This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk.
Tennyson.
To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat.
They gave back and came no farther.
Bunyan.
-- To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten;
to cease opposition.
The Scots battalion was enforced to give in.
Hayward.
This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those
general phrases.
Pope.
-- To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. -- To give on or
upon. (a) To rush; to fall upon. [Obs.] (b) To have a view of; to be in
sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face.
[A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.]
Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch.
Tennyson.
The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
Dickens.
-- 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.
-- To give up, to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would
never give up.
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.