| • | To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake;
   to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. | 
											
															| • | To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger;
   to venture; to hazard. | 
											
															| • | To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or
   pledge; to carry on, as a war. | 
											
															| • | To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. | 
											
															| • | To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. | 
											
															| • | To give security for the performance of. | 
											
															| • | To bind one's self; to engage. | 
											
															| • | That which is staked or ventured; that for which one
   incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. | 
											
															| • | That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated
   payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present
   generally used in the plural. See Wages. |