(archaic) A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

(transitive, formal or archaic) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.

(transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.

(transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.

(transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.

(transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.

(transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest; allude to.

(intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.