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our law, where an hypothecation, in the strict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee. Story.

One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

ily imp their wings with other men's plumes. Fuller. Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled wing. Holmes. Help, ye tart satirists, to imp my rage With all the scorpions that should whip this age. Cleveland.

To put in pawn; to pledge. Shak.

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.] Laing.

The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. [Obs.] Bailey.

To stake; to wager; to pledge. [Obs.] Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. Shak.

To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.

A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [Obs.] The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection. Mickle. Accident insurance, insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person. -- Endowment insurance or assurance, a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon w…

Rigorous; severe; exacting; as, an ironclad oath or pledge. [Colloq.]

Coupled together.

Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity. "Laical literature." Lowell. An unprincipled, unedified, and laic rabble. Milton.

To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. "Lame of one leg." Arbuthnot. "Lame in both his feet." 2 Sam. ix. 13. "He fell, and became lame." 2 Sam. iv. 4.

An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.

itution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

One who adopts the principles of Machiavel; a cunning and unprincipled politician.

etching ground, or on the naked copper, the effect after biting being very similar to stippled lines.

grinding grain or other substance. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut. xxiv. 6.

State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage. Chattel mortgage. See under Chattel. -- To foreclose a mortgage. See under Foreclose. -- Mortgage deed (Law), a deed given by way of mortgage.