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[Pers., take (tāk), v.; pret. took, pp. taken ( took, obs. or vulgar), ppr. taking. [Also dial. tak ( tack ); Se. also ta; ME. taken (pret. took, tok, pl. token, pp. taken, contr. tan, in pl. tane ), Oure lorde.. Swift, Strephon and Chloe. taintle ly (tant'les-li), adv . Without taint; purely. taintort (tān'tor), n. [ME., taint or , tain- tur , taint our , a dyer, tinct or , dyer, tinct us , dye: see taint1 , v. The word exists in the surname Taintor .] A dyer. The cloth was next "teased" to bring out the nap,... when it was finished and ready for the Dyer, Litter, or Lister, or the Norman Taintor or Taintur . D. R. McAnally , Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXV. 812. tainturet (tān'tūr), n. [ teinture = Pr. tentura = Sp. Pg. It. tintura , tinctura , a dyeing, a dye, tinct us , dye, tinge: see tinge , and cf. tincture , IMG:content-2783.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2784.png:[blocks in formation] Than wente Arthour in-to paryse [Paris], And toke the castelle & the town at hys avyse. Arthur (ed. Furnivall), 1. 104. Of this Castle John Nevil was left Governor by King Edward, who, sending out certain Companies, took the Earl Murray Prisoner. Baker , Chronicles, p. 119. The French King hath taken Nancy and almost all Lorain lately. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 25. ( b ) To seize; arrest; hold in custody: usually followed by up. See to take up (d). As soone as the Iuges knowe ther-of, they well make yow to be take for couetyse of youre londes and herytage, and do Iustice vpon yow. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), i. 13. Some were taken & clapt up in prison, others had their houses besett & watcht night and day. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 10. (c) To get po e ion of by means of a trap, snare, bait, or like device; catch used also of the device itself. In that Contree ther ben Bestes taughte of men to gon in to Watres, in to Ryveres, and in to depe Stankes, for to take Fysche. Mandeville , Travels, p. 209. Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. Cant. ii. 15. I will first begin with the flies of le esteem, though almost anything will take a Trout in May. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 256. (d) To obtain in marriage: as, to take a wife or a husband. To God and his sayntes me swere now thys braid That in mariage me wil be taking . Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 486. When she was fifteen, her father took a second wife. Macaulay , Mme. D'Arblay. Ye are forbidden to take to you two sisters as your E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 117. wives. (e) To secure by payment, subscription, lease, or contract: as, to take a box at the opera; to take a farm; to take a daily paper. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macaulay , Goldsmith. We went on board the little iron Swedish propeller, Carl Johan, at Lübeck, on the morning of December 1, A. D. 1856, having previously taken our pa age for Stockholm. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 13. They were always looking at palatial residences in the best situations, and always very nearly taking or buying one, but never quite concluding the bargain. Dickens , Our Mutual Friend, ii. 4. (f) To win by competition, as in a contest of ability; gain; bear off: as, to take a prize; to take honors at college. They will be content to win a thank, or take a second reward. Bacon , Suitors (ed. 1887). (g) In many games, to win; capture: as, to take the odd trick (at whist); rook takes knight (at che ). 4. To please; attract; captivate; charm. There's something in thee takes my fancies so I would not have thee perish for a world. Beau . and Fl . (?), Faithful Friends, iii. 3. Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art. B. Jonson, Epicæne, i. 1. She herself, to confe a truth, was never greatly taken with cribbage. Lamb , Mrs. Battle on Whist. 5. To attack; seize; smite; affect injuriously: said of disease, grief, or other malign influence: as, plague take the fellow; specifically, to blight or blast by or as by witchcraft. The.xx. day of apryll, John popes wyfe of comtone Had a yong chylde, that was taken sodenly, And so contynued and coude not be holpen. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 47. He [Herne the hunter] blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch-kine yield blood. Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 4. 32. Two shallops, going, laden with goods, to Connecticut, were taken in the night with an easterly storm. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 201. A plague take their balderdash! Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, i. 6. To come upon suddenly; surprise; catch. Hee is a very care full man in his Office, but if hee stay vp after Midnight you shall take him napping. Bp. Earle , Micro-cosmographie, A Constable. In their dealing with them, they took some of them in plain lies and other foul distempers. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 301. If he shou'd have taken them in the very fact po est of his goods, these Vermin would have had one hole or another to creep out at. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 89. I won't know: I'll be surpris'd; I'll be taken by Surprize. Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 5. 7. To appropriate; get for one's po e ion or use; hence, to abstract; remove; carry off. It is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose. Sir T. Browne, Urn-burial, iii. When I came to my place, I was informed that the sheik intended to take my pistols by force, if I would not agree to his proposal. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 98. Those we love first are taken first. Tennyson, To J. S. Hence, specifically - ( a ) To subtract; deduct. This her son Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart, And leave eighteen. Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 1. 60. He from Italian songsters takes his cие, Cowper, Progre of Error, 1. 112. As a rule, the older English shires bear names taken from the circumstances of the conquest, and the later ones are called after towns, many of them of later foundation than the conquest. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 113. (d) To withdraw; recall. Perhaps I'll take my word again, And may repent the same. take The Prophet had certainly taken a love for me. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 185. 15. To receive with the desired effect in use or application; hence, to be susceptible to. G. W. M. asks what to apply to type on which kerosene has been spilled to make it take ink. Sci . Amer., N. S., LXII. 204. 16. To attack and surmount, as an obstacle or difficulty; hence, to dash into, as an animal into water, or to clear or leap, as a horse or a rider Sir Hugh le Blond (Child's Ballads, III. 257). clears a fence. 8. To choose; select: as, to take sides. Sister, I joy to see you and your choice; You look'd with my eyes when you took that man. Beau . and Fl ., Maid's Tragedy, i. 2. Good commanders in the wars must be taken , be they never so ambitious; for the use of their service dispenseth with the rest. Bacon , Ambition (ed. 1887). The nicest eye could no distinction make, Where lay the advantage, or what side to take . Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 571. 9. To invest one's self with; a ume as an attribute, property, or characteristic. And some other men Say it ys the sepulcre of Josophat, And that the Vale takes the name of the seyd Josophat. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 28. The growing wonder takes a you sand shapes. Cowper , Task, v. 119. The distance takes a lovelier hue. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxv. 10. To receive; become the recipient and pos- se or of: noting ownership conferred from without, as by another person or by some cir- cum stance; especially, to receive willingly; accept, as something given or offered. He took hymself a greet profit therby. Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 46. Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward. Shak ., All's Well, ii. 1. 150. I would have paid my two Turcomen; but they would not take the money I agreed for, and went on further, so I gave them something more. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 167. To take with gratitude what Heav'n bestows. Cowper , Hope, 1. 430. 11. To be the subject of; experience. (a) To have recourse to; submit to; undergo, as any physical or material proce or operation. If a man takith circumcisioun in the Saboth, that the lawe of Moyses be not brokun, han ye indignacioun to me for I made al the man hool in the Sabot? Wyclif, John vii. 23. As jockeys take a sweat. Cowper , Progre of Error, 1. 221. Girls [in Sparta] had to take gymnastics as the boys did; but they did not go on into the discipline of the men. W. Wilson, State, § 107. (b) To feel; have a sense of: noting mental experience. Erthe, element is, euer ilkane, For my synne has sorowe tane , This wele I see. York Plays , p. 33. Whan the kynge Brangore saugh the distruxion and the grete martire, he toke ther-of grete pitee, and gan to wepe watir with his iyen. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 248. Is it not alike madne to take a pride in vain and un profitable honours? Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 7. The saddest heart might pleasure take To see all nature gay. Scott , Marmion, iv. 15. (ct) To arrive at; attain. [This] tooke such good succe e that the Garrison was cut off by the Ambuscado. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 15. 12. To submit to; endure; put up with; bear with resignation. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 1 Cor. vi. 7. Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek, To take one blow, and turn the other cheek. O. W. Holmes, Non-Resistance. She must think how she would take the blame That from her mother did her deed await. