taint (1), tainct

& a. [Fr. teint =a tincture, a dye, a stain, prop. pa. par. of teindre to stain; Lat. tin go.] [TINGE.] A. As substantive : *1. Color, hue, tinge. "Face rose-hued, cherry-red, with a silver taint like a lily." R. Greene: In Laudem Rosamunae . *2. A stain, a spot; a blemish on the reputation. "The taints and blames I laid upon myself." Shakesp.: Macbeth , iv. 3. *3. Disgrace, discredit. "Your fore-vouched affection Fallen into taint ."-Shakesp.: Lear, i. 1. 4. Something which infects, contaminates or corrupts; a corrupting influence, infection, corruption. "A taint which so universally infects mankind."- Locke : Human Understand ., bk. iii., ch. xxxiii. 5. A kind of spider of a red color, common in summer. "There is found in the summer a kind of spider called a tainct , of a red color, and so little of body that ten of the largest will hardly out-weigh a grain; this by country people is accounted a deadly poison unto cows and horses; who if they suddenly die, and swell thereon, ascribe their death hereto, and will commonly say, they have licked a tainct."-Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. iii., ch. xxvii. *B. As adj.: Tainted, stained, imbued. "A pure, unspotted heart Never yet taint with love." IMG:content-0762.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Trial, proof. (Perhaps from Fr. tenter ; Latin ten to to try, to prove.) täint-free, adj . [Eng. taint (1), s., and free .] Free from taint or infection; pure, untainted. tāint'-le , *taint-le e, a. [Eng. taint (1), s.; -le . Free from taint; untainted, taint free, pure. "The taintle flowers of blest Elysium." Browne: Britannias Pastorals , ii. 5. tāint-le -ly, adv . [Eng. taintle ; -ly .] Without taint. Zoology : Dicotyles torquatus (Cuvier), D. tajacu two species of the genus. It is about thirty-six inches long, dark gray in color, with a white or light gray band acro the chest from shoulder to shoulder. [PECCARY.] take (pa. t. * tok , * tuk , took , past par. * take , * itake , taken ), verb t . & i. [Icel. taka (pa. t. tók , pa. par. tekinn)=to lay hold of, to grasp; Sw. tag a ; O. Sw. taka ; Dan.tage; Goth.tekan (pa.t. tait ok , pa. par. tekans); Latin tango to touch. Allied words are tack, tag , tackle , attach , attack , tact , tangent, con tact , stake , stick , .] IMG:content-0763.png:[blocks in formation] "When death takes one." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece , 1,161. 5. To catch by surprise; to come upon unexpectedly; to surprise; to catch, as in a trap or snare; to circumvent; to find or take at a disadvantage. "Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iv. 2. 6. To take prisoner, to capture. "Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., iv. 4. 7. To seize, as a disease; to attack. "A most outrageous fit of madne took him." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, v. 8. To obtain or gain po e ion of by force of arms; to capture, to conquer; to cause to surrender or capitulate. "Like a Sinon take another Troy." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III . , iii. 2. 9. To catch, as a disease. take 17. To receive and accept, as something offered. (Correlative to give and opposed to refuse or reject .) "Then took I the cup at the lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink." -Jeremian xxv. 17. 18. To appropriate. "Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself."Gen. xiv. 21. 19. To understand in any particular sense or manner; to apprehend, to comprehend, to interpret. "A word unkind or wrongly taken ." Moore: Light of the Harem . 20. To receive into the mind; to hear, to learn. " Take this of me: Lucrece was not more chaste." Shakesp. Titus Andronicus, ii. L 21. To consider, to review. "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." Shakesp. Hamlet, i. 2. 22. To imagine, to suppose; to entertain in opinion; to look upon as. "Not the men you took them for."- Shakesp .: Much Ado about Nothing , iii. 3. 23. To receive with good or ill will; to feel concerning; to meet, to accept; to feel or be affected by. "Tell me how he takes it." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , i. 5. 24. To entertain, to feel, to receive. "You take pleasure in the me age?" -Shakesp .: Much Ado about Nothing , ii. 8. 25. To avail one's self of; to employ, to use, to occupy; as, to take care, to take precautions, to take steps. 26. To have recourse to; to betake one's self to; to turn to. "He took this place for sanctuary." