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A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
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n.
A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music.
n.
One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.
superl.
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
n.
A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.
n.
Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.
a.
Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.
n.
The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
imp.
Gave. See Give.
a.
A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.
n.
An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair.
n.
Same as Gavelock.
n.
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
n.
The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.
pers. pron.
The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me.
n.
A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.
n.
A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
n.
The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed
n.
That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.
v. t.
Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.
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