Give v. i.
 1. To give a gift or gifts.
 2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
 3. To become soft or moist. [Obs.]
 4. To move; to recede.
    Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.   --Daniel.
 5. To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.]
 Whose eyes do never give
 But through lust and laughter.   --Shak.
 6. To have a misgiving. [Obs.]
 My mind gives ye're reserved
 To rob poor market women.   --J. Webster.
 7. To open; to lead. [A Gallicism]
    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 To give 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.

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