gage vb. (3 a sense peculiar to S.)
1.
to pledge, stake,
risk
Ham. I. i. 91
“a moiety competent Was
g-d by our king,”
Lucr. 144
“one for all, or all for
one we gage.”
2.
to bind as by oath or
promise
1H4 I. iii. 173
“Did gage them both in
an unjust behalf,”
Troil. V. i. 46.
3.
to entangle “in”
Mer.V. I. i. 131*
“the great debts Wherein my
time . . . Hath left me gaged.”
