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in hand, to concern or affect one. -- To strike hands, to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior. -- To take in hand. (a) To attempt or undertake. (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand. -- To wash the hands of, to disclaim or renounce interest in, or responsibility fo…

To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

pectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from; as, the creditor may look to surety for payment. "Look unto me, and be ye saved." Is. xlv. 22. -- To look up, to search for or find out by looking; as, to look up the items of an account. -- To look up to, to respect; to regard with deference.…

Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.

A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

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

A pledging; suretyship. [Obs.]

A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.

and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety.

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

ment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

ffer; to feel the sting of evil. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.

The act of becoming surety for another.

One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.

A making sure; surety. [Obs.] Every surement and every bond. Chaucer.

Suretyship. Prov. xi. 15.

A witness. [Obs.] Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed. Ld. Berners.

To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety. But on mine honor dare I undertake For good lord Titus' innocence in all. Shak.

e future world; the heathen world. One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety. Shak. Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end -- for so they counted Britain. Milton.