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imp. & p. p. of Plead [Colloq.] Spenser.

ndertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage. "I am Grumio's pledge." Shak.

The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.

Having no pledge.

One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee.

One who pledges.

A pledging; suretyship. [Obs.]

A small plug. [Prov. End.]

Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.

Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.

Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.

Possessed of noble or honorable principles.

To pledge. Sir W. Scott.

To pledge mutually. [R.]

Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.

Having pimples. Johnson.

Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.

A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.