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ayment 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.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.

To put in pawn; to pledge. Shak.

See Supawn. [Local, U.S.]

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.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

globular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.

One of the ova or eggs of a fish. Travis. In berry, containing ova or spawn.

The female salmon in the spawning season.

nsurance broker, one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire. -- Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker. -- Real estate broker, one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage. -- Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. -- Stock br…

Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.] Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.