Word Meanings - GIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving

Additional info about word: GIVING

1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 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.

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  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
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  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• FALLOW
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• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• FALLOPIAN
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  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• LAWBREAKER
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• TERGIVERSATOR
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  Infallible. Shak.
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  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
• THANKSGIVING
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