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See gyve. given (giv'n), p. a. 1. Granted; executed and delivered. Compare datel, 1. Yeoven at our manor of Green wich the 1st day of February, in the 29th year of our reign. Queen Elizabeth (1587), Warrant for Execution of Mary, [Queen of Scots. 2. Conferred; bestowed; bestowed; imparted; not inherited or po e ed naturally: as, a given name. -3. Admitted; supposed; oposed; allowed as a supposition; conceding: as, given A and B, C fol3.-4. Specified or that might be specified or stated; certain; particular; specifically, in math., virtually known or determined: as, a given magnitude - that is, a known magnitude. When the position of a thing is known it is said to be given in position; and the ratio between two quantities being known, these quantities are said to have a given ratio. According to the definitions of Euclid (in his "Data"), a magnitude is given when we can find another equal to it, a ratio is given when an identical ratio can be found, a position is given when it remains constantly the same, etc. You can distinguish between individual people to such an extent that you have a general idea of how a given person will act when placed in given circumstances. W. K. Clifford , Lectures, I. 76. Consciousne , unle as a definite consciousne , as a conscious act at a given time, is no consciousne . Veitch, Introd. to Des cartes's Method, p. cxxvii. 5. Disposed; addicted. [Now used only with specific qualification: as, given to drink; given to exaggeration.] Pointe forth six of the best giuen Ientlemen of this Court. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 67. Fear him not, Cæsar, he's not dangerous; He is a noble Roman, and well given . Shak., J. C., 1. 2. I am mightily given to melancholy. B. Jonson , Every Man in his Humour, iii. 1. I found him garrulously given , A babbler in the land. Tennyson, The Talking Oak. confe one's self inferior to another; submit. Women in shape and beauty men exceede: Here I give in , I doe confe e 't indeede. The Newe Metamorphosis , MS. temp. Jac. 1. If you do fight, fight it out; and don't give in while you can stand and see. T. Hughes , Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 5. To give in to, to yield a ent to; adopt. As mirth is more apt to make proselytes than melancholy, it is observed that the Italians have many of them freedoms of the French. for these late years given very far in to the modes and Add is on, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 374. They give in to all the substantial luxuries of the table, and abstain from nothing but wine and wit. Sheridan , School for Scandal, iii. 3. Elizabeth was forced to give in to a little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impo ible. Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice, p. 306. To give off, to cease; forbear. [Rare.] -To give ont, to rush; fall on. Your orders come too late, the fight's begun; The enemy gives on with fury led. Dryden, Indian Emperor. To give out, to become exhausted: as, the horses gave out at the next milestone; the water gave out . Madam, I always believ'd you so stout, That for twenty denials you would not give out. donor; a bestower; a granter; one who imparts, dispenses, distributes, or contributes. For God loueth a chearfull geuer. Bible of 1551, 2 Cor. ix. 7. That which Moses spake unto givers , we must now inculcate unto takers away from the Church. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. 24. It is the giver , and not the gift, that engro es the heart of the Christian. Kollock . gives, n. pl. See gyves. givre (zhē'vr), n. [F., a particular use of givre, hoar frost, dial. also icicle, Pr. givre, gibre = Cat. gebre, hoar frost; origin obscure.] An efflorescence on vanilla-pods. See the extract. The best varieties of vanilla pods are of a dark chocolate brown or nearly black colour, and are covered with a crystalline efflorescence technically known as givre , the presence of which is taken as a criterion of quality. Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 66. IMG:content-2337.png:[blocks in formation] excrescent d (or with term. -ard for orig. -er ), pl. gigeria, the cooked entrails of poultry.] 1. The second stomach of a bird, not counting the crop or craw as the first; the bulbous or muscular stomach (ventriculus bulbosus), succeeding the proventriculus and succeeded by the duodenum; the gigerium. In most birds, especially those which feed upon grain or hard seeds, it is very thick and muscular, and lined with tough leathery (or even bony) epithelium, the organ thus forming a powerful grinding in which the food is after the gastric juice of the preceding glandular stomach. 2. The proventriculus or first true stomach of insects, generally armed inside with horny teeth. See cut under Blattida .-3. The stom- ach of some mollusks, as Bullidæ , when mus- cular and hardened.-4. Figuratively, temper: now only in the phrase to fret one's gizzard . But that which does them greatest harm, Their sp'ritual gizzards are too warm. S. Butler, Hudibras, III. ii. 668. To fret one's gizzard, to hara one's self; vex one's self, or be vexed. [Vulgar.] To stick in one's gizzard, to prove hard of digestion; be distasteful or offensive; vex one. [Vulgar.]