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Bond :: Bond (n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condi

Possess :: Possess (v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively..

Ante :: Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins..

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Repeat :: Repeat (n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance..

Presage :: Presage (v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Prenominate :: Prenominate (v. t.) To forename; to name beforehand; to tell by name beforehand.

Anteal :: Anteal (a.) Being before, or in front..

Preindispose :: Preindispose (v. t.) To render indisposed beforehand.

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Predestine :: Predestine (v. t.) To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.

Want :: Want (v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place..

Prospective :: Prospective (n.) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect..

Theretofore :: Theretofore (adv.) Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

Set :: Set (v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance..

Premonstrate :: Premonstrate (v. t.) To show beforehand; to foreshow.

Precedency :: Precedency (n.) The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another..

Trial :: Trial (n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue..

Counterguard :: Counterguard (n.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire..

Foremeant :: Foremeant (a.) Intended beforehand; premeditated.

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