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[F. gestion, Is she a woman that objects this sight, able to worke the chaos of the world into gestion ? Chapman , Humorous Day's Mirth, p. 79. 2. In French law, administration in office. the carrying of prematurely born young in the mammary pouch or marsupium, where they adhere to the nipples, as is usual with marsupial mammals. Oral gestation, the carrying of eggs in the mouth till they hatch, as is done by many fishes. - Uterine gestation, the ordinary gest a- tion or pregnancy of mammals. gestatorium (jes-ta-tō'ri-um), n.; pl. gest at or i a (-a). [ML.. gestare , bear, carry: see ges- tant .] In the middle ages, a portable object or utensil, specifically an ecclesiastical utensil, such as a portable shrine, a feretory for relics, or the like. IMG:content-2258.png:[blocks in formation] Fifty clodede [clothed] gestours , To many men he dede honours, In countreys fer and nere. IMG:content-2259.png:[blocks in formation] Some be as toyinge, gesturous , and counterfeicting of any. thing by ymitation, as Apes. Touchstone of Complexions , p. 97. geswarp (ges'wârp), n . See gue - warp . getl (get), v.; pret. got ( gat , obs.), pp. got or gotten , ppr. getting . [Formerly also gett ; dial. git ; ME. geten (rarely zeten , pret. gat , pl. gaten , geten , pp. geten , later goten ), git an , gytan, gietan , take, obtain, very rare in the simple form, but frequent in comp., a - git an , get, and- git an, on-git an, understand, an - git an , on - git an , seize upon, be - git an (> E. beget ), for - git an (> E. forget ), ofer - git an , forget, under - git an , under- stand (pret. -geat , pl. -geáton , pp. -geten), and in the other tongues usually in like com- pounds; = OS. bi - get an , far - get an = OFries. ur - jet a , for - jet a = MD. ver - ghiten , D. ver-geten = MLG. vor- getten , LG. ver- geten = OHG. ir- gezzan, pi- gezzan , fer - gezzan , MHG. vergezzen , IMG:content-2260.png:[blocks in formation] 10. In compound tense-phrases with have and had , used pleonastically (thus, I have got , I had got = I have, I had) to indicate either (a) pos- se ion, as he has got a cold; what have you got in your hand? or (b) obligation or nece ity, as he has got to go, you have got to obey (= he has to go, you have to obey, but colloquially with more emphatic meaning). Thou hast got the face of a man. Get you (or thee) gone, go; be off; begone. G. verges sen ODan.for - gætte , forget (cf. Sw.gitta Dan.gide, feel inclined to, gjette , gue ), = Goth. bi - git an , find, obtain, = L. -hendere (√hed), in comp. prehend ere, contr. prendere , seize (> ult. E. pre- hend, etc., prizel , prison , etc.), and in præda , booty, prey (> E. prey), prædium, property, estate, hedera , ivy (that which clings), etc.; = Gr. χανδάνειν (ν χαδ), seize: the orig. mean- ing being 'seize, take,' whence the wide range of special applications, to expre any kind of handte. See hand . To get info lay up; store literal or figurative attainment.] I. trans. 1. To obtain; procure; gain; win; attain to; ac- quire by any means: as, to get favor by service, or wealth by industry; to get a good price; to get an advantage; to get po e ion; to get fame or honor. IMG:content-2261.png:[blocks in formation] I told you 'twas in vain to think of getting Money out of her: She says, if a Shilling wou'd do 't, she wou'd not save you from starving or hanging. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, v. 1. In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 2. Specifically, to obtain by labor; earn; win by habitual effort: as, to get one's own living; to get coal. As a technical term in coal-mining, getting includes all the operations, from the holing or undercut- ting of the coal to the hauling of it to the shaft ready to be raised to the surface. A. Bain , Corr. of Forces, p. 230. gesture (jes'tūr), v .; pret. and pp. gestured , ppr. gesturing. [gesture, n.] I. in trans. To ges- 3. To beget; procreate; generate. ticulate; make gestures. I am a true labourer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. For the plaiers, who were sent for out of Hetruria, as they daunced the measures to the minstrel and sound of flute, gestured not undecently with all, after the Tuscane fashion. Holland , tr. of Livy, p. 250. Meanwhile our poets in high parliament Sit watching every word and gesture ment . commit to memory; learn: as, to get a le on. Lo, Yates! without the least fine e of art, He gets applause-I wish he'd get his part. His stock, a few French phrases got by heart, With much to learn, but nothing to impart. Cowper , Progre of Error, 1. 375. 5. To prevail on; induce; persuade. Their king Groffarius [they] get to raise his pow'rful force; Who, must'ring up an host of mingled foot and horse, Upon the Troians set. Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 443. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 239. 6. To cause or procure to be: with a past par- ticiple qualifying the object: as, to get a thing done. Those things I bid you do; get them dispatch'd. Shak ., Cymbeline, i. 4. Put Lord Bolingbroke in mind To get my warrant quickly sign'd. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. vi. 76. Neither can it be said that he who gets a wrong done by proxy is le guilty than if he had done it himself. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 167. She gets her downe in a lower roo me, Where sundrie seamen she espies. The Merchant's Daughter (Child's Ballads, IV. 330). Arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. Gen. xxx i. 13. Come, and get you to bed quickly, that you may up be- time i the morning. Beau. and Fl . , Coxcomb, iv. 7. To get one's back up, to get one's dander up, to get one's gruel, to get one's monkey up, to get one's second breath, etc. See the nouns. To get out. (a) To draw out; disengage, as a sword or a watch. (6) Το produce; reveal; bring forth. Then take him to develop, if you can, And hew the block off, and get out the man. The lark could scarce get out his notes for joy. Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. To get religion, to experience a change of heart; be- come converted. See conversion , 3. [Colloq., U. S.] The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune, And hale him up and down. Shak ., Cor., v. 4. (gt) To make up; recover. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary get Mr. Be a champ and my selfe bought this little ship, and have set her out, partly to gett up what we are formerly out. Weston, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 115. To get wind, to become known; leak out. I don't know what's the reason, but in England, if a thing of this kind [a duel] gets wind , people make such a pother, that a gentleman can never fight in peace and quietne . Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 3. To get wind of, to learn as by accident: said of something intended to be concealed. To get with child. See child. Syn. Get means to 'come into po e ion of in any way, and is thus practically synonymous with a great number of words expre ing particular phases of that notion, as gain, obtain, procure, secure, acquire, earn, bring, win, seize, steal, borrow, find, achieve, realize, beget, etc. It also runs off into a wide range of idiomatic use. II. in trans. 1. To make acquisition; gain. Whilst he was Secretary of State and Prime Minister he had gotten vastly, but spent it as hastily. Evelyn , Diary, Sept. 10, 1677. The priests get (though that is but for a time), but the king and the people lose. Penn, Liberty of Conscience, v. The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Words worth, Sonnets, i. 33. 2. To make progre in a specific direction or 2504 This is Prof. Glavinie's evidence, which it is impo ible to get over. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 163. (b) To recover from; obtain relief or release from: as, to get over a fever; to get over one's sorrow. To get quit of, to get rid of. To get rid of, to disengage one's self from; also, to shift off. Well, Sir Fretful, I wish you may be able to get rid as easily of the newspaper criticisms as you do of ours. Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. To get rid of the appearance of antagonism between sci ence and religion will of itself be one of the greatest benefits ever conferred upon the human race. J. Fiske, Idea of God, p. 134. To get round. (a) [Round, adv.] To go from place to place. (Low, U. S.] A tough waggon, a moderate load, four good horses, and a skilled driver, seem to be able in the West to go anywhere, or to get round , which amounts to the same. W. Shepherd, Prairie Experiences, p. 71. (b) [ Round , prep.] To take advantage of; circumvent; overpersuade. IMG:content-2263.png:[blocks in formation] Things that pa thus soon out of the Stomach, I sus pect, are little welcome there, and Nature makes haste to get shut of them. Lister, Journey to Paris (1698), p. 167. manner; come into a different state or relation; To get through. (a) To pa through and reach a point the transitive verb (see I., 7): followed by a modifying or explanatory word or phrase. See phrases below. Whi got thow not to horse, thow and thy peple? Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 384. Harold having once gotten into the Throne, he carried himself with great Valour and Justice for the Time he sate in it. Baker , Chronicles, p. 19. We weighed anchor and set sail, and before ten we gat through the Needles. