- (v.t.) To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.
- (v.t.) To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
- (v.i.) To make inquiry or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.
- (v.i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.
- (n.) A water newt.
- (v.t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
- (v.t.) To require, demand, claim or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?.
- (v.t.) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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