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.
To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as
property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the
value of what we buy.
To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit;
as, flint and steel give sparks.
To communicate or announce, as advice,
tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a
judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
To grant power or license to; to permit;
to allow; to license; to commission.
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.
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.
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.
To allow or admit by way of
supposition.
To attribute; to assign; to
adjudge.
To excite or cause to exist, as a
sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or
pain.
To pledge; as, to give one's
word.
To cause; to make; -- with the
infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know,
etc.
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