Verb

(en verb)

To crown king, to make (a person) king.

* 1982 , South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review , Volume 47, page 16,

The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play .

* 2008 , William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth , Introduction, page 24,

One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.

To rule over as king.

* (William Shakespeare), , Act 2, Scene 4,

And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d , / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.

To perform the duties of a king.

* 1918 , Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman , Volume 35, page 675,

He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.

* 2001 , Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning , page 6,

Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.

To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.

* 1917 , Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself , page 32,

The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.

To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.

* 1957 , Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines , page 302,

If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.

* 1986 , Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry , page 100,

I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged , but I slid my checker back.

To dress and perform as a drag king.

* 2008 , Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia'', in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), ''AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities , page 266,

Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.

Verb

To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

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(ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.

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To be profitable for.

To give (something else than money).

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

not paying me a welcome

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

To be profitable or worth the effort.

To discharge an obligation or debt.

To suffer consequences.

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.