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VILLENAGE

Volume 3 · 86 words · 1771 Edition

a kind of ancient tenure, whereby the tenant was bound to do such services as the lord commanded, or such as were fit for villains or bondmen to perform.

Villi, among botanists, a kind of down, like coarse hair, with which some trees abound.

Villoso, or Villoso, something abounding with villi, or fibres like coarse hairs: such is one of the coats of the stomach.

Vinalia, in Roman antiquity, a festival on the ninth of the kalends of May, in honour both of Jupiter and Venus.