What is "bestows"

Usage examples of "bestows".

Now we know that it is not a devil-god but the Wise Lord who bestows or withholds the awesome royal glory.

So neither will a physician, whose province it is to cure diseases, be able to do so, though he be a person of great genius, who bestows less time on the hidden and intricate method of nature, and adapting his means thereto, than on curious and subtle speculation.

But having few roosters and admiring many men, she bestows on her lady chickens the names of distinguished gentlemen.

If the nightingale amid the leaves Bestows love and demands it, And his companion replies, And already mingles her song With his, and the rivulet from the brook With the happiness of the meadow Feels joy in its heart.