GIVE

vi to have a misgiving.

2. give ·vi to become soft or moist.

3. give ·vi to give a gift or gifts.

4. give ·noun to allow or admit by way of supposition.

5. give ·vi to shed tears; to weep.

6. give ·noun to pledge; as, to give one's word.

7. give ·vi to open; to lead.

8. give ·vi to move; to recede.

9. give ·add. ·vt to afford a view of; as, his window gave the park.

10. give ·noun to excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.

11. give ·noun to attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

12. give ·vi to yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

13. give ·noun to cause; to make;

— with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, ·etc.

14. give ·noun 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.

15. give ·noun to yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.

xvi. give ·noun 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.

xvii. give ·noun to communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, ·etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, ·etc.

xviii. give ·noun to yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

xix. give ·noun to grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.

xx. give ·noun 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.

xxi. give ·noun 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.