Give(n.)
- 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.
Give(n.)
- To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
Give(n.)
- To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
Give(n.)
- To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
Give(n.)
- To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
Give(n.)
- 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.
Give(n.)
- 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.
Give(n.)
- 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.
Give(n.)
- To allow or admit by way of supposition.