1. (v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

2. (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.

3. (v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.

4. (v. t.) To invite; to entertain.

5. (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.

6. (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.

7. (n.) Entreaty.