hostage:
1.
security or pledge
given to enemies, &c., for the fulfilment of an
undertaking Tit. IV. iv. 104, Cym. IV. ii. 185; a
person thus given and held in pledge Cor. I. x. 29.
2.
(in a gen. sense)
pledge, security
Troil. III. ii. 114
“You know now your h-s;
your uncle's word, and my firm
faith.”
