Definition of pawn

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Pawn (n.) See Pan, the masticatory..

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Impawn :: Impawn (v. t.) To put in pawn; to pledge.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Wed :: Wed (n.) A pledge; a pawn.
Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..
Pannage :: Pannage (n.) The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns..
Peon :: Peon (n.) See 2d Pawn.
Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..
Gambit :: Gambit (n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position..
Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Piece :: Piece (n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn..
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1..
Wichitas :: Wichitas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.
Impawning :: Impawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impaw.
Pawner :: Pawner (n.) Alt. of Pawno.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do..
Blackfish :: Blackfish (n.) The female salmon in the spawning season.
Aeration :: Aeration (n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc..
Pawning :: Pawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paw.
Gage :: Gage (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
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