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Webster 1913 Edition


Yive

Yive

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
To give.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


yive

yive

English

Verb

yive (third-person singular simple present yives, present participle yiving, simple past yave, past participle yiven)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To give.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of John Gower to this entry?):
      To yive a man so litel thing / It were unworschipe in a king.