Word Meanings - WED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pledge; a pawn. Gower. Piers Plowman. Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed . Chaucer. (more info) wetti, G. wette a wager, Icel. veedh a pledge, Sw. vad a wager, an appeal, Goth. wadi a pledge, Lith. vaduti to redeem , LL. vadium, L. vas,

Additional info about word: WED

A pledge; a pawn. Gower. Piers Plowman. Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed . Chaucer. (more info) wetti, G. wette a wager, Icel. veedh a pledge, Sw. vad a wager, an appeal, Goth. wadi a pledge, Lith. vaduti to redeem , LL. vadium, L. vas, vadis, bail, security, vadimonium security, and Gr.

Related words: (words related to WED)

• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• WAGERING
  Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. See Wager policy, under Policy.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• APPEAL
  appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  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;
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• WETTISH
  Somewhat wet; moist; humid.
• WAGERER
  One who wagers, or lays a bet.
• APPEALABLE
  1. Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. 2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter.
• REDEEMER
  1. One who redeems. 2. Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• VADIUM
  Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage. Vadium vivum Etym: , a living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.
• APPEALING
  That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• WAGER
  A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. Bouvier. Note: At common law a wager is considered as
• REDEEMABLENESS
  The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
• PLEDGET
  A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
• PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
  1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.
• ALIETHMOID; ALIETHMOIDAL
  Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• DOWAGERISM
  The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.