[f. FEU sb.] trans. To grant (land) upon feu. Also to feu off, out.
1717. De Foe, Mem. Ch. Scot., II. 23. Under this Model the Gentlemen retained to themselves the Revenues of the Church, either in Temporalities feu’d to themselves, as they call it in Scotland, or Pensions and Payments which they obtained fron the Church-Men.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 50. When a great baron in the feudal times had occasion to borrow money, he had recourse to wadsetts, or feued off a part of his property at a quit-rent, which was greater or less, according to the amount of the premium that was paid in hand.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., xiv. (1857), 301. A little bit of ground, which he had failed in getting feued out for buildings.
1866. Miss Mulock, Noble Life, vii. 109. To find out the exact extent and divisions of his property, and to whom it was feued.
