Word Meanings - HOMAGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• VASSALESS
  A female vassal. Spenser.
• HOMAGE
  A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. 2. Respect or reverential
• VASSAL
  The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. Burrill. 2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. "The vassals of his anger." Milton. Rear vassal,
• VASSALAGE
  1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory. 2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks. 3. A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages."
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• HOMAGEABLE
  Subject to homage. Howell.
• VASSALRY
  The body of vassals.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• HOMAGER
  One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. Bacon.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• ENVASSAL
  To make a vassal of.
• CHOMAGE
  Stoppage; cessation . 2. A standing still or idle .
• TITANOTHERIUM
  A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.