A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done
or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife
between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention
satisfied only by bloodshed.

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.