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.
Give (n.) To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
Give (n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
Give (n.) To pledge; as, to give one's word.
Give (n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.
Give (v. i.) To give a gift or gifts.
Give (v. i.) To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
Give (v. i.) To become soft or moist.
Give (v. i.) To move; to recede.
Give (v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.
Give (v. i.) To have a misgiving.
Give (v. i.) To open; to lead.
Given () p. p. & a. from Give, v.
Given (v.) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.
Given (v.) Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given.
Given (adv.) Stated; fixed; as, in a given time.
Giver (n.) One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
Gives (n.) Fetters.
Giving (n.) The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
Giving (n.) A gift; a benefaction.
Giving (n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.
Gizzard (n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
Gizzard (n.) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.
Gizzard (n.) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
Glabell/ (pl. ) of Glabella
Glabella (n.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.
Glabella (pl. ) of Glabellum
Glabellum (n.) The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.
Glabrate (a.) Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.
Glabreate (v. t.) Alt. of Glabriate
Glabriate (v. t.) To make smooth, plain, or bare.
Glabrity (n.) Smoothness; baldness.
Glabrous (a.) Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
Glacial (a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
Glacial (a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
Glaciate (v. i.) To turn to ice.
Glaciate (v. t.) To convert into, or cover with, ice.
Glaciate (v. t.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.
Glaciation (n.) Act of freezing.
Glaciation (n.) That which is formed by freezing; ice.
Glaciation (n.) The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.
Glacier (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
Glacious (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy.
Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).
Glad (superl.) Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
Glad (superl.) Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.
Gladded (imp. & p. p.) of Glad
Gladding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glad
Glad (v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
Glad (v. i.) To be glad; to rejoice.
Gladdened (imp. & p. p.) of Gladden
Gladdening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gladden
Gladden (v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.
Gladden (v. i.) To be or become glad; to rejoice.
Gladder (n.) One who makes glad.
Glade (n.) An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
Glade (n.) An everglade.
Glade (n.) An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.
Gladen (n.) Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima.
Gladeye (n.) The European yellow-hammer.
Gladful (a.) Full of gladness; joyful; glad.
Gladiate (a.) Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.
Gladiator (n.) Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.
Gladiator (n.) One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
Gladiatorial (a.) Alt. of Gladiatorian
Gladiatorian (a.) Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.
Gladiatorism (n.) The art or practice of a gladiator.
Gladiatorship (n.) Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.
Gladiatory (a.) Gladiatorial.
Gladiature (n.) Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest.
Gladiole (n.) A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also corn flag.
Gladioli (pl. ) of Gladiolus
Gladioluses (pl. ) of Gladiolus
Gladiolus (n.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.
Gladiolus (n.) The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum.
Gladii (pl. ) of Gladius
Gladius (n.) The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.
Gladly (a.) Preferably; by choice.
Gladly (a.) With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly.
Gladness (n.) State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.
Gladship (n.) A state of gladness.
Gladsome (a.) Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
Gladsome (a.) Causing joy, pleasure, or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing.
Gladstone (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.
Gladwyn (n.) See Gladen.
Glair (a.) The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.
Glair (a.) Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.
Glair (a.) A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.
Glaired (imp. & p. p.) of Glair
Glairing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glair
Glair (v. t.) To smear with the white of an egg.
Glaire (n.) See Glair.
Glaireous (a.) Glairy; covered with glair.
Glairin (n.) A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.
Glairy (a.) Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy.