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yment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i.e., interest]. Bacon.

Capable of being pawned.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

The business of a pawnbroker.

One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.

A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

ndalus, Palæmon, Palæmonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn in Palæmon serratus.

The quality or state of being raw.

A merganser. [Prov. Eng.]

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

See Supawn. [Local, U.S.]

A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.

To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.

A mature female fish. The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. Walton.

Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. [Written also sepawn, sepon, and suppawn.] [Local, U.S.]

See Supawn.

The quality or state of being tawny.

Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.