1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] Pope.
3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. — Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. Shak.
GIZZARD Giz"zard, n. Etym: [F. gésier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.]
1. (Anat.)
Defn: The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. — To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. — To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]
GLABELLA Gla*bel"la, n.; pl. Glabell. Etym: [NL., fr. L. glabellus hairless, fr. glaber bald.] (Anat.)
Defn: The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. — Gla*bel"lar, a.
GLABELLUM
Gla*bel"lum, n.; pl. Glabella. Etym: [NL. See Glabella.] (Zoöl.)