- A tax - Act against - Charge - Charge the French and get hollow victory - Impose, as a tax - Imposition of a tax or fine - Levity has let it go – such an imposition!
- To give or grant amiss. - Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to,
instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make
irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the
objective personal pronoun. - To suspect; to dread. - To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or
irresolute.
- 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.