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To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.

slaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

Lit., gate; -- a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him.

A name given to any one of family (Timalinæ) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

In return, repayment, or requital. What have I to give you back! Shak.

A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. Thackeray.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Support or aid given to a person or cause.

er, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages.

The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. Excessive bail ought not to be required. Blackstone.

A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses. Holland.

nker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.

The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.