Part 4815

<blockquote>This, yielding, <b>gave</b> into a grassy walk. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To give back</col>, <cd>to recede; to retire; to retreat.</cd>

<blockquote>They <b>gave back</b> and came no farther. <i>Bunyan.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To give in</col>, <cd>to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition.</cd>

<blockquote>The Scots battalion was enforced to <b>give in</b>. <i>Hayward.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This consideration may induce a translator to <b>give in</b> to those general phrases. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To give off</col>, <cd>to cease; to forbear.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Locke</i>. -- <col>To give</col> <col>on &or; upon</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To rush; to fall upon.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face.</cd> <mark>[A Gallicism: <plain>cf. Fr.</plain> donner sur.]</mark>

<blockquote>Rooms which <b>gave upon</b> a pillared porch. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The gloomy staircase <b>on</b> which the grating <b>gave</b>. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To give out</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To expend all one's strength.</cd> Hence: <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being <i>to give out</i>; the flour has <i>given out</i>.</cd> -- <col>To give over</col>, <cd>to cease; to discontinue; to desist.</cd>

<blockquote>It would be well for all authors, if they knew when <b>to give over</b>, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To give up</col>, <cd>to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never <i>give up</i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Given</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Giv"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>p. p. & a.</tt> from <er>Give</er>, <tt>v.</tt></def>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Math. & Logic)</fld> <def>Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Disposed; inclined; -- used with an <tt>adv.</tt>; <as>as, virtuously <ex>given</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Stated; fixed; <as>as, in a <ex>given</ex> time</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Given name</col>, <cd>the Christian name, or name <i>given<i> by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the <i>surname<i>, which is inherited. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Giver</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Giv"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.</def>

<blockquote>It is the <b>giver</b>, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. <i>Kollock.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gives</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Gives</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Give</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>Fetters.</def>

<h1>Giving</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Giv"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A gift; a benefaction.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Pope.</i>