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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Give \Give\ (g[i^]v), v. t. [imp. {Gave} (g[=a]v); p. p. {Given} (g[i^]v"'n); p. pr & vb n. {Giving}.] [OE. given yiven, yeven, AS gifan giefan akin to D. geven, OS ge[eth]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw gifva Dan. give Goth. giban. Cf {Gift}, n.] 1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow For generous lords had rather give than pay --Young. 2. To yield possesion of to deliver over as property, in exchange for something to pay as we give the value of what we buy What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? --Matt. xvi. 26. 3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as flint and steel give sparks. 4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc 5. To grant power or license to to permit; to allow to license; to commission. It is given me once again to behold my friend. --Rowe. Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine. --Pope. 6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show as the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. 7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self as the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study. 8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. --Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover. --Sheridan. 11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as to give offense; to give pleasure or pain. 12. To pledge; as to give one's word 13. To cause to make -- with the infinitive; as to give one to understand, to know etc But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. --Shak. {To give away}, to make over to another; to transfer. Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves --Atterbury. {To give back}, to return; to restore. --Atterbury. {To give the bag}, to cheat. [Obs.] I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster. {To give birth to}. a To bear or bring forth, as a child. b To originate; to give existence to as an enterprise, idea. {To give chase}, to pursue. {To give ear to}. See under {Ear}. {To give forth}, to give out to publish; to tell --Hayward. {To give ground}. See under {Ground}, n. {To give the hand}, to pledge friendship or faith. {To give the hand of}, to espouse; to bestow in marriage. {To give the head}. See under {Head}, n. {To give in}. a To abate; to deduct. b To declare; to make known to announce; to tender; as to give in one's adhesion to a party. {To give the lie to} (a person), to tell him that he lies. {To give line}. See under {Line}. {To give off}, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc {To give one's self away}, to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like [Colloq.] {To give out}. a To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare. One that gives out himself Prince Florizel --Shak. Give out you are of Epidamnum --Shak. b To send out to emit; to distribute; as a substance gives out steam or odors. {To give over}. a To yield completely; to quit to abandon. b To despair of c To addict, resign, or apply (one's self). The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. --Grew. {To give place}, to withdraw; to yield one's claim. {To give points}. a In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. b To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.] {To give rein}. See under {Rein}, n. {To give the sack}. Same as {To give the bag}. {To give and take}. a To average gains and losses. b To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc {To give time} (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor. --Abbott. {To give the time of day}, to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as ``good morning.'' ``good evening'', etc {To give tongue}, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of dogs. {To give up}. a To abandon; to surrender. ``Don't give up the ship.'' He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. --Shak. b To make public; to reveal. I'll not state them By giving up their characters. --Beau. & Fl c (Used also reflexively.) {To give up the ghost}. See under {Ghost}. {To give one's self up}, to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self {To give way}. a To withdraw; to give place b To yield to force or pressure; as the scaffolding gave way c (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased energy. d (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value; as railroad securities gave way two per cent. {To give way together}, to row in time; to keep stroke. Syn: To {Give}, {Confer}, {Grant}. Usage: To give is the generic word embracing all the rest. To confer was originally used of persons in power, who gave permanent grants or privileges; as to confer the order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the giving of something which might have been withheld; as to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way dependent or inferior. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Giving \Giv"ing\, n. 1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] --Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. ``Upon the first giving of the weather.'' --Addison. {Giving in}, a falling inwards; a collapse. {Giving out}, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: giving adj : given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: {big}, {bighearted}, {bounteous}, {bountiful}, {freehanded}, {handsome}, {liberal}, {openhanded}] n 1: the act of giving [syn: {gift}] 2: the imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily" 3: disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return
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