What is "to give on"

Give \Give\, v. i.

1. To give a gift or gifts.

2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

3. To become soft or moist. [Obs.]
   --Bacon .

4. To move; to recede.

   Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.
   --Daniel.

5. To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.]

   Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter.
   --Shak.

6. To have a misgiving. [Obs.]

   My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women.
   --J. Webster.

7. To open; to lead. [A Gallicism] This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk. --Tennyson. To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat. They gave back and came no farther. --Bunyan. To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition. The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. --Hayward. This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases. --Pope. To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] --Locke. To give on or To give upon.

   1. To rush; to fall upon. [Obs.]

   2. To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look toward; to open upon; to front; to face. [A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.] Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch. --Tennyson. The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave. --Dickens. To give out.

      1. To expend all one's strength. Hence:

      2. To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out.

         To give over, to cease; to discontinue; to desist.

         It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.
         --Addison.

         To give up, to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never give up.