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Contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt; a pawn. Hence mortgage is a dead pledge.

 - n. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the acceptor of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.

 - n. A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue ...