"Gage" is a word in ENGLISH
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage,
frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the
greengage. See Greengage.
A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge
to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a
challenge; a defiance.
To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to
wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security
for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and
forfeited by nonperformance; security.
A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Pledge; security.
Read the complete definitionSomething deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
Read the complete definitionGiven as a pledge or as security.
Read the complete definitionCollateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
Read the complete definitionThat which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; …
Read the complete definitionTo seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of …
Read the complete definitionTo take as a pledge prop-erty of another, and keep the same until he performs his obligation or until the …
Read the complete definitionThe taking a personal chat-tel out of the possession of a wrong-doer Into the custody of the party injured, to …
Read the complete definitionfiánza - (Sp.) Bail, surety, security, guarantee, pledge.
Read the complete definitionA person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of …
Read the complete definitionOne who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, consisting of the chattels of a person unable to obtain a personal …
Read the complete definitionA guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance.
Read the complete definitionLat. In the civil law. Things carried in and brought in. Articles brought into a hired tenement by the hirer …
Read the complete definitionpalíg-on - Caus. of líg-on—to be firm, etc. Also: Assurance, surety, bail, pledge, security, bond, confirmation.
Read the complete definitionAnything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See …
Read the complete definitionTo give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to …
Read the complete definitionOne who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Read the complete definitionOne or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
Read the complete definitionOne who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
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