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

It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.

Addison.

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To give up, to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never give up.

Given
(Giv"en) p. p. & a. from Give, v.

1. (Math. & Logic) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.

2. Disposed; inclined; — used with an adv.; as, virtuously given. Shak.

3. Stated; fixed; as, in a given time.

Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

Giver
(Giv"er) n. One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.

It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian.

Kollock.

Gives
(Gives) n. pl. [See Give, n.] Fetters.

Giving
(Giv"ing) n.

1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] Pope.

3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison.

Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. — Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.

His givings out were of an infinite distance
From his true meant design.

Shak.

Gizzard
(Giz"zard) n. [F. gésier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.]

1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.

Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. — To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. — To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]

Glabella
(||Gla*bel"la) n.; pl. Glabell [NL., fr. L. glabellus hairless, fr. glaber bald.] (Anat.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. — Gla*bel"lar a.

Glabellum
(||Gla*bel"lum) n.; pl. Glabella [NL. See Glabella.] (Zoöl.) The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.