Give /(gĭv)/

imp. Gave; p. p. Given; p. pr. & vb. n. Giving

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.

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 ?

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.

   Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.

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. 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. (Logic & Math.)
9. To allow or admit by way of supposition.

   I give not heaven for lost.

10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

    I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.

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.

14. To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park.

    Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves.

    I fear our ears have given us the bag.

    One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.

    Give out you are of Epidamnum.

    The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice.

    He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome.

    I'll not state them By giving up their characters.

1. To give a gift or gifts.
2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
3. To become soft or moist. [Obs.]
4. To move; to recede.

   Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.

5. To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.]

   Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter.

6. To have a misgiving. [Obs.]

   My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women.

7. To open; to lead. [A Gallicism]

   This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk.

   They gave back and came no farther.

   The Scots battalion was enforced to give in.

   This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.

   Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch.

   The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.

   It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.