(a) To offer surety (for sb. that he will not do sth.), guarantee;—also refl.; also, ?offer security or certainty [2nd quot.]
(b) to give (sth.) as a pledge or as surety; also, pay (a ransom,……
(a) To give notice of some existing circumstance or a past or coincident event, make something known
(b) to inform (sb., sb. of sth.), notify, advise;
(c) to announce (sth. to sb.), proclaim,……
Uncultivated or uninhabited land; wilderness, desert; also, a tract of uncultivated, barren, or desolate land; ?also, a parcel of land left fallow or untended [quot. a1467].
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