Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Feud"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Feud \Feud\, n. [OE. feide, AS. f?h?, fr. f[=a]h hostile; akin
to OHG. f?hida, G. fehde, Sw. fejd, D. feide; prob. akin to
E. fiend. See Foe.]
1. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts,
done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and
all his race.
2. A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife
between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred;
contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several
tribes and kindreds. --Purchas.
Syn: Affray; fray; broil; contest; dispute; strife.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Feud \Feud\, n. [LL. feudum, feodum prob. of same origin as E.
fief. See {Fief}, {Fee}.] (Law)
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service;
the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other
immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the
profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such
duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the
property of the soil always remaining in the lord or
superior; a fief; a fee.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
feud
n : a bitter quarrel between two parties
v : carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for
years"
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