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Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) A hypothecation without transfer of possession.

Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder..

Compromise :: Compromise (n.) To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion..

Pignoration :: Pignoration (n.) The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made..

Friborgh :: Friborgh (n.) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge..

Penicil :: Penicil (n.) A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

Frankpledge :: Frankpledge (n.) The tithing itself.

Bet :: Bet (v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

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..

Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes..

Tithing :: Tithing (n.) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary..

Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation..

Sponson :: Sponsional (a.) Of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible.

Pledgeor :: Pledgeor (n.) Alt. of Pledgo.

Hostage :: Hostage (n.) A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released..

Pledged :: Pledged (imp. & p. p.) of Pledg.

Band :: Band (v. t.) Pledge; security.

Teetotaler :: Teetotaler (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

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