Word Meanings - OVERGIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give over; to surrender; to yield. Spenser.

YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
YIELDING
Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
YIELDER
One who yields. Shak.
SURRENDEROR
One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
YIELDLESS
Without yielding; unyielding.
SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
SURRENDERER
One who surrenders.
YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
SURRENDER
To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
SURRENDEREE
The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W.
DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.