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, v. 27. To adopt and follow; to betake one's self to. "If any be subject to vice, or take ill courses, they are reproved."- Bacon : New At lant is. 28. To seize on, to catch; not to let slip; not to neglect: as, to take an opportunity. 29. To choose and adopt as one's own; to select, to accept. " Take to thee from among the cherubim Thy choice of flaming warriors." Milton: P. L., xi. 100. 30. To submit to the hazard of; to be contented with; to put up with. "You must take your chance." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, ii. 1. 31. To accept the promise, declaration, or conditions of; to close with; to hold responsible. "Old as I am, I take thee at thy word, And will to-morrow thank thee with my sword." Dryden: Conquest of Granada , pt. 1, ii. 1. 32. To a ume, to put on, to pa into. " Take any shape but that." Shakesp.: Maobeth, iii. 4. IMG:content-0764.png:[blocks in formation] 10. To catch, as a batsman in cricket. 11. To gain or secure the interest, affection, or favor of; to captivate, to charm, to please, to attract, to allure. "Which must take the ear strangely." Shakesp.: Tempest, v. IMG:content-0765.png:[blocks in formation] transport. " Take him hence, and marry her instantly." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, v. It frequently conveys the idea of carrying and handing over; as, Take this book to him=Take this 13. To enter into po e ion of by hiring, leasing, or renting. book and hand it over to him. "If three ladies like a luckle play, Takes the whole house upon the poet's day." Pope : Horace , bk. i., ep. 6. 14. To quote, to extract; as, The pa age is taken from another author. 15. To draw, to derive, to deduce. 16. To deduct, to subtract. " Take two from twenty and leave eighteen." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, ii. 1. 40. To put or set down in writing; to note down; to make a note or memorandum of. "His confe ion is taken." Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well, iv. 3. 41. To copy, to delineate, to draw. "Our phenix queen was pourtray'd too so bright, Beauty alone could beauty take so right." Dryden: Mrs. Anne Kill i grew , 134. 42. To execute by artistic means; as, to take a photograph. 43. To obtain or ascertain by measurement. "With a two foot rule in his hand measuring my walls, he took the dimensions of the room."- Swift . 44. Not to refuse or balk at; to clear; as, A horse takes a fence. 45. To admit, to accept; as, Clay takes an impre ion easily. IMG:content-0766.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To move or direct one's course; to betake one's self; to resort, to turn. 2. To have the intended or desired effect. 3. To meet with a favorable reception; to be favorably received; to please. "Our gracious master is a precedent to his own subjects, and seasonable mementos may be useful; and being discreetly used, cannot but take well with him."- Bacon . 4. To catch; to fix or be fixed. "Lymph will not take , if, after vaccination, the person operated on be subjected to the influence of a vapor bath."- Pall Mall Gazette , March 31, 1886. 5. To admit of being represented in a photographic picture; to have the quality of coming out well in a photograph; to make a good photographic picture. 6. To be attracted by or swallow a bait. "A strong north-easterly wind prevailing, during which fish will not, as a rule, take , and are very sulky."Field, April 4, 1885. 1. To give and take: To make allowances on each side. [GIVE, 25.] 2. To take aback : To surprise, to astonish, especially in an abrupt, disappointing, and unexpected manner; to confound. 3. To take a back seat: To abandon one's pretensions. "He will have, in the expre ive parlance of American politics, to take a back seat."- Pall Mall Gazette , Dec. 5, 1885. IMG:content-0767.png:[blocks in formation] to trick. 6. To take after : (1) To learn to follow; to copy, to imitate; to follow the example of. "We cannot but think that he has taken after a good pattern."-Atterbury. (2) To resemble; as, A son takes after his father 7. To take aim : To direct the eye or a weapon; to aim. *8. To take air: To be divulged; to become known. 9. To take arms, to take up arms: To commence hostilities; to rise in arms. 10. To take a sight : [SIGHT, 8., (4).] 11. To take away: To remove, to set aside, to do away with. "If any take away from the book of this prophecy God shall take awar his part out of the book of life."-Rev. xx. 19. 