verb

• (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
• (intransitive) To be an inconvenience. (on or upon)
• To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
• To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
• To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• 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 place an encumbrance or burden on.