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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



445 words match “GIVING”

GIFFGAFF n.
Mutial accommodation; mutual giving. [Scot.]
GIFT n.
The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
GIVE v. 3 definitions
To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover. Sheridan.
GLIDDER; GLIDDERY a.
Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.] Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.
GLOCKENSPIEL n.
nally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
GLORIFICATION n.
The act of glorifyng or of giving glory to. Jer. Taylor.
GONAD n.
One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim.
GUIDE n.
Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator; as:
GUSSET n.
small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement. Seam and gusset and band. Hood.
GYPSY MOTH; GIPSY MOTH n.
h blue tubercles on the anterior and red tubercles on the posterior part of the body, all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs. They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August. The eggs are laid on tree trunks, rocks, etc., and hatch in the spring.
HALLELUIAH; HALLELUJAH n.
e Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver. ) So sung they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Milton. In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the fields, might…
HARVEST-HOME n.
A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
HATCHMENT n.
is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones. Shak.
HEAT n.
any apparatus by which a heated substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine. -- Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. -- Heat rays, a term formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the v…
HEINOUS a.
Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.
HELPFUL a.
Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary. Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him! Shak. -- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n. Milton.
HOPELESS a.
Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. Shak.
HORTATION n.
The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation. [R.]
HORTATIVE a.
Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative. Bullokar.
HORTATORY a.
Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.
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