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 224. 13. To accept and act upon; be guided by; comply with: as, to take a hint or a suggestion. My ever-honour'd friend, I'll take your counsel. Fletcher , Val ent in i an, i. 3. If this advice appear the worst, E'en take the counsel which I gave you first. Pope, Imit. of Horace, I. vi. 131. 14. To be affected or infected with; acquire involuntarily and especially by communication; contract: as, to take a fancy; to take a fever. His Moskito Strikers, taking a fancy to the Boy, begg'd him of Capt. Wright, and took him with them at their return into their own Country. Dampier, Voyages, I. 181. In our anxiety that our morality should not take cold, we wrap it up in a great blanket-surtout of precaution against the breeze and sunshine. Lamb , Artificial Comedy of the Last Century. Fred (entitled to all things there) He took the fever from Mr. Vollaire. W. S. Gilbert, Baby's Vengeance. The Exe That hand which had the strength, even at your door, To cudgel you and make you take the hatch. Shak., K. John, v. 2. 138. ran in a foaming torrent, unbridged, and too wide for leaping. But Jeremy's horse took the water well. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, xlvii. 17. To receive, as into a specified relation or position; admit: as, to take a person into fellowship; to take a clerk into the firm. When St. Paul was taken into the apostolate, his commi ions were signed in these words. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 808. George Eliot , Middle march, xl. 18. To receive into the body or system, as by swallowing, inhaling, or absorbing. He has taken me into his confidence. This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat. Acts xxvii. 33, 34. Here we see how customary it was for ladies to take snuff in 1711, although Steele seems to be shocked at it as quite a new fashion in 1712. J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 210. 19. To receive into the mind; catch the sense of; understand: as, to take one's meaning. By any understanding pate but thine? Was this taken Shak., W. T., i. 2. 222. Madam, take it from me, no Man with Papers in 's Hand is more dreadful than a Poet; no, not a Lawyer with his Declarations. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, Ded. 20. Hence, to grasp the meaning of (a person); perceive the purpose of; understand the acts or words of. You take me right, Eupolis; for there is no po ibility of an holy war. Bacon, Holy War. My dear friend, you don't take me-Your friendship out-runs my explanation. Steele, Lying Lover, ii. 1. 21. To hold as one's opinion; deem; judge; suppose: often with for . Of verry righte he may be called trewe, and soo muste he be take in euery place that can deserue and lete as he ne knewe, and keep the good if he it may purchace. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 73. Of all people Ladies have no reason to cry down Ceremonies, for they take themselves slighted without it. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 31. I saw also what I took to be the bed of a canal cut in between the hills, which po ibly might be to convey water to the east. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 73. I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, ii. 7. The great point, as I take it, is to be exorbitant enough in your demands. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 1. 22. To consider; regard; view and examine. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. 187. It is generally observed that modern Rome stands higher than the ancient; some have computed it about fourteen or fifteen feet, taking one place with another. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 458). Taken by themselves and considered as characteristics of the Institute sculptors, the obvious traits of this work might, that is to say, be adjudged eccentric and empty. The Century , XLI. 19. 23. To regard or look upon, with reference to the emotion excited; be affected by, in a specified way. Hence, Mardian, And bring me how he takes my death. Shak ., A. and C., iv. 13. 10. I am sure many would take it ill to be abridged of the titles and honours of their predece ors. Capt. John Smith , Works, II. 204. I an't a man of many words, but I take it very kind of you to be so friendly, and above-board. Dickens, Dombey and Son, xvii. 24. To accept the statements, promises, or terms of; close with. Old as I am, I take thee at thy word, And will to-morrow thank thee with my sword. Dryden, Conquest of Granada, I., ii. 1. 25. To a ume as a duty or responsibility; undertake. This feende that toke this enterprise ne taried not, but in al the haste that he myght he come ther. