GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found 3 definitions 

  1.       

    Wage , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waging .] [OE. wagen, OF. wagier, gagier, to pledge, promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr. LL. wadium a pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. wadi a pledge, gawadjōn to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager.  See Wed, and cf. Gage.]
    1913 Webster
    1. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
      Hakluyt.

      1913 Webster
      My life I never but as a pawn
      To wage against thy enemies.
      Shak.

      1913 Webster
    2. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.  “Too weak to wage an instant trial with the king.”  
      Shak.

      1913 Webster
      To wake and wage a danger profitless.
      Shak.

      1913 Webster
    3. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
      1913 Webster
       [He pondered] which of all his sons was fit
      To reign and wage immortal war with wit.
      Dryden.

      1913 Webster
      The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
      I. Taylor.

      1913 Webster
    4. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.  [Obs.]  “Thou . . . must wage thy works for wealth.”  
      Spenser.

      1913 Webster
    5. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.  [Obs.]
      1913 Webster
      Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.
      Holinshed.

      1913 Webster
      I would have them waged for their labor.
      Latimer.

      1913 Webster
    6. (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of.
      Burrill.

      1913 Webster
      To wage battle (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat.  See Wager of battel, under Wager, n. Burrill. -- To wage one's law (Law), to give security to make one's law.  See Wager of law, under Wager, n.
      1913 Webster
    
      
    
  2.       

    Wage, v. i. To bind one's self; to engage.  [Obs.]
    1913 Webster
    
      
    
  3.       

    Wage, n. [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement.  See Wage, v. t. ]
    1913 Webster
    1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.  [Obs.] “That warlike wage.”  
      Spenser.

      1913 Webster
    2. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural.  See Wages.  “My day's wage.” Sir W. Scott. “At least I earned my wage.” Thackeray. “Pay them a wage in advance.” J. Morley. “The wages of virtue.” Tennyson.
      1913 Webster
      By Tom Thumb, a fairy page,
      He sent it, and doth him engage,
      By promise of a mighty wage,
      It secretly to carry.
      Drayton.

      1913 Webster
      Our praises are our wages.
      Shak.

      1913 Webster
      Existing legislation on the subject of wages.
      Encyc. Brit.

      1913 Webster
      ☞ Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc.
      1913 Webster
      Board wages. See under 1st Board.
      1913 Webster
      Syn. -- Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.
      1913 Webster

Last match results