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Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger.

To dissatisfy. [Obs.]

Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers. [Obs.] Bacon.

Neglect or failure to pay.

To pay too much to; to reward too highly.

To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.

Payment in advance.

One who pays rates or taxes.

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak.

Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.

The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor.

To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

A spay.

A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad.

One who is assessed and pays a tax.

To pay inadequately.

To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment. Shak.

To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.] Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. Shak.

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier.

An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.