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 3. Our taken task afresh we will a ay. J. Dennys (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 163). There was no man that would take charge of a galley; the weather was so rough, and there was such an amazedne amongst them. Munday (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 209). IMG:content-2785.png:[blocks in formation] The balance of our imports of grain, taken upon a number of years, began to exceed the balance of our exports. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, IV. 10. 27. To contain; comprehend; include. He whom the whole world could not take , The Word, which heaven and earth did make, Was now laid in a manger. B. Jonson, Hymn on the Nativity. We always take the account of a future state into our schemes about the concerns of this world. Bp. Atterbury. 28. To include in a course, as of travel; visit. The next morning I went to Da amonpeack and sent Pemi apan word I was going to Croatan, and tooke him in my way to complaine Osocon would haue stole my prisoner Skico. Ralph Layne, quoted in Capt. John Smith's Travels, I. 92. About a year since, R. B. and B. F. took that city, in the way from Frederickstadt to Amsterdam, and gave them a visit. Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. 29. To resort to; have recourse to; avail one's self of; employ, as any appliance, means, or resource capable of service. lem. The same Thursday at aftyr noon we toke our a ys at the Mownte Syon,... and rode the same nyght to Beth Tor king ton, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 46. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak ., J. C., iv. 3. 219. I tooke coach in company with two courteous Italian gentlemen. Evelyn , Diary, May 18, 1645. Take wings of fancy, and ascend. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxvi. 30. To need; require; demand: often used with an impersonal subject: as, it took all our strength to row ashore. How long do you think it will take you to bring your thoughts together? George Eliot , Felix Holt, xxiii. 31. To give; deliver. [Now rare.] There besyde is the Place where oure Lord toke to Moyses the 10 Comandementes of the Lawe. Mandeville, Travels, p. 62. Pandar us gan hym the letre take , And seyde, "Pardee! God hath holpen us." Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1318. He gaue a ryng on to Clarion as, And she toke hym another for certeyn. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 907. 32. To inflict, as a blow, on; hence, to fetch (a person or an animal) a blow; strike. Ector. toke his horse with his helis, hastid before, Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6394. Gird euon to the grekes with a grete уге. The potter yn the neke hem toke , To the gronde sone he yede. Robin Hood and the Potter (Child's Ballads, V. 21) A rascal takes him o'er the face, and fells him. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, ii. 2. Mr. William Vaux took Mr. Knightly a blow on the face. Court and Times of Charles I., I. 56. 33. To betake: used reflexively. To alle the devel les I me take,. But it was told right to myselve. Rom , of the Rose , 1. 7590. Betere bote is noon to me Than to his mercy truli me take. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 11. Art thou a craftsman? take thee to thine arte, And cast off slouth, which loytreth in the Campes. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 67. But for shame, and that I am a man at armes, I would runne away, and take me to my legs. Heywood, Four Prentises of London (Works, ed. 1874, [II. 226). 34. To conduct; escort; convey; lead or carry. Take the stranger to my house, And with you take the chain. Shak., C. of E., iv. 1. 36. Tennyson, Geraint. So Enid took his charger to the stall. I'll get him to take me about, I only a country fellow, and he up to all the ways of town. Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xli. 35. With nouns noting or implying motion, action, or procedure: to do, make, perform, execute, practise, or the like. In this sense the verb and its object often form a periphrasis for the verb suggested by the object: as, to take beginning, for to be gin; to take resolution, for to resolve; to take a walk, for to walk; so also with to take one's way, course, journey, etc., and many other phrases noting progre or procedure. The synner took penaunce with good entent, And lefte al his wickid synne. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 99. I tooke my journey there hence by Coach towards Paris. Coryat , Crudities, I. 14. Sound was the sleep he took , For he slept till it was noon. IMG:content-2786.png:[blocks in formation] He (Sir Robert Peel] was called upon at a trying moment to take a step on which a uredly much of the prosperity of the people and nearly all the hopes of his party along with his own personal reputation were imperilled. J. McCarthy, Hist. Own Times, xix. Specifically-(a) To execute by artistic means, as a drawing or painting, or a photograph; also, to obtain a likene or picture of: as, to take a person or a landscape. Here is the same face, taken within this half-hour, said the artist, presenting her with another miniature. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xx. As the young people frisked about innocently, Mr. Brackett and I succeeded in taking some half-dozen interesting and instructive groups and single figures. Harper's Mag ., LXXVIII. 626. (b) To make by writing; jot down: as, to take notes; hence, to obtain in the form of notes or other memoranda: as, to take a speech in shorthand. A chield 's amang you taking notes, An', faith, he'll prent it. Burns , Captain Grose's Peregrinations. (c) In music, to execute at a specified rate of speed; hence, to adjust at a given rate: as, to take the tempo slowly. The musical part of the service was, to begin with, taken slow-incredibly slow. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 95. 36. To admit to sexual intercourse: said of the female. Take care. See care . - Take ink, an order to put more ink on a printing-roller.- Taken aback. See aback1 . To be taken in the mainort, to be taken with the mainort. See mainor.- To be taken sick, to become sick; fall ill. To make one take the dust. See dustl . - To take aback. See taken aback, under aback1 . To take account of, to note; mark; make a note of. This man walked about and took account Of all thought, said, and acted. Browning , How it Strikes-a Con temp or aгу. To take action, a dare, advice, a grinder. See the nouns. To take advantage of. See advantage , n. - To take aim, to direct or level a weapon or a mi ile at an object. To take air. See air1 . To take a leaf out of one's book. See book . To take ami . See ami . -To take a name in vain, an insult, a rise out of. See namel, insult, risel . To take arms. See arm2.To take a season, a seat, a side, a step, a turn. See the nouns. To take a thing in snufft. See snuff 1.To take back, to withdraw; recall; retract. [Colloq.] I've disgusted you - I see that; but I didn't mean to. I-I take it back . Howells , Silas Lapham, xv. To take bail for. See bail2 . - To take battlet, to fight. And y in his quarel took bataile Azen my fadir to amend his mys. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 50. To take bearings. See bearing . - To take bogt. See bog2. To take breath, or to take a long breath, to pause, as from labor or exertion, in order to breathe or rest; rest, refresh, or recruit one's self after fatigue. Before I proceed, I would take some breath . Bacon . The world slumbered or took breath in his [Hippo crates's] resolutions divers hundreds of years. Donne , Letters, xvii. To take by storm, by the hand, etc. See the nouns. -To take captive. See captive . - To take checkt, cold, counsel, courset. See the nouns. - To take down. (a) To lower the power, spirit, pride, or vanity of; abase; humble: as, to take down a conceited upstart. Compare to take down a peg , under peg . Doe you thinke he is no we soe daungerous an enemye as he is counted, or that it is soe harde to take him downe as some suppose? Spenser , State of Ireland. In a good time that man both wins and wooes That takes his wife downe in her wedding shooes. Heywood , Woman Killed with Kindne (Works, II. 94). (b) To swallow: as, to take down a draught or a dose. Sir, kill me rather; I will take down poison, Eat burning coals, do anything. B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. 6. IMG:content-2787.png:[blocks in formation] Follow yonder fellow, and see where he takes earth. Scott, Kenilworth, iv. To take effect. See effect. - To take exception. See exception, 4.- To take fire, flay, foott, form. See the nouns. To take for granted. See grant1, v. t. - To take French leave. See French. To take heart. See heart. To take heart of grace. See grace. To take heed. (a) To beware; be careful; use caution: often followed by of or to. I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my Ps. xxxix. 1. take Asper (I urge it as your friend), take heed , The days are dangerous, full of exception. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, Ind. (b) To take notice; pay attention; attend; listen. God ne takth none hede of zuiche tales. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 175. To take hold: commonly with of or on. (a) To get a grasp or grip: as, to take hold of a rope. Ten men shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. Zech. viii. 23. (b) To gain po e ion, control, or influence. Sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palest in a. Ex. xv. 14. I pray, sir, tell me, is it po ible That love should of a sudden take such hold ? Shak ., T. of the S., i. 1. 152 (c) To take advantage; make use. Captaine Gorges tooke hold of ye opportunitie. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 149. (d) To lay hold, for or as for management or adjustment. Some take hold of suits only for an occasion to cro some other. Bacon , Suitors (ed. 1887). To take horse. See horsel. - To take huff, to become huffy or pettish; take offense. If the American actre came over, of course she would insist on playing Violante; then Mi Carmine would take huff , and there was sure to be a row! Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. vii. To take in. (at) To capture; conquer. He hath mused of taking kingdoms in . Shak ., A. and C., iii. 13. 83. Should a great beauty resolve to take me in with the artillery of her eyes, it would be as vain as for a thief to set upon a new-robbed pa enger. Suckling. (b) To receive; admit; give entrance or admittance to. By our cognation to the body of the first Adam, we took in death. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), L. 594. The captain told them we wanted to take in water. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 241. After a long day's journey of thirty-one miles, we reached a house which we had been told took in travellers. B. Hall , Travels in N. A., II. 257. (c) To receive into one's house: said of work undertaken to be done at home. His wife... had tried to help him support their family of young children by giving private le ons and by tak ing in sewing. The Century, XXXVII. 83. (d) To inclose, fence, or reclaim, as land. Upon the sea-coasts are parcels of land that would pay well for the taking in. Mortimer . (e) To encompa or embrace; include; comprehend. This love of our country is natural to every man. It takes in our families, relations, friends, and acquaintance. Add is on, Freeholder, No. 5. It may be supposed that this lake [Brulos), which is now of so great an extent, takes in all the other lakes mentioned by the antients to the east. Pococke , Description of the East, L. 16. Specifically, to include in one's course or experience, as by seeing, visiting, or enjoying. The Bensons would not be persuaded out of their fixed the White Mountains. plan to take in C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 293. (f) To reduce to smaller compa ; make le in length or width; contract; brail or furl, as a sail; make smaller, as a garment. At night we took off our main bonnet, and took in all our sails, save our main course and mizzen. Winthrop, Hist. New England, L. 21. Sure every one of me frocks must be taken in ,-it's such a skeleton I'm growing. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xliii. (g) To receive into the mind; comprehend; perceive. He took in the sense of a statement very slowly through the medium of written or even printed characters. George Eliot, Mill on the Flo , iii. 1. We only take in any discourse if our memory retains the earlier words while we are hearing those which follow. Lotze , Microcosm us (trans.), L. 220. (h) To accept as true; believe: as, he took in whatever we told him. [Colloq.] (1) To take by subscription, as a magazine or newspaper. Compare def. 3 (e). [Eng.] Few working-cla homes in England fail to take in some kind of paper on the day of rest. Nineteenth Century , XX. 110. () To dupe; cheat; gull. Hoste . I took you in last night, I say. Syntax. Tis true; and if this bill I pay, You'll take me in again to-day. W. Combe , Dr. Syntax's Tour, i. 4. ( Daries ) Some critics declared that Mr. Cobden had been simply taken in ; that the French Emperor had "bubbled" him. J. McCarthy, Hist. Own Times, xli To take in hand. See hand. To take in patiencet. See patience. - To take in the slack ( naut. ), to draw in the loose or relaxed part of a rope until it becomes tant. - To take into account. See account. To take into one's confidence. See confidence. To take into one's head, to conceive the idea of; form a plan or intention of. Apparently Rou eau was an advanced boy, for, after these clerical duties were over, and he had returned to Paris, he took it into his own head to paint a view of the Montmartre hill. The Century, XLI. 578 To take into one's own hand or hands, to a ume the management or execution of, as a personal duty, right, of privilege. take They suffer not their council to go through with the resolution and direction, as if it depended on them, but take the matter back into their own hands. Bacon , Counsel (ed. 1887). In the pre-Conquest codes the owner was generally allowed to take the law into his own hand , as in early Roman law, and get back his goods by force if he could, no doubt with the a istance of his neighbours where po ible. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 232. To take i ue. See i ue. To take it ill. See ill. To take it out of. ( a ) To obtain or extort reparation or indemnity from; compel satisfaction from. [Colloq.] .. If any one steals anything from me, and I catch him, I take it out of him on the spot. I give him a jolly good hiding. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 31. Mr. and Mrs. Boffin (as the saying is) took it out of the Inexhaustible [baby] in a shower of care es. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, iv. 13. (b) To exhaust the strength or energy of. [Colloq.] They tried back slowly and sorrowfully,... beginning to feel how the run had taken it out of them. IMG:content-2788.png:[blocks in formation] In Bethlehem I took particular notice of their ovens, which are sunk down in the ground, and have an arch turned over them. