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to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.

oose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage. "Who boast'st release from hell." Milton.

A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc.,, which represent government indebtedness.

ain; to put on board of a vessel a second time; to send on a second voyage; as, to reship bonded merchandise.

To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.

use." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19.

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare.

To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to. [POetic] He him by all the bonds of love besought To safe-conduct his love. Spenser.

The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. To earn salvation for the sons of men. Milton. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 10.

One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. [Obs.] "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.

crip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

Writing; document; scroll. [Obs.] "Of every scrit and bond." Chaucer.

a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal. Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond Thou but offend;st thy lungs to speak so loud. Shak.

An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.

One in a state of subjection or bondage. Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. Deut. v. 15.

or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service. The Lord shall give thee rest . . . from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. Isa. xiv. 3.

The quality or state of being servile; servileness. To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.

to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence. You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude. Shak. A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goeSouth.