1. (n.) A feudal tenant; a slave; a bondman\.

2. (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.

3. (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

4. (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

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