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fee

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noun

a charge or payment for professional services:
a doctor's fee.
Synonyms: honorarium, emolument, salary, stipend
a sum paid or charged for a privilege:
an admission fee.
a charge allowed by law for the service of a public officer.
Law.
1. an estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs fee simple or limited to a particular class of heirs fee tail.
2. an inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
3. a territory held in fee.
a gratuity; tip.

, feed, fee·ing.

fee

/ fiː /

a payment asked by professional people or public servants for their services
school fees
a doctor's fee
a charge made for a privilege
an entrance fee
property law
1. an interest in land capable of being inherited See fee simple fee tail
2. the land held in fee
(in feudal Europe) the land granted by a lord to his vassal
an obsolete word for a gratuity
in fee
1. law (of land) in absolute ownership
2. in complete subjection

Origin of fee¹

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French fie, variant of fief fief. See feudal

Origin of fee¹

C14: from Old French fie , of Germanic origin; see fief

The sporangia have a ring of about twenty articulations: Fée says there are vittate or knotted hairs growing among them.

According to Fée, when placed in water they burst and dissolve into excessively minute sporules.

The articulations of the sporangia are said by Fée to be twenty-eight to thirty-two, and more numerous than in any other fern.

But at first they took Nicolette for a fée, such a beauty shone so brightly from her, and lit up all the forest.

La Fée aux Miettes is at once an awful and a delightful example.

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