Found 2 items, similar to Gage.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: gage
gage
n 1: street names for marijuana [syn:
pot,
grass,
green goddess
,
dope,
weed,
sess,
sens,
smoke,
skunk,
locoweed,
Mary Jane]
2: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a
quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of
rain etc. [syn:
gauge]
v : place a bet on;
“Which horse are you backing?”;
“I'm betting
on the new horse” [syn:
bet on,
back,
stake,
game,
punt]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Gage
Gage
\Gage\ (g[=a]j), n. [So called because an English family
named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last
century.]
A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage,
frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness
to the greengage. See
Greengage.
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Gage
\Gage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Gaged (g[=a]jd); p. pr & vb.
n.
Gaging (g[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. gager. See
Gage, n.,
a pledge.]
1. To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act;
to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. [Obs.]
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A moiety competent
Was gaged by our king. --Shak.
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2. To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
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Great debts
Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal,
Hath left me gaged. --Shak.
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Gage
\Gage\ (g[=a]j), n. [F. gage, LL. gadium, wadium; of German
origin; cf. Goth. wadi, OHG. wetti, weti, akin to E. wed. See
Wed, and cf.
Wage, n.]
1. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a
security for the performance of some act by the person
depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
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Nor without gages to the needy lend. --Sandys.
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2. A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a
challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of
the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
“There I throw my
gage.” --Shak.
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Gage
\Gage\, n.
A measure or standard. See
Gauge, n.
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Gage
\Gage\, v. t.
To measure. See
Gauge, v. t.
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You shall not gage me
By what we do to-night. --Shak.
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