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Engagement :: Engagement (n.) That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office..

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

Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged..

Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

Pledgeless :: Pledgeless (a.) Having no pledge.

Pledged :: Pledged (imp. & p. p.) of Pledg.

Pledgery :: Pledgery (n.) A pledging; suretyship.

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement..

Pledgee :: Pledgee (n.) The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered..

Frankpledge :: Frankpledge (n.) The tithing itself.

Borwe :: Borwe (n.) Pledge; borrow.

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges..

Faith :: Faith (n.) Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith..

Plight :: Plight (n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

Oppignerate :: Oppignerate (v. i.) To pledge; to pawn.

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..

Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes..

Impone :: Impone (v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge.

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