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  • 101Gage — A pledge or surety, which could be property or a person. Later, the term applied to a glove or gauntlet by way of challenge, as a gage of battle, or surety of that challenge. Thus the gauntlet came to be thrown down. Cf. Gauntlet; Wedd …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 102gage — See gage, gauge …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 103gage — Synonyms and related words: DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, antidepressant, ataractic, bail, battle cry, bid to combat, bond, challenge, dare, defi, defy, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, double dare, earnest, earnest money,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 104-gage — mort gage …

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  • 105GAGE, THOMAS —    English general, son of Viscount Gage; he served in the Seven Years War, and took part in 1755 in Braddock s disastrous expedition in America; in 1760 he became military governor of Montreal, and three years later commander in chief of the… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 106Gage — Ga|ge [ ga:ʒə] die; , n <aus fr. gage »Pfand, Sold, Löhnung«, dies aus dem Germ.>: a) Bezahlung, Gehalt von Künstlern; b) (österr. veraltet) Gehalt eines Offiziers …

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  • 107gage — n marihuana or hashish. Gauge is a now obsolete slang term for an alcoholic drink and later also for a pipe or a pipe ful of tobacco, coming presumably from the idea of a measure (of something intoxicating). The survival of these senses in… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 108gage — sb. == pledge. Alys. 7236. Fr. gage. Lat. vadium …

    Oldest English Words

  • 109gage —    American    to be addicted to cheap and unpalatable whisky, chewing tobacco, or marijuana    The container so called holds a quart, which does not tell us the other derivations. Whence gaged, drunk, but not necessarily of whisky. The people… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 110Gage — Sp Gedžas Ap Gage L JAV apyg. (Nebraska) …

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