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Gift :: Gift (v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession..

Corban :: Corban (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited..

Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..

Meed :: Meed (n.) A gift; also, a bride..

Philopena :: Philopena (n.) A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself..

Boon :: Boon (n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.

Plutus :: Plutus (n.) The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit..

Gifting :: Gifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gif.

Vouchsafement :: Vouchsafement (n.) The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension..

Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Munnerary :: Munnerary (a.) Having the nature of a gift.

Liberal :: Liberal (a.) Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water..

Congruity :: Congruity (n.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace..

Handsel :: Handsel (n.) A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc..

Tip :: Tip (n.) A gift; a douceur; a fee.

Sportulary :: Sportula (n.) A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess..

Dower :: Dower (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

Foregift :: Foregift (n.) A premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease.

Inure :: Inure (v. i.) To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs..

Glossolaly :: Glossolaly (n.) The gift of tongues. Farrar.

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