Definition of pawn

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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..

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Spat :: Spat (v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn..
Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Impawn :: Impawn (v. t.) To put in pawn; to pledge.
Roe :: Roe (n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male..
Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Sea Trout :: Sea trout () Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout..
Uncle :: Uncle (n.) A pawnbroker.
Pawnbroker :: Pawnbroker (n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Pawnbroking :: Pawnbroking (n.) The business of a pawnbroker.
Piece :: Piece (n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn..
Queen :: Queen (v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn..
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
Empawn :: Empawn (v. t.) To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn.
Pawning :: Pawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paw.
Impignoration :: Impignoration (n.) The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.
Shotten :: Shotten (n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring..
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..
Mushroom :: Mushroom (n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn..
Run :: Run (n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning..
Pawnee :: Pawnee (n.) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
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