12. To take breath : To stop, as one exhausted with labor or fatigue, in order to breathe or rest; to rest, refresh, or recruit one's self after exertion or fatigue. 13. To take care: (1) To be careful, vigilant, wary, or cautious. *(2) To be careful, anxious, or solicitous. (Followed by for before an object.) "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?"-1 Cor . ix. 9. 14. To take care of : To have the care or charge of; to keep watch over; to superintend. *15. To take course: To have recourse to measures. "They meant to take a course to deal with particulars by reconcilements, and cared not for any head." -Bacon. 16. To take down: (1) To bring or reduce from a higher to a lower place or position; to lower; hence to abase, to humble. (2) To crush, to reduce, to suppre . "Do you think now he is so dangerous an enemy as he is counted, or that it is so hard to take him down as some suppose?"-Spenser: State of Ireland. *(3) To swallow. "We cannot take down the lives of living creatures, which some of the Para cels i ans say, if they could be taken down, would make us immortal."- Bacon . IMG:content-0768.png:[blocks in formation] well. 20. To take fire: To become ignited; to flame up; hence, fig., to become highly excited or heated, as with anger, love, enthusiasm, or the like. "Let youth take fire! Sir Paul takes snuff" Praed: County Ball. 21. To take from : (1) To deduct, to subtract; as, to take two from four. *(2) To derogate, to detract. "It takes not from you, that you were born with princi ples of generosity; but it adds to you that you have cultivated nature."-Dryden. 22. To take heart : To pluck up courage; to become brave, confident, or courageous. [HEART, 8., 1. 2. (4), 35.] 23. To take heed: To be careful, wary, or cautious. 24. To take heed to (or unto): To attend to with care. "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not with my tongue."- Psalm xxxix. 1. 25. To take hold : To seize, to grasp; to gain control or power over. (Followed by of , sometimes by on .) "Judgment and sorrow take hold on thee." -Job xxxvi. 17. 26. To take horse: (1) Ord. Lang.: To mount and ride a horse or horses. "And there ta'en horse to tell the camp what deeds are done in Rome." Macaulay: Virginia. (2) Mining : A vein of ore is said to take horse when it divides on each side of a body of non-metalliferous rock, called dead-ground. 27. To take in: (1) To receive, admit, or bring into one's house. company, or the like; to entertain. "I was a stranger and ye took me in ."- Matt . xxv. 35. (2) To inclose, fence in, or reclaim, as land. "Upon the sea-coast are parcels of land that would pay well for the taking in ."-Mortimer: Husbandry. (3) To give admi ion to; to allow to enter; as, A ship takes in water. (4) To encompa , to embrace, to include, to comprehend. "These heads are sufficient for the explication of this whole matter: taking in some additional discourses, which make the work more even."-Burnet. (5) To reduce into a le compa ; to le en, to contract. "If fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale Take half thy canvas in ." Cowper: Horace; Odes ii. 10. (6) To receive or admit into the mind or understanding; to comprehend; to admit the truth of; as, I cannot take that story in . *(7) To win or gain by conquest; to capture. "He sent Asan-aga with the janizaries, and pieces of great ordnance, to take in the other cities of Tunis."Knolles: Hist. Turkes. (8) To be a regular subscriber to; to receive or take regularly; as, to take in a newspaper. (9) To circumvent, to cozen, to cheat, to deceive. ( Colloq .) "It is curious that so able a man could have believed that he could in this way take in the British public." Gentleman's Magazine, June, 1883, p. 569. 28. To take in hand: To undertake to manage, perform, or execute. 29. To take in vain : To utter or use unnece arily, carele ly, or profanely, as an oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Exodus xx. 7. 30. To take it out : To exact or compel satisfaction or an equivalent. A rich man is said to take it (his money) out in fine footmen, fine feeding, .; a poor man takes it (his trouble ) out in drink. ( Slang Dict .) 31. To take leave . (1) To bid farewell; to depart. take 33. To take oath: To swear judicially. *34. To take oath of: To administer an oath to. 35. To take off : (1) To remove or lift from the surface or outside. ( Exodus xxxiv. 34.) (2) To remove or transport to another place. *(3) To remove; to take away. "To take off so much grief from you." