Wage

1. v. t. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; — at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
2. v. t. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
3. v. t. To expose one’s self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
4. v. t. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
5. v. t. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
6. v. t. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
7. v. t. To give security for the performance of.
8. v. i. To bind one’s self; to engage.
9. v. t. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.