feodary

English

Noun

feodary (plural feodaries)

1. An accomplice.
   • William Shakespeare,

     Art thou a feodary for this act?

2. (UK, law) An ancient officer of the Court of Wards.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “feodary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• forayed, foreday