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, v. 3. (4) To deduct from; as, to take a penny of the income-tax. *(5) To put to death; to kill, to execute; to do away with. (6) To retract, to withdraw. " Take it [a sentence of banishment] of again." Shakesp.: Richard II., iii. 3. *(7) To invalidate, to le en, to weaken. "This takes not of the force of our former evidence." Stilling fleet . (8) To withdraw; to abstract, to draw off. "Keep foreign ideas from taking off our mind from its present pursuit."- Locke . (9) To swallow; to drink off or out. "Were the pleasure of drinking accompanied, the moment a man takes off his gla , with that sick stomach which, in some men, follows not many hours after, no body would ever let wine touch his lips."- Locke . *(10) To make a copy of; to reproduce. (11) To mimic, to imitate, to ridicule, to caricature; to make game of by imitation. *(12) To purchase; to take in trade. "The Spaniards, having no commodities that we will take off , above the value of one hundred you sand pounds per annum, cannot pay us."-Locke. *(13) To find place for; to dispose of; to accommodate. "The multiplying of nobility brings a state to nece ity; and, in like manner, when more are bred scholars than preferments can take of."- Bacon . (14) To start to jump; as, A horse takes of too soon at a fence. 36. To take on (or upon ): (1) To undertake the charge, execution, responsibility, ., of; to a ume, to appropriate, to bear. "Ye take too much upon you."- Numbers xvi. 3. (2) To be violently affected; to mourn, to fret. ( Colloq .) "How will my mother, for a father's death, Take on with me, and ne'er be satisfied?" Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . III . ii. 5. *(3) To a ume a character; to act a part. "I take not on me here as a physician." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . II ., iv. 1. 31. To take one's part: To espouse one's cause; to defend or support one. *38. To take order with : To exercise authority; to take measures; to check. "Though he would have turned his teeth upon Spain, yet he was taken order with before it came to that." Bacon . 39. To take out: (1) To remove from within a place, or from a number of other things. "All thy friends which thou must make thy friends Have but their stings and teeth newly taken out." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., iv. 4. (2) To remove by cleansing, erasure, or the like; as, to take out a stain, a blot, . (3) To put away; to put an end to; as, to take the pride out of a person, to take the strength out of a person. (4) To obtain or accept as an equivalent; as, He took the value out in money. (5) To ascertain by measurement and calculation; as, to take out quantities for a work. (6) To procure for one's self; to obtain; to get drawn, granted, or executed for one's own use; as, to take out a patent, to take out a summons. *(7) To copy. ( Shakesp .: Othello , iii. 4.) 40. To take pains : To exert one's self; to use all one's skill, care, or the like. 41 To take part in: To share in; to partake of. 42. To take place: (1) To happen; to come to pa ; to occur. *(2) To have effect; to prevail. "Where arms take place all other pleas are vain; "Love taught me force, and force shall love maintain." Dryden. ( Todd .) 43. To take root : (1) To form or strike a root; as, A plant takes (2) To a ume or use a certain degree of liberty root. or license; to permit to one's self. 32. To take notice : (1) To regard or observe with attention; to watch carefully; to give attention to. IMG:content-0769.png:[blocks in formation] *(2) To be contented to receive; to put up with. "The a takes up with that for his satisfaction, which he reckoned upon before for his misfortune."-L'Es- 56. To take up : (1) To lift, to raise. IMG:content-0770.png:[blocks in formation] "Every hound was up at the take ."- Field , Jan. 23, 1886. 2. That which is taken; the quantity or amount of anything taken or received; especially the quan- tity of fish caught at one time; catch. "They begrudge the large takes of these fish which they say the fishermen obtain."- Field , Oct. 3, 1885. *3. A witch's charm. "He hath a take upon him."-Quack's Academy. (1678.) II. Print .: The portion of copy taken by a com- posit or at one time. 1. A fraud, a cheat, an imposition. ( Colloq .) 2. The person who cheats or imposes on another. take-off, s . 1. An imitation of another, especially by way of caricature. IMG:content-0771.png:[blocks in formation] Print .: To remove (the sheets) from a machine in representations of that or pre . take-up, s . 