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 6. I saw at Monte Leone some antient inscriptions, and begun to be sensible that we were got into a very bad country for travelling. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 201. I am not warm enough even now, but am gradually get ting acclimated in that respect. Hawthorne, English Note-Books, I. 12. Men's wishes eventually get expre ed in their faiths. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 177. 3. To go; start; be off. [Low, western U. S.] The driver finally mounted his box,.. and, as he yelled to them [his horses] to git, all started on a run. Rocky Mountains, p. 149. used with an infini[Colloq., PennsylSee aboard1. To get 4. To be able; manage: tive: as, I didn't get to go. vania, U. S.] To get aboard. above, to rise superior to; look down upon; as, he is getting above his busine . To get ahead, to advance; prosper. To get along, to make progre ; fare. - To get asleep, to fall asleep. To get at, to reach; come to; attain; find out: as, to get at a man in a crowd; to get at the exact truth about anything. We get at conclusions which are as nearly true as experiment can show, and sometimes which are a great deal more correct than direct experiment can be. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 204. To get away, to depart; quit; leave. To get behind, to lose ground; fall in the rear or in arrears: as, he is getting behind in his work or his payments. To get by, to pa ; get past. I am afeard they will know me: would I could get by beyond: as, the Israeli tes got through the Red Sea. (b) To come to a conclusion; finish often in the fuller form to get through with. Troops after a forced march of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through. U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 411. To get together, to meet; a emble; convene. To get up. (a) [ Up , adv.] To arise; rise from a bed or a seat. A young woman who would get up at five o'clock in the morning to embroider an antependium, and neglect the housekeeping. Mi Braddon , Hostages to Fortune, p. 3. (6) [ Up , prep.] To ascend; climb. (c) As a command to a horse: go! go ahead! [Colloq.] To get up and get, to go away; be off: get out of the way; clear out. (Low, U. S.] To get within onet, to close with an antagonist, so as to prevent him from striking. He.... set himself to resist; but I had in short space gotten within him, and, giving him a sound blow, sent to feed fishes. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. [The following specimen of the capabilities of get, transitive and intransitive, is given by Dr. Withers: I got on horseback within ten minutes after I got your letter. When I got to Canterbury, I got a chaise for town: but I got wet through before I got to Canterbury; and I have got such a cold as I shall not be able to get rid of in a hurry. I got to the Treasury about noon, but first of all I got shaved and dre ed. I soon got into the secret of getting a memorial before the board, but I could not get an answer then; however, I got intelligence from the me enger that I should likely get one the next morning. As soon as I got back to my inn, I got supper and got to bed. It was not long before I got to sleep. When I got up in the morning, I got my breakfast, and then I got myself dre ed that I might get out in time to get an answer to my memorial. As soon as I got it, I got into the chaise, and got to Canterbury by three, and about tea-time I got home. I have got nothing for you, and so adieu. P. Withers , Aristarchus (ed. 1822), p. 130.] getl (get), n. [As Sc. also written gait , geat ; getl , r.] 1. Begetting; breed; offspring: as, a horse of Dexter's get . gewgaw Thy deeds (shall be] played i thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get -penny. Marston, Jonson, and Chapman , Eastward Ho, iv. 1. But the Gunpowder Plot, there was a get - penny ! I have presented that to an eighteen or twenty pence audience, nine times in an afternoon. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v. 1. getront, n. An obsolete form of gittern . gettable, a . See getable . getter (get'er), n. 1. One who gets, gains, ob- tains, or acquires. Revolve the getter's joy and loser's pain, And think if it be worth thy while to gain. Rowe, Golden Verses of Pythagoras. 2. One who begets or procreates. Peace is a very lethargy:... a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men. Shak., Cor., iv. 5. 3. One employed in digging, or in getting out by digging: as, a coal- getter. The set who succeed the holers are called getters . These commence their operations at the centre of the wall divisions, and drive out the gibbs, or sprags, and staples. Ure, Dict., IIIL. 331.