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Fairy wages?
Answer for the clue "Fairy wages? ", 3 letters:
fee
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context feudal law English) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. 2 (context legal English) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Middle English, representing the merger or mutual influence of two words, one from Old English, one from an Old French form of the same Germanic word, and both ultimately from a PIE root meaning "cattle."\n \nThe Old English word is feoh "livestock, cattle; ...
Usage examples of fee.
I can assure you I have quite a lot at my disposal all kinds of different spells fee faw fums, mumbo jumbos, abraxas, love potions, he glanced quickly at the queen here and added, though I see you have no need of the last of those, having a very beautiful wife whom you love to distraction.
A plant of Drosera, with the edges of its leaves curled inwards, so as to form a temporary stomach, with the glands of the closely inflected tentacles pouring forth their acid secretion, which dissolves animal matter, afterwards to be absorbed, may be said to feed like an animal.
Some offworld accessor noticed them and offered Earthservice a repro fee, or so I was told.
Two, you take me to Ty and feed me Adeem on a plate with mashed potatoes and I let you live.
Washington Street and indisputably the biggest alienist in the world and certainly the only honest one since he never takes a fee for testifying, and never gives an interview to a newspaper.
Perhaps Anne had paid her fee for some kind of miracle cure for her waiflike, nearly anorexic body.
Just then the marquis came in, saying he would give me my revenge and without answering I went downstairs as if to come back again, but I ran out of the inn, got into my carriage, and drove off, promising a good fee to the postillion if he would put his horses at a gallop.
Six billion mouths to feed on a world with shrinking arable land and resources.
The power of the spell flattened the enormous arachnid, opened its exoskeleton, and a host of smaller spiders leaped upon it to feed.
Chancellor announced that each inceptor would be required to pay the ordinary fee of thirty shillings and a pair of buckskin gloves for each bedel, or, in lieu of gloves, five shillings to be divided among the bedels.
Members were blackballed without refund of fees if they were connected to the slightest public mention, and the enormous fees they paid, as well as our investigative process, thoroughly eliminated reporter spies.
Corpus Christi was founded in 1352 because fees for celebrating masses for the dead were so inflated after the plague that two guilds of Cambridge decided to establish a college whose scholars, as clerics, would be required to pray for their deceased members.
The codicil means that you and I are the last of the entailed line to the fee simple, so that the Mompessons now only hold a base-fee to the property.
As elsewhere in Europe, there was a deep craving to detemporalize the Church and clear the way to God of all the money and fees and donations and oblations that cluttered it.
Barely making a living in his first three years after graduating from one of the night schools that taught law, he took the case, hoping for no more than his fee of one third of the fifty grand Mrs Diep wanted.