1. Sewing - machine : A device in a sewing-machine to draw upon the upper thread to take up its slack while the needle is rising, or resting at its highest point, to tighten the stitch. The independent take-up is one which acts in its own time without IMG:content-0772.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0773.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0774.png:[blocks in formation] "Do I fully trust in God, as the giver and taker away of all earthly things?"-Gilpin: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 37. taker-off, 8. Print.: A person (usually a lad) employed to take off the sheets from a machine as they are printed. *tạ-kig-ra-phy, s . [TACHYGRAPHY.] tāk-ing, pr . par., a. & s. [ΤΑΚΕ, υ.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Pleasing, alluring, attracting, engaging. Pepacton , p. 276. "So taking amid the ripening grain."-Burroughs: †2. Infectious, catching; as, The itch is very tak- ing. ( Colloq .) 1. The act of one who takes; the act of gaining po e ion, seizing, accepting, or the like; seizure, apprehension, capture. "The manner of their taking may appear At large discoursed in this paper here." appear, Shakesp.: Richard II ., v. 6. talc tălc, s. [Etym. doubtful; prob. from Arab. talk; Ger. talck, talk.] Mineralogy : 3993 tāle (1), s. [TAIL.] talented tal-ent (1), *tal-ente, s . [Fr. talent a talent in money, will, desire, earnest humor to, from Lat. talentum ; Gr. talant on =a balance, a weight, sum of money, a talent, from the same root as talas (gen it. talantos ) =bearing, enduring; etlen =I endured; Lat. tolero to tolerate; tollo =to lift, to sustain; Sansc. tul =to lift, to weigh; tulana =lifting; tulda balance, a weight; Sp. talante , talento ; Ital. & Port.talanto .] IMG:content-0775.jpg:[blocks in formation] anything disclosed; information. 1. An orthorhombic mineral occurring in short hexagonal prisms and plates, also in globular and stellated groups, compact, ma ive. Cleavage, basal; hardne , 1 to 15; specific gravity, 2.565 to 2-8; luster, pearly; color, apple-green, white, shades of gray; sectile; feel, greasy. Composition, varying with the amount of water present, but e entially a hydrated silicate of magnesia which, when pure, would contain: Silica, 620; magnesia, 33'1; water 4-9=100, the formula being 6MgO5SiO2+2HO. Dana divides as follows: (1) Foliated; (2) Ma ive (steatite or soapstone); (a) Coarse Granular, including potstone; (b) Cryptocrystalline (French chalk); (c) Ren elaerite, cryptocrystalline, but more often pseudomorphous; (d) Indurated, a very abundant mineral. Being thoroughly incombustible, it is of great value in the manufacture of fire proof wall-paper, paper window-curtains, . Even in its crude state it is found to yield one of the best lubricants known. Mixed with common grades of soap, it makes them as pleasant to the touch as the choicest brands, rendering the skin smooth and soft, although entirely without any cleaning qualities. It is also largely used in the manufacture of patent wall plaster, in which its addition gives a smooth, glo y finish to walls and ceilings that no other substance lends. Talc powder, duly refined, is exquisitely soft and fine grained. Hence it makes an excellent infant powder, softening the tenderest skin and preventing chafing, irritation, or even "prickly heat," as will no other substance. So, too, it makes an unsurpa ed molding sand for casting metals in, both its fire-proof and fire-grained qualities being very valuable in fine work. Mixed with rubber, it renders it more elastic and le liable to crack. From it is also made the "French chalk" used by tailors, and shoe-dealers use it in the pow is run. dered form to enable one to pull on a tight-fitting shoe. The richest talc mines are now being worked in Cherokee County, North Carolina, where it is found in leaves and scales, very much like slate. 2. A commercial name for mica (q. v.). Oil of talc : [OIL OF TALC.] talc-apatite, s. Min .: An apatite found in chlorite schist in the Urals, containing a large percentage of magnesia replacing lime. A magnesium-apatite. IMG:content-0776.png:[blocks in formation] "And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." IMG:content-0777.png:[blocks in formation] B. As subst.: The act, habit, or practice of spreading tales or reports officiously; communication of secrets maliciously. tā-lěd, tal-ith, subst. 1. A name given by Thomson to a white mus- (Heb. talith .] covite (q. v.) from Wicklow. 2. Kirwan's name for a ma ive scaly talc.