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To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. Johnson.

To make a petition or solicitation.

epeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden. He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak.

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. Herbert.

Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak.

Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.

To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. Bp. Rainbow.

The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship. Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. Pope.

and tags given to contributors to wear as an evidence of their having contributed. Such solicitation is now subject to legal restriction in various places.

To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship. Thy virtue wan me; with virtue preserve me. Sir P. Sidney. She is a woman; therefore to be won. Shak.