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Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft.

Disarranged; rumpled. [Colloq. U.S.]

A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

ld to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge. That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations. Landor.

By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor.

To pledge; to pawn. [Obs.] Bacon.

To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. Shak. Father, thy word is passed. Milton.

rd or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment 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.

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

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

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

A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. "Peopled heaven with angels." Dryden. As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton .

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.]

The act of pledging or pawning.

Pledging, pawning. [R.]

A pledge or pawn.

Pimpled.