Take

tak, r. (. [imp. took (t<56k): p. p. taken (tak'n); taking.] To lay jiest ot Tailor-bird, hold of, seize with the hands, or otherwise; to get into one's hold or po e ion; obtain po e ion of by force or artifice, capture; come upon or befall, attack, seize; to captivate, terest, charm; to make selection of, choose, have course to; to employ, use, demand, require; to a likene of, delineate; to a ume, acquire (shape); to permit to one's self, enjoy or experience revenge, delight, shame); to form and adopt resolution); to accept (something offered); to take of, swallow; to undertake readily, surmount, leap; to submit to, tolerate, endure; to admit (something presented to the mind); to receive in thought, understand, interpret, suppose; to admit, receive, bear, agree with; to convey, move, remove, conduct, transfer, recover, a ume, etc. — v. i. To catch, be fixed; to have the intended or natural effect; please, gain reception; to move or direct the course, betake one's self, go.— n. The quantity of fish tured at one haul or catch. (Print.) The quantity of copy taken in hand by a compositor at one — To take advantage of. To catch by surprise, use of a favorable state of things to the prejudice — To t. aim. To aim. — To t. clown. To reduce, bring lower, depre ; to swallow; to pull down, pull to pieces; to record, write down: to attack, make an attack upon.— To t. effect. To have intended effect, be efficacious. "— To t. heart. gain confidence or courage. — 'To t. in. To inclose, fence; to encompa or embrace, comprise; to into a smaller compa , contract, furl; to cheat, cumvent, deceive: to admit, receive; to understand, comprehend. — To t. in hand. To undertake, tempt to execute. — To t. in rain. To use unnece arily, carele ly, or profanely. — To 1. leave. To farewell.— To t. notice. To observe with particular attention; to show by some act that observation made. — To t. oath. To swear in a judicial manner. — To t. off. To remove (from the surface, top, outside); to cut off; to destroj'; to invalidate withdraw, call or draw away; to swallow; to chase, take in trade, to copy, reproduce, imitate, mimic. — To t. out. To remove from within a separate, deduct; to draw out, clear or cleanse — To t. place. To happen, come to pa . — roo i. To live and grow, as a plant: to be established, as principles. — To t. advantage of. To use any vantage offered by, employ to advantage; to by cunning, use circumstances to the prejudice — To t. to heart. To be sensibly affected by; to heirs, sensibly.— To t. up. To lift, raise; to buy or borrow; to begin; to engro , employ; to seize, catch, arrest; to admit, believe; to reprimand; to begin where another left off: to occupy, fill; to a ume, carry on or manage for another; to comprise, include; to adopt, a ume; to receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of a isting; to favor; to collect: to exact (a tax); to pay and receive. — To t. upon'one's self. To a umes undertake; to appropriate to one's self, allow to be imputed to one's self.— To t. after. To learn to follow, copy, imitate; to resemble. — To t. on. To be violently affected. — To t. to. To apply to, be fond of; to resort to, betake to. — To t. up with. To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition. — Take'-ofE, n.; pi. -offs. An imitation, esp. in the way of caricature. — Tak^er, n. One who takes, receives, or apprehends. — Tak'ing, p. a. Alluring; attracting.— n. Act of gaining po e ion; agitation; excitement: distre of mind.