Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old English law, the offense of harboring a fugitive, the penalty attached to which was one of the rights of the crown.
- noun An asylum for outlaws.
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And ill beseems your rank and birth To make your towers a flemens-firth.
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