1. A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege: a license fee; tuition fees.
2. A charge for professional services: a surgeon's fee.
3. A tip; a gratuity.
4. Law An inherited or heritable estate in land.
5. 1. In feudal law, an estate in land granted by a lord to his vassal on condition of homage and service. Also called feud², fief.
   2. The land so held.

1. To give a tip to.
2. Scots To hire.

Word History: It is possible to see the idea of money taking hold of the human mind by studying a few words that express the notion of wealth or goods. The word fee now denotes money paid or received for a service rendered. Fee comes from Old English feoh, which has three meanings, all equally ancient: "cattle, livestock"; "goods, possessions, movable property"; "money." The Germanic form behind the Old English is *fehu, which derives by Grimm's Law from Indo-European *peku-, "cattle." *Fehu is therefore a cognate of Latin pecu, "cattle," also a direct descendant of Indo-European *peku-. Latin pecu has several derivatives that ultimately were borrowed into English. One was pecūnia, "money," the source of our word pecuniary. Another was pecūliāris, "pertaining to one's pecūlium or property," the source of our word peculiar. Finally, our word peculator comes from yet a third derivative, pecūlātor, "embezzler of public money, peculator."

1. 1. To give food to; supply with nourishment: feed the children.
   2. To provide as food or nourishment: fed fish to the cat.
   3. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.
   4. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.
   5. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
   6. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
   7. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.
   8. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
   9. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
2. 1. To serve as food for: The turkey is large enough to feed a dozen.
   2. To produce food for: The valley feeds an entire county.
   3. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
   4. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
   5. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.
   6. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
   7. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
3. 1. To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation: feed logs to a fire; feed data into a computer.
   2. To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation: Melting snow feeds the reservoirs.
   3. To distribute (a local radio or television broadcast) to a larger audience or group of receivers by way of a network or satellite.
   4. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
   5. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
4. 1. To minister to; gratify: fed their appetite for the morbid.
   2. To support or promote; encourage: His unexplained absences fed our suspicions.
5. To supply as a cue: feed lines to an actor.
6. Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance.

1. To eat: pigs feeding at a trough.
2. To be nourished or supported: an ego that feeds on flattery.
3. 1. To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.
   2. To be channeled; flow: This road feeds into the freeway.

1. 1. Food for animals or birds.
   2. The amount of such food given at one time.
   3. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
   4. The act of supplying such material.
   5. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
   6. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
   7. The transmission or conveyance of a local radio or television program, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
   8. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
2. Informal A meal, especially a large one.
3. The act of eating.
4. 1. Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
   2. The act of supplying such material.
   3. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
   4. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
   5. The transmission or conveyance of a local radio or television program, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
   6. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
5. 1. An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
   2. The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
   3. The transmission or conveyance of a local radio or television program, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
   4. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
6. 1. The transmission or conveyance of a local radio or television program, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
   2. A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
7. Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance.