to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
To establish or apply by authority.
to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
To take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted by a presumptuous statement.
Hopefully; a self-directive to undertake the customary action to ward off bad luck.