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dertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage. "I am Grumio's pledge." Shak.

The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.

Having no pledge.

One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee.

One who pledges.

A pledging; suretyship. [Obs.]

A small plug. [Prov. End.]

Prior knowledge.

A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.

Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.

A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.

Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature. Dryden.

Not acknowledged or recognized. [Obs.] For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.

Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

sibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

ding to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

One who acknowledges no head or superior. Dr. Gauden.

To acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] Chaucer. To be acknown (often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.