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Vill

Vill \Vill\, n. [OF. ville, vile, a village, F. ville a town, city. See Villa.] A small collection of houses; a village. ``Every manor, town, or vill.''
--Sir M. Hale.

Not should e'er the crested fowl From thorp or vill his matins sound for me.
--Wordsworth.

Note: A word of various significations in English, law; as, a manor; a tithing; a town; a township; a parish; a part of a parish; a village. The original meaning of vill, in England, seems to have been derived from the Roman sense of the term villa, a single country residence or farm; a manor. Later, the term was applied only to a collection of houses more than two, and hence came to comprehend towns. Burrill. The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I., mentions entire-vills, demivills, and hamlets.

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Etymology 1 n. the smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish Etymology 2

vb. (eye dialect of will English)

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Vill

Vill is a term used in English history to describe a land unit which might otherwise be described as a parish, manor or tithing.

The term is used in the period immediately after the Norman conquest of the 11th century and into the late medieval era. Land units in the Domesday Book are frequently referred to as vills, although the term is not used in Domesday itself. The vill is a geographical subdivision of the hundred and county.

Traditionally, among legal historians, a vill referred to the tract of land of a rural community, whereas ' township' was referred to when the tax and legal administration of a rural community was meant.

An unfree inhabitant of a vill was called a villein.

The word would later develop into ville and village.

Usage examples of "vill".

Unless my topesheet goes pack on me, for deh first dime in forty years dere vill pe a record clip pefore a veek from to-tay.

You vill collect the coffers of gold, but you vill give them to Count Emich of Leiningen instead of to Peter the Hermit!

But now ve can afford skoff, he vill eat ten or tventy pounds of meat each day.

Herr, und sit down, I vill chust rink up the Yard and inqvire vot sort uff record.

If to read the letter you vill, you vill findt vords of Arthur that say ve are free to go to serve Brian VIII, but only if to approof of our inclusion first you do.

Was this right appurtenant to the manor, or was it also appendant to a frank tenement in a particular vill?

It ish against my rules, and if I proke tem for you I vill have to do so for every body.

Still, I should varn you, Sheriff, that I vill hold you personally responsible if anyzhing goes missing.

Velcome vill be even your coward's blade, for liefer I vould be dead than alife mitout mein schiffe.

Those tied to vills and burgages in Caladhria and Lescar may well have yielded to the invaders rather than see homes and livelihoods burned over their heads but the herders between the Dalas and the Drax could vanish into the distance whenever the cohorts advanced, returning under the cover of night to strike at their tormentors.

The Flight Master cackled cheerfully, "They say that they vill caponize us.

Vill TEMPLE ENTERED THE DINING-ROOM FROM THE KITCHEN, HER face fixed in a cringing, placative expression.

Then I was sent a package of letters from Bukarin, from the daughter of a man Viller had corresponded with for some time, a doctor of philosophy at the Scholars’.

Dere vill be morrr mur-derts, and morrr afder dat, Choo-dee, we are all goink zu haff sotch fun - Spiegleman quoted this junk to me!

But you vill get a mild shock 'or two vhen you try to step off der edge of der island.