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A fair woman; a sweetheart. I have found out a gift for my fair. Shenstone.

A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak.

A Brazilian apocynaceous vine (Macrosiphonia longiflora) having woolly leaves.

To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor. Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart. Spenser.

Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. [R.] "It is of frank gift." Spenser.

ot gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.

The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] Gift of gab, facility of expression. [Colloq.]

To give a gift or gifts.

onor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.

The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

tion with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women. It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.…

The gift of tongues. Farrar.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Gifford (1580).

res them longer, than any thing else. Hazlitt. I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. Longfellow.

The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present. Swift.

Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.

A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the firs…

ience, observation, and memory. Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. Carlyle. For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history. Shak. What histories of toil could I declare! Pope. History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any r…

a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant. [Scot.]