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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weregild  \Were"gild`\,  n.  [AS.  wergild;  wer  a  man,  value  set  on 
  a  man's  life  +  gild  payment  of  money;  akin  to  G.  wehrgeld. 
  [root]285.  See  {Were}  a  man,  and  {Geld},  n.]  (O.  Eng.  Law) 
  The  price  of  a  man's  head;  a  compensation  paid  of  a  man 
  killed,  partly  to  the  king  for  the  loss  of  a  subject,  partly 
  to  the  lord  of  a  vassal,  and  partly  to  the  next  of  kin.  It 
  was  paid  by  the  murderer.  [Written  also  {weregeld}, 
  {weregelt},  etc.]  --Blackstone. 

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