To redeem or ransom.
“Not being able to buy out his life … .
Dies ere the weary sun set.”
Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, i. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.