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3. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit
To reign and wage immortal war with wit. Dryden.
The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other. I. Taylor. 4. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. [Obs.] "Thou . . . must wage thy works for
wealth." Spenser.
5. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. [Obs.]
Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers. Holinshed.
I would have them waged for their labor. Latimer. 6. (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of. Burrill.
To wage battle (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See
Wager of battel, under Wager, n. Burrill. - - To wage one's law (Law), to give security to make
one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n.
Wage
(Wage), v. i. To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.]
Wage
(Wage), n. [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage, v. t. ]
1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] "That
warlike wage." Spenser.
2. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; —
at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. "My day's wage." Sir W. Scott. "At least I earned
my wage." Thackeray. "Pay them a wage in advance." J. Morley. "The wages of virtue." Tennyson.
By Tom Thumb, a fairy page,
He sent it, and doth him engage,
By promise of a mighty wage,
It secretly
to carry. Drayton.
Our praises are our wages. Shak.
Existing legislation on the subject of wages. Encyc. Brit. Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage
worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc.
Board wages. See under 1st Board.
Syn. — Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.
Wagel
(Wag"el) n. (Zoöl.) See Waggel.
Wagenboom
(Wa"gen*boom`) n. [D., literally, wagon tree.] (Bot.) A south African proteaceous tree
(Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.
Wager
(Wa"ger) n. [OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure, E. gageure. See Wage, v. t.]
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