Word Meanings - VAVASORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.

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• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• VAVASORY
  The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• VAVASOR
  The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron. Burrill. "A worthy vavasour." Chaucer. Vavasours subdivide again to vassals,
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• LANDSTORM
  See VARNPLIGTIGE
• LANDSLIP; LANDSLIDE
  1. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. 2. The land which slips down.
• TENURE
  The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. Note: Tenure is inseparable from the idea of property in land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property
• LANDSCAPIST
  A painter of landscapes.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• COEQUALITY
  The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• BAD LANDS
  Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the
• LIEBERKUHN'S GLANDS; LIEBERKUEHN'S GLANDS
  The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.
• TILLANDSIA
  A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great
• NONTENURE
  A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.