Definition of pledge

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Pledge (n.) A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage..

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Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piete..
Treacherous :: Treacherous (a.) Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
Pledge :: Pledge (n.) A hypothecation without transfer of possession.
Compromit :: Compromit (n.) To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.
Undertaking :: Undertaking (n.) A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
Gage :: Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
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..
Hand :: Hand (v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
Engage :: Engage (v. i.) To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
Vadium :: Vadium (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
Gage :: Gage (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage..
Security :: Security (n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge..
Propine :: Propine (v. t.) To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup..
Interpledge :: Interpledge (v. t.) To pledge mutually.
Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..
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..
Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A string of oakum used in calking.
Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Wadset :: Wadset (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.
Mortgage :: Mortgage (n.) State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage..
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