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 40. Puff . They were spies of Lord Burleigh's. Sneer. But isn't it odd, they were never taken notice of, not even by the commander-in-chief? Sheridan, The Critic, ii. 2. (b) To remark upon; make mention of. I have something to beg of you too: which is not to take notice of our Marriage to any whatever, yet a while, for some Reasons very important to me. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, v. 1. To take occasion. See occasion. - To take off. (α) Το remove: as, to take off one's hat or gloves; to have one's beard taken off. (b) To remove or transfer to another place: as, take off the prisoner to jail! take yourself off! (c) To make away with; put to death; kill. Whose execution takes your enemy off . Shak., Macbeth, iii. 1. 105. Till at last the wisdom of our Govern ours thought it fit to take him [Jesus] off , and make him an example for Reformers. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. i. (d) To deduct: used specifically of reduction of price. The justices decreed to take off a halfpenny in a quart from the price of ale. Swift , Miscellanies. ( Latham . ) (e) To withdraw; deprive, free, or relieve one of: as, to take responsibility of ; to take off a curse. Your power and your command is taken off . Shak ., Othello, v. 2. 331. Penitence does appease The incensed powers, and sacrifice takes off Their heavy angers. Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , iv. 1. (ft) To withhold; hold back; deter. No means either he, or ye letters yey write, could take off Mr. Sherley & ye rest from putting both ye Friendship and Whit-Angell on ye generall accounte. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 280. It is as plain that one great End of the Christian Doctrine was to take Mankind off from giving Divine Worship Stilling fleet, Sermons, III. vi. (g) To take in trading; purchase. to Creatures. That ve el found courteous entertainment with him, and he took off all her commodities, but not at so good rates as they expected. IMG:content-2789.png:[blocks in formation] Master, let me take you a button- hole lower. Do you not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat? Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 706. To take one napping. See napl. To take one's bells. See bell1. - To take one's chance. See chance. -To take one's ease, to make one's self comfortable. Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3. 92. To take one's gait. See gate2. - To take one's life in one's hand, to take mortal risks; act in disregard or defiance of personal danger. The other [youngster] goes out on the frontier, runs his chances in encounters with wild animals, finds that to make his way he must take his life in his hand , and a ert his rights. The Century , XXXVI. 253. To take one's mark ami , to go wide of the mark; be at fault; mistake. Sir, you talk as if you knew something more than all the world doth; and, if I take not my mark ami , I deem I have half a gue of you. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 163. To take one's part, to side with, stand by, or aid one. If the provost take our part we may bell-the-cat with the best of them. Scott , Fair Maid of Perth, vii. To take one's self seriously, to regard one's conduct, opinions, etc., with exaggerated gravity, as if above jest ing; hence, to attach a solemn importance to one's self. Your solemn a must needs take himself seriously ; the man of deep, keen, quick perception of the ludicrous can never do so. B. E. Martin, Footprints of Charles Lamb, iii. To take one's turn. See turn . - To take one tardyt. See tardy . To take on the broadside. See broadside . - To take opportunity, to take occasion; turn to advantage any incident, occurrence, or occasion. They tooke oppertunitie , and thrust Leve ten ante Fitcher out a dores, and would suffer him to come no more amongst them. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 237. To take ordert, to take orders. See order. - To take out. (a) To remove from within a place, or from a number of other things: as, to take an invalid out for a walk; to take a book out of a library. (6) To remove by cleansing or the like: as, to take out a stain or a blot. (e) To remove so as to deprive one of: as, to take the pride or nonsense out of a youngster; the running took the wind out of him. (d) To obtain or accept as an equivalent: as, he took the amount of the debt out in goods. Because of the old prover be, What they want in meate, let them take out in drinke. Heywood, Fair Maid of the West (Works, ed. 1874, II. 280). (e) To procure for one's self; get i ued for one's own use or benefit: as, to take out a patent or a summons. (ft) To copy: as, to take out a part from a manuscript play. O love, why dost thou in thy beautiful sampler set such a work for my desire to take out , which is as much imposSir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. Sweet Bianca, (h) To drