Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on..

Ransomable :: Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

Ransomed :: Ransomed (imp. & p. p.) of Ranso.

Ransomer :: Ransomer (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.

Ransoming :: Ransoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ranso.

Ransomless :: Ransomless (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

Transom :: Transom (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion..

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer..

Transom :: Transom (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.

Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

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