give (pa. pple. once “gave” Ven. 571; 8 metaphor from the exuding of moisture, e.g. on a stone)
1.
to
‘give away’ (the bride) at the
marriage ceremony
AYL. III. iii. 71
“Is there none here to
the
woman?.”
2.
to dedicate, devote,
surrender
Wiv. V. v. 161
“have given ourselves .
. . to hell,”
Wint. II. iii. 8
“Given to the
fire,”
H5 I. ii. 270, R3 II. i. 117, Ant. III. ii. 64,
Sonn. clii. 11
“gave eyes to
blindness”
; intr. (?)= refl. to give oneself up to
Compl. 51
“gave to tear”
(mod. edd. “gan”); cf. H5 IV. vi.
32.
3.
(of the mind) to
suggest, cause to suspect H8 V. iii.
109,
Cor. IV. v. 158
“my mind gave me his
clothes made a false report of
him.”
4.
to display as an
armorial bearing
Wiv. I. i. 16
“may the dozen white
luces in their coat,”
1H6 I. v. 29.
5.
to represent, report
Cor. I. ix. 55
“us that you
truly,”
Ant. I. iv. 40
“men's reports Give him
much wrong'”
6.
to attribute,
ascribe, assign
H8 III. ii. 263
“the fault thou gav'st
him,”
Rom. IV. v. 116-7
(quibbling),
Mac. I. iii. 119
“those that gave the
Thane of Cawdor to me.”
7.
to consider, set down
as Wint. III. ii. 96.
8.
to be tearful
Tim. IV. iii. 493
“whose eyes do never
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