wage (the foll. are all the S. uses)
2.
to venture, hazard
John I. i. 266,
1H4 IV. iv. 20
“too weak To an
instant trial,”
Oth. I. iii. 30, Ant. III. vii. 31.
3.
to carry on (war)
Ant. III. iv. 3; also
intr.
Lr. II. iv. 212
“To wage against the
enmity o' the air.”
4.
to contend equally,
be equal
Ant. V. i. 31
“His taints and honours
Wag'd equal with him”
(F2
“way”; mod. edd. “weigh†,
weigh'd†”),
Per. IV. ii. 34
“the commodity wages not
with the danger.”
5.
to remunerate (as
with wages) Cor. V. v. [vi.] 40 “He
wag'd me with his countenance.”
