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

Wagering :: Wagering (a.) Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.

Wager :: Wager (v. t.) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event..

Compurgator :: Compurgator (n.) One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) A wager.

Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank..

Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager..

Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.

Set :: Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture..

Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

Lay :: Lay (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.

Revie :: Revie (v. t.) To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager..

Wager :: Wager (v. i.) To make a bet; to lay a wager.

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..

Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..

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