To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
To affirm; to make firm and strong.
To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
To restrain; to limit.
To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
The smallest gear in a gear train.
Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
A moth of the genus Lithophane.
The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
A wing.