English Dictionary: give a damn | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gibbet \Gib"bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gibbeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gibbeting}.] 1. To hang and expose on a gibbet. 2. To expose to infamy; to blacken. I'll gibbet up his name. --Oldham. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gift \Gift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gifted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gifting}.] To endow with some power or faculty. He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. --I. Taylor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Go-between \Go"-be*tween`\, n. An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. --Shak. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Gibbethon a height, a city of the Philistines in the territory of Dan, given to the Kohathites (Josh. 19:44; 21:23). Nadab the king of Israel, while besieging it, was slain under its walls by Baasha, one of his own officers (1 Kings 15:27). It was in the possession of the Philistines after the secession of the ten tribes (2 Chr. 11:13, 14). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Gibbethon, a back; a high house |