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Desponsory :: Desponsory (n.) A written pledge of marriage.

Demivill :: Demivill (n.) A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges..

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..

Cautionary :: Cautionary (a.) Given as a pledge or as security.

Gage :: Gage (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage..

Engagement :: Engagement (n.) The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife..

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..

Disgage :: Disgage (v. t.) To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.

Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation..

Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise..

Pawnee :: Pawnee (n.) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.

Propine :: Propine (n.) A pledge.

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..

Impignorate :: Impignorate (v. t.) To pledge or pawn.

Penicil :: Penicil (n.) A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

Frankpledge :: Frankpledge (n.) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety..

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

Tithing :: Tithing (n.) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary..

Gage :: Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) To secure performance of, as by a pledge..

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