G I V 
Tlie night was diftinguinied by the orders wliich he 
gave out to ids army, that they fliould forbear all Inl'ult- 
ing of their enemies. Addifon. 
It is given out, that, deeping in my orchard, 
A ferpent ftiing me. So the whole ean of Denmark 
Is by a forged procefs of my death, 
Rankly abufed. Shakefpeare. 
To fliow in falfe appearaiice : 
l-i\% givings out were of an infinite difiance 
From his true meant defign. Shakefpeare. 
To Give up. Torefign; to quit ; to yield.—Let us 
give ourfelves wholly up to Chrifi in heart and defire. 
Taylor.—Give yourfelves up to fome hours of leifure. JVatts. 
Learn to be honefi men, give up your leaders, 
And pardon (hall defeend on all the refi. Addifon. 
Have the phyficians up all their hopes ( 
Cannot they add a few days to a monarch ? Rozoe. 
To abandon.—-If any be given up to believe lies, fome 
iiuift be fiiii given up to tell them. Stilling fleet. —Perfons, 
who, through misfortunes, chufe not to drefs, Ihould 
not, however, give up neatnefs. Clarijfa. —To deliver.— 
And Joab gave up the fum of the number of the people 
to the king. 2 Sam. xxiv. 9. 
To Give way. To yield ; not to refifi ; to make room 
for.—Private refpects, with him, gave way to the com¬ 
mon good. Carew. - ■ 
Scarce had he fpoken when the cloud gave way ; 
The mifis flew upwards, and diflblv’d in day. Drydcn. 
The word give is often ufed with great laxity. I'he ge¬ 
neral idea is that of tranfmitting from one to anotlier. 
To GIVE, V. n. To rufli ; to fall on; to give the af- 
fault. A phrafe merely French, and Icarcely worthy of 
adoption: 
Your orders come too late, the fight’s begun; 
The enemy gives on with fury led. Dryden. 
To relent; to grow moifi ; to melt or foften ; to thaw. 
—Some things are harder when they come from the fire, 
and afterwards give again, and grow foft; as the crufi of 
bread, bifket, fweetmeats, and fait. Bacon. 
Only a fweet and virtuous foul. 
Like feafon’d timber, never ; 
But though the whole world turn to coal. 
Then chiefly lives. Herbert. 
T o mo V e. A French ph rafe; 
Up and down he traverfes his ground. 
Then nimbly fliifts a thrufi, then lends a wound ; 
Now back he gives, then ruihes on amain. Daniel. 
To Give in. To go back ; to give way. Not in ufe. — 
The charge was given with fo well-governed fury, that 
the left corner of the Scots battalion was enforced to 
give in. Hayward. 
To Give into. To adopt; to embrace.—This confi- 
deration may induce a tranflator to give into thofe gene¬ 
ral phrafes, which have attained a veneration in our 
language from being ufed in the Old Tefiament. Pope.— 
The whole body of the people are giving in with all their 
ynight to thofe very praffices that, are working their de- 
firuftion. Swift. 
To Give off. To ceafe ; to forbear.—The punifhment 
would be kept from being too much, if we gave off as 
foon as we perceived that it reaches the mind. Locke. 
To Gi VE over. To ceafe ; to acl no more.—Demetrius, 
king of Macedon, had a petition offered him divers times ^ 
by an old woman, and (fill anfwered he had no leifure ; 
whereupon the woman laid aloud, V/hy then give over to 
be king. Bacon. 
So Satan, whom repulfe upon repulfe 
Met ever, and to (hameful filence brought, 
Ytt.gives not o’er, though dcfperate of luccefs. Milton. 
VoL. Vlll. No. 527. 
G I U 585 
To Give out. To publifii ; to proclaim.—Simon be¬ 
witched the people of Samaria, giding out that himfelf 
was fome great one. AEls', viii. 9.—To ceafe ; to yield : 
We are'the eartli ; and they 
Like moles within us, heave and call about : 
And ’till they foot and clutch their prey; 
They never cool, much lefs gwe oo«. Herbert. 
GIV'EN, {Datum,) a term ufed in mathematics, fo 
fignify fomething that is fuppofed to be known : thus, 
if a magnitude be known, or if we can find anotlier equal 
to it, it is (aid to he given in magnitude. Or v.:hen the 
pofition of any thing is known, it is faid to be given in 
poution. And when the diameter of a circle is known, 
the circle is given in magnitude. Or the circle is given 
in pofition, when its centre is given in pofition. When 
the kind or fpecies of a figure is known, or remains the 
fame, it Is given in fpecie, &c. Euclid wrote a book of 
Data, or concerning things given, in 95 propofitions, 
ulually accompanying his Elements, in the belt editions, 
and which Pappus reckons as one of the befi fpecimens 
of the analytical works of the ancients. 
GIV'ER, f. One that gives ; donor ; befiower ; dif. 
tributor; granter; 
I have not liv’d fince firfi I heard the news, 
The gift the guilty giver doth accufe. Dryden, 
Both gifts defiruflive to the givers prove ; 
Alike both lovers fall by thofe they love. Pope. 
GIVES,yi Fetters or fliackles for the feet. 
GIV'ET, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ardennes, and chief place of a canton, in the difirict of 
Rocroy, It-anciently confified of two fmall villages, in 
the county of Namur, on each fide of the Meufe, near 
Charlemont, afterwards erefled into two towns, one next 
to Charlemont, called Givet St,. Hilaire, the other on the 
oppofite fide of the river, called Givet Notre Dame. The 
fortifications are the work of Vauban: eight leagues 
north of Mezieres, and five north-eaft of Rocroy. Lat. 
5c. 7. N. Ion. 22. 27. E. Ferro. 
GIU'LA, a town of Hungary, fituated on the river 
Keres ; taken by the Turks in 1566, and retaken, in the 
year 1695, by the emperor, to whom it was confirmed 
by the peace of Carlowitz : fifty-two miles north-north- 
wefi of Temefv/ar, and eighty-eight north of Belgrade. 
GIULE'NEI, an ifland in the Cafpian Sea : 130 miles 
fouth of Afirachan. Lat. 44.15. N. Ion. 65.3,5. FI. Ferro. 
GIU'LIA NO'VA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom 
of Naples, and province of Abruzzo Ultra, on the coafi 
of the Adriatic : twelve miles eafi-north-eafi of'I'eramo. 
GIVON'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ardennes, aitd chief place of a canton, in th.e'difirift 
of Sedan ; one league north-eafi of Sedan. 
GIVO'RS, a town of F'rance, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in 
the difiridl of Campagne-de-Lyon: four leagues fouth 
of Lyons. 
GIV'RY, a town of France, in the department of 
tlie Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in 
the difiridl of Chalons; one league and a half weft of 
Chalons-fur-Saone, and two and a half fouth of Chagny. 
Lat. 46. 47. N. Ion. 22. 25. E. Ferro. 
GIUS'MARK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Curdiftan ; eighty miles fouth-lbuth-eafi 
of Betlis. 
GIUST,/. igioflra, Ital.] A tilting with fpears : 
Full jolly knight he feem’d, and faire did fitt, 
As one for knightly giujls and fierce encounters fitt. Sp. 
To GIUST, V: n. To tilt with fpears. — So foorth they 
went, and both together giufed. Spenfer. 
GIUSTENDIL', a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Bulgaria ; the lee of a Greek archbilhop : 
eighty miles weft-north-w'eft of Sophia. 
GIUSTENDIL', a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Bulgaria; twenty-four miles fouth of Sophia. 
