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Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.

Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.

A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.

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.…

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.

The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.

Thanks. [Obs.] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. Chaucer.

The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude. C. Reade. E. P. Whipple.

Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [Colloq., U. S.]

Yielding guano. Ure.

Yielding gum or resinous substances.

uence. -- To hang out. (a) To be hung out so as to be displayed; to project. (b) To be unyielding; as, the juryman hangs out against an agreement. [Colloq.] (c) to lounge around a particular place; as, teenageers tend to hang out at the mall these days -- To hang over.

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict. [Collog., U.S.]

Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. Shak.

ch is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.

e; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.

Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured land." J. Philips. -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. -- Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.