A pledge; pawn; security. He that lawith at a mynstrels worde gevith to hym a wedde.Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 31.Passage shalt thou pai here under the grene-wode tre, Or els thou shalt leve a wedde with me. Playe of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 427).There's nane that gaes by Carterhaugh But maun leave him a wad. Either gowd rings, or green mantles. The Young Tamlane (Child's Ballads, I. 115)!
To wed in pledge; in pawn. A Kyng of Fraunce boughte theise Relikes somtyme of the Jewes, to whom the Emperour had leyde hem to wedde, for a gret summe of Sylvre. Mandeville, Travels, p. 13.Let him be war, his nekke lith to wedde.Chaucer, Knight's Tale, l. 360.My londes beth set to wedde, Robyn, Untyll a certayne daye. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 54).
His friends urged him to wed, and in 1753 he married Mlle. Basile-Genevieve-Susanne d'Aine, daughter of âMaitre Marius-Jean-Baptiste Nicolas d'Aine, conseiller au Roi en son grand conseil, associe externe de l'Acad. des sciences et belles letters de Prusse.â
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Baron d'Holbach
Between the bride-prices he got for the ones that wanted to wed, and the officer's price he got for the ones that went into the armed services, Gel'vadera was a rich man.
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Werehunter
That was a state that had no parallel in the Sunlord's hierarchy; although Sun-priests were not encouraged to wed, they were not denied that state either.
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Storm Breaking
At one time when those of the nobility were to wed, there had been much blood shed in sacrifices.
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The Eternal Mercenary
He is two years older than my little Wilhelmina: why should not they wed, and the two chief Protestant Houses, and Nations, thereby be united? "
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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[AS. wedd; akin to OFries. wed, OD. wedde, OHG, wetti, G. wette a wager, Icel. veð a pledge, Sw. vad a wager, an appeal, Goth. wadi a pledge, Lith. vad&uring
[OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant, promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D. wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. veðja, Dan. vedde, Sw. vädja<