(a) Something offered as security, such as a pledge, a bond, a pawn, or bail; finden, laien, yeven caucioun, give a pledge, furnish security; caucioun marchant, ?security in goods; (b) law an……

(a) To cause, effect, or produce (sth.); (b) to bring about or induce (an event or situation); cause (an action); (c) to bring (sth.) into existence, produce; (d) cause causing [L causa causans]……

(a) A warning; (b) law an injunction or rule. …

Law The return of a sheriff who has arrested a person upon a capias. …

Law A writ of certiorari. …

(a) A false or malicious accusation or charge; also, any charge; wrong chalenge, an accusation of having done wrong; (b) wrong chalenge, wrongdoing, injury inflicted upon others. …

Law The practice of aiding a litigant for a share of the matter in dispute, champerty. …

(a) Burdensome (bags); (b) onerous, troublesome, distressing (matter); (c) heavy (expense); burdensome (tax). …

(a) The head or leader (of an organization); ruler, governor, administrator, commander, chief officer, chief; chef of clergie, high priest; chef of holi chirche; etc.; (b) the (chief) seat (of a……

(a) Principally, primarily, chiefly, especially; (b) first of all; promptly, quickly; (c) law as a fief, in chief. …

Law Sovereignty. …

(a) A sentence or clause, a brief statement, a short passage, a short text or quotation; in a clause, briefly, in short; (b) a written message or letter; a story; a long passage in an author's source……

(a) The clergy (as distinguished from the laity); also, a particular group of clerics; (b) the clergy of a country (as a political class); also, the prelates of the realm, the lords spiritual; (c) the……

(a) To obstruct a passageway; block entrance to (a place); closen up; closen from, bar or block (someone's) entry; shut or lock (a door); closen to; of a trap: to shut; (b) to close an opening or gap……

(a) An encircling structure or barrier, such as a wall, fence, hedge, or moat; (b) a cover (of a book). …

(a) Lying alongside, adjoining; (b) accompanying, concomitant; (c) subsidiary, subordinate, less important; (d) law collateral (security); added (provision). …

Law (a) A secret understanding or agreement between persons to circumvent the law or to achieve a purpose by unfair or fraudulent means; collusion; (b) a fraudulent act, a subterfuge. …

(a) To come about, arise; (b) to begin; begin (to snow); (c) law to become effective. …

(a) To distribute (sth.) in shares, deal out; communen to, give (sth.) to (sb.) as his share; communen with, share (sth.) with (others); (b) to have a share (in sth.), participate; enter into……

The sharing of possessions. …