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.
Giz"zard (?), n. [F. gÈsier, 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 (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
2. (Zoˆl.) (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 (Zoˆl.), 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]
||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.
||Gla*bel"lum (?), n.; pl. Glabella (#). [NL. See Glabella.] (Zoˆl.)
||The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.
Gla"brate (?), a. [L. glabrare, fr. glaber smooth.] (Bot.) Becoming
smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.
{ Gla"bre*ate (?), Gla"bri*ate (?), } v. t. [See Glabrate.] To make
smooth, plain, or bare. [Obs.]