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.-to give a gift or gifts.-to yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.-to become soft or moist.-to move; to recede.-to shed tears; to weep.-to have a misgiving.-to open; to lead.