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Webster 1913 Edition
Vill
Vill
,Noun.
A small collection of houses; a village.
“Every manor, town, or vill.” Sir M. Hale.
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vill
his matins sound for me. Wordsworth.
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vill
VILL
,Noun.
The statute of Exeter, 14 Edward I mentions entire-vills, demi-vills, and hamlets.