Definition of ransom

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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..

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Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..
Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo..
Rescat :: Rescat (n.) Ransom; release.
Transom :: Transom (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.
Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.
Rescat :: Rescat (v. t.) To ransom; to release; to rescue.
Transom :: Transom (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
Ransom :: 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..
Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer..
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..
Ransomable :: Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.
Transsummer :: Transsummer (n.) See Transom, 2..
Ransoming :: Ransoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ranso.
Ransomer :: Ransomer (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.
Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on..
Binding :: Binding (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel..
Raunsoun :: Raunsoun (n.) Ransom.
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.
Ransomed :: Ransomed (imp. & p. p.) of Ranso.
Redemptory :: Redemptory (a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.
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