Word Meanings - IMPLEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pledge. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to IMPLEDGE)

• 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.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• PLEDGET
  A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• FRANKPLEDGE
  A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free