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To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.

congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson.

ut steam or odors. -- To give over. (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self). The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. Grew. -- To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim. -- To give points. (a) In games of skill, to e…

succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck. And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. Shak. And millions miss for one that hits. Swift. To hit on or upon, to light upon; to come to by chance. "None of them hit upon the art." Addison.

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.

all in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God. He would not plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.

disposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them. We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in t…

perable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle. Locke. Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable. I. Watts.

nse. Milton. Shady groves, that easy sleep invite. Dryden. There no delusive hope invites despair. Cowper.

heir barks. Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. Milton.

person afflicted by any great misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney.

That by which a thing is to be measured; standard. He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model. South.

accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. [R.] De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron.

were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.

asmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair. South.

One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

ense, or anxiety. "Perplexd beyond self- explication." Shak. We are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Cor. iv. 8. We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind. Locke.

; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair. Milton.

Quality or state of being smiling. And made despair a smilingness assume. Byron.