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- Engagement - n. - The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
- Engagement - n. - The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
- Engagement - n. - That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
- Engagement - n. - An action; a fight; a battle.
- Engagement - n. - The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
- Sea fight - - An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.
- Retreat - n. - The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
- Promise - a. - An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.
- Engager - n. - One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
- Action - n. - An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
- Mesh - n. - The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
- Affair - n. - An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
- Del credere - - An agreement by which an agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.
- Extension - v. t. - A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- Hypothecate - v. t. - To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry.
- Mortgage - v. t. - To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.
- Warranty - n. - An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor.
- Combat - n. - An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
- Warranty - n. - A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
- Sponsion - n. - An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.
- Guarantee - n. - In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty.
- Engagement - n. - The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
- Acceptance - n. - An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
- Close-fights - n. pl. - Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
- Agreement - n. - A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
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- H4421 מִלְחָמָה - 4421 מִלְחָמָה - מִלְחָמָה - - milchâmâh - mil-khaw-maw' - from לָחַם (in the sense of fighting); a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare); battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior). - Noun Feminine - heb
- G3423 μνηστεύω - 3423 μνηστεύω - ΜΝΗΣΤΕΎΩ - - mnēsteúō - mnace-tyoo'-o - from a derivative of μνάομαι; to give a souvenir (engagement present), i.e. betroth:--espouse. - Verb - greek