To support by being a patron of.
To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
The act or state of being a customer of some business.
Customers collectively; clientele; business.
A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
The right of nomination to political office.
Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
To promote.
To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
To cause something to come to the surface of water.
To create, increase or develop.
To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
To open, initiate.
To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
To collect or amass.
To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
To bring up; to grow.
To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
To exponentiate, to involute.
To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
A bet that increases the previous bet.
A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
A cairn or pile of stones.
A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.