6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,

And the gods yield you for 't.

Shak.

God yield thee, and God thank ye.

Beau. & Fl.

To yield the breath, the ghost, or the life, to die; to expire; -- often followed by up.

One calmly yields his willing breath.

Keble.

Yield, v. i. 1. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

He saw the fainting Grecians yield.

Dryden.

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