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Definition of ransom

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Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit..

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Redemptory :: Redemptory (a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.

Ransomer :: Ransomer (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.

Geld :: Geld (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..

Transsummer :: Transsummer (n.) See Transom, 2..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on..

Ransoming :: Ransoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ranso.

Transenne :: Transenne (n.) A transom.

Ransomed :: Ransomed (imp. & p. p.) of Ranso.

Ransomable :: Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

Ransomless :: Ransomless (a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment..

Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.

Binding :: Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

Raunsoun :: Raunsoun (n.) Ransom.

Transom :: Transom (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.