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imp. of Give.

A gable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [Obs.]

A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell.

Same as Gavelock.

A spear or dart. [R. & Obs.]

The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). [Prov. Eng.]

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

imp. of Forgive.

A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

elieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

ly of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.

Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of Agave Americana, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, etc. [Sp. Amer. & Mex.]

-- Ever and anon, now and then; frequently; often. A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose. Shak.

or the like; a reply. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.