: to make a present of
: to grant or bestow by formal action
: to accord or yield to another
: capacity or tendency to yield to force or strain : flexibility
: the ability of a material to bend or stretch
: some person : somebody
: to make or emit a tinkle or a sound suggestive of a tinkle
: urinate
: to sound or make known (the time) by a tinkle
: a series of short high ringing or clinking sounds
: a jingling effect in verse or prose
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