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place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"

a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.

place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"

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.

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.

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.

To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.

To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.

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.

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.

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.

To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.

To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.

A standard of measure; a measuring rod.

To measure; to find out, as the contents of any receptacle. Also, gauge.

A promise or agreement; a security; a kind of plum; a challenge to fight; a glove, cap, or the like thrown on the ground as a challenge to fight.

A pledge: security for the fulfillment of a promise: something thrown down as a challenge, as a glove.

To bind by pledge or security.

To measure. Same as GAUGE.

To bind by pledge.

To measure; estimate.

An instrument for measuring capacity or dimensions; a standard.

To give as a pledge; pawn; wager.

Something given or thrown down as security, as for a combat; a pledge; a challenge.

A pledge; something given as a security, which is forfeited on non-fulfilment of the pledge; something thrown down as a challenge, to be taken up by the one who accepts it.

A measure or rule of measuring; a standard.

A variety of plum.

To pledge; to give as a pledge; to bind by pledge; to engage.

To measure; to gauge. See Gauge.

A variety of plum.

A pledge or security; a glove or cap, &c., thrown to the ground as a challenge to combat.

To pledge; to wager.

In weather-gage, the windward of a ship.

To measure-see gauge.

A standard of measure; an instrument for determining the dimensions, capacity, or force of anything, as a gauge for the thickness of wire. [Old Fr.]

n. [French, Spanish, Portuguese, Gothic] A pledge or pawn; security;—a challenge to combat; a glove, a gauntlet, or the like, east on the ground by the challenger, and taken up by the accepter of the challenge.

n. A measure or standard.

A pledge, a pawn, a caution.