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Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch..

Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

Sepawn :: Sepawn (n.) See Supawn.

Smelt :: Smelt (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste..

Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..

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..

Pawnable :: Pawnable (a.) Capable of being pawned.

Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel..

Spawner :: Spawner (n.) Whatever produces spawn of any kind.

Lumber :: Lumber (n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn..

Sea Trout :: Sea trout () Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout..

Pignerate :: Pignerate (v. t.) to receive in pawn, as a pawnbroker does..

Lombardeer :: Lombardeer (n.) A pawnbroker.

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.

Spent :: Spent (a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.

Ruche :: Ruche (n.) A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn..

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

Mont De Piete :: Mont de piete () One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house..

Run :: Run (n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning..

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