gyve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gyve
1175–1225; Middle English give < ?
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The brede yt I shall gyve / my body it is / for the lyf of the worlde.
From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Thomas Betson
And still in the white neat bed I strive Most impotently against that gyve; Being less now than a thought, even, To you alone with your hills and heaven.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
Nay, no gyve, no touch, was laid on me!
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
The alguazil fled, leaving me one leg free, the other burdened by the gyve, and as he fled so fled all others, being thus taken unawares.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
Item, I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture.
From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson
So many millions of persons, all gyved, and nigh strangled, with formulas; whose Life nevertheless, at least the digestion and hunger of it, was real enough!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
By Romulus, he is all soul, I think; He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved; Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free, And Martius walks now in captivity.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
They are fettered and gyved by what they have said and done.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard
He twisted his two gyved hands around and got one of them into his coat pocket.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck
So gyved, lagged the hope of the independents to his task.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
To mourn in plasmic Temple's fold With gyving sod no King can shirk!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
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