Gather - GATH'ER, v.t.
1. To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body.
Gather stones; and they took stones,and made a heap. Gen 31.
2. To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Lev 25:20.
3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.
Gather out the stones. Isa 62.
He must gather up money by degrees.
4. To pluck; to collect by cropping, picking or plucking.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Mat 7.
5. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezek 22:19.
6. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.
I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. Eccl 2.
7. To select and take; to separate from others and bring together.
Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen. Psa 106.
8. To sweep together.
The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Mat 13.
9. To bring into one body or interest.
Yet will I gather others to him. Isa 56.
10. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.
Gathering his flowing robe he seemed to stand,
In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand.
11. To gain.
He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
12. To pucker; to plait.
13. To deduce by inference; to collect or learn by reasoning. From what I hear I gather that he was present.
After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts 16.
14. To coil as a serpent.
To gather breath, to have respite.
GATH'ER, v.i. To collect; to unite; to increase; to be condensed. The clouds gather in the west.
1. To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.
Their snow ball did not gather as it went.
2. To assemble. The people gather fast.
3. To generate pus or matter. [See Gathering.]
Gentile - GEN'TILE, n. [L. gentilis; from L. gens, nation, race; applied to pagans.]
In the scriptures, a pagan; a worshipper of false gods; any person not a Jew or a christian; a
heathen. The Hebrews included in the term goim or nations, all the tribes of men who had not
received the true faith,and were not circumcised. The christians translated goim by the L.
gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were not Jews nor
christians.
In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans.
GEN'TILE, a. Pertaining to pagans or heathens.
Gift - GIFT, n. [from give.] A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.
1. The act of giving or conferring.
2. The right or power of giving or bestowing. The prince has the gift of many lucrative offices.
3. An offering or oblation.
If thou bring thy gift to the altar. Mat 5.
4. A reward.
Let thy gifts be to thyself. Dan 5.
5. A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment.
Neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deu 16.
6. Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule.
GIFT, v.t. To endow with any power or faculty.
Girding - GIRD'ING, ppr. Binding; surrounding; investing.
GIRD'ING, n. A covering. Isa 3.
Give - GIVE, v.t. pret. gave; pp. given. [Heb. to give. The sense of give is generally to pass, or to transfer, that is, to send or throw.]
1. To bestow; to confer; to pass or transfer the title or property of a thing to another person without an equivalent or compensation.
For generous lords had rather give than pay.
2. To transmit from himself to another by hand, speech or writing; to deliver.
The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Gen 3.
3. To import; to bestow.
Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. Mat 25.
4. To communicate; as, to give an opinion; to give counsel or advice; to give notice.
5. To pass or deliver the property of a thing to another for an equivalent; to pay. We give the full value of all we purchase. A dollar is given for a day's labor.
What shall a man give in exchange for this soul? Mat 16.
6. To yield; to lend; in the phrase to give ear, which signifies to listen; to hear.
7. To quit; in the phrase to give place, which signifies to
withdraw, or retire to make room for another.
8. To confer; to grant.
What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? Gen 15.
9. To expose; to yield to the power of.
Give to the wanton winds their flowing hair.
10. To grant; to allow; to permit.
It is given me once again to behold my friend.
11. To afford; to supply; to furnish.
Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings. Exo 10.
12. To empower; to license; to commission.
Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
But this and similar phrases are probably elliptical; give for give power or license. So in the phrases,give me to understand, give me to know, give the flowers to blow, that is, to give power, to enable.
13. To pay or render; as, to give praise, applause or approbation.
14. To render; to pronounce; as, to give sentence or judgment; to give the word of command.
15. To utter; to vent; as, to give a shout.
16. To produce; to show; to exhibit as a product or result; as, the number of men divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
17. To cause to exist; to excite in another; as, to give offense or umbrage; to give pleasure.
18. To send forth; to emit; as, a stone gives sparks with steel.
19. To addict; to apply; to devote one's self, followed by the reciprocal pronoun. The soldiers give themselves to plunder. The passive participle is much used in this sense; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
Give thyself wholly to them. 1 Tim 4.
20. To resign; to yield up; often followed by up.
Who say, I care not, those I give for lost.
21. To pledge; as, I give my word that the debt shall be paid.
22. To present for taking or acceptance; as, I give you my hand.
23. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
To give away, to alienate the title or property of a thing; to make over to another; to transfer.
Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses, during our lives, is given away from ourselves.
To give back, to return; to restore.
To give forth, to publish; to tell; to report publicly.
To give the hand, to yield preeminence, as being subordinate or inferior.
To give in, to allow by way of abatement or deduction from a claim; to yield what may be justly demanded.
To give over, to leave; to quit; to cease; to abandon; as, to give over a pursuit.
1. To addict; to attach to; to abandon.
When the Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice.
2. To despair of recovery; to believe to be lost, or past recovery. The physician had given over the patient, or given the patient over.
3. To abandon.
To give out, to utter publicly; to report; to proclaim; to publish. It was given out that parliament would assemble in November.
1. To issue; to send forth; to publish.
The night was distinguished by the orders which he gave out to his army.
2. To show; to exhibit in false appearance.
3. To send out; to emit; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
To give up, to resign; to quit; to yield as hopeless; as, to give up a cause; to give up the argument.
1. To surrender; as, to give up a fortress to an enemy.
2. To relinquish, to cede. In this treaty the Spaniards gave up Louisiana.
3. To abandon; as, to give up all hope. They are given up to believe a lie.
4. To deliver.
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king. 2 Sam 24.
To give one's self up, to despair of one's recovery; to conclude to be lost.
1. To resign or devote.
Let us give ourselves wholly up to Christ in heart and desire.
2. To addict; to abandon. He gave himself up to intemperance.
To give way, to yield; to withdraw to make room for. Inferiors should give way to superiors.
1. To fail; to yield or force; to break or fall. The ice gave way and the horses were drowned. The scaffolding gave way. The wheels or axletree gave way.
2. To recede; to make room for.
3. In seamen's language, give way is an order to a boat's crew to row after ceasing, or to increase their exertions.
GIVE, v.i. giv. To yield to pressure. The earth gives under the feet.
1. To begin to melt; to thaw; to grow soft, so as to yield to pressure.
2. To move; to recede.
Now back he gives,then rushes on amain.
To give in, to be back; to give way. [Not in use.]
To give into, to yield assent; to adopt.
This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.
To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Little used.
To give on, to rush; to fall on. [Not in use.]
To give out, to publish; to proclaim.
1. To cease from exertion; to yield; applied to persons. He labored hard, but gave out at last.
To give over, to cease; to act no more; to desert.
It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.