Definition of pledge

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Pledge (n.) A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.

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Commitment :: Commitment (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged..
Security :: Security (n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge..
Hand :: Hand (v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
Borough :: Borough (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.
Treacherous :: Treacherous (a.) Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
Lumber :: Lumber (n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn..
Pledger :: Pledger (n.) One who pledges.
Oppignerate :: Oppignerate (v. i.) To pledge; to pawn.
Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Impawn :: Impawn (v. t.) To put in pawn; to pledge.
Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
Plight :: Plight (n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
Earnest :: Earnest (n.) Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale..
Teetotaler :: Teetotaler (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..
Gage :: Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
Compromise :: Compromise (n.) To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion..
Burghbrech :: Burghbrech (n.) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
Demivill :: Demivill (n.) A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges..
Redeemable :: Redeemable (a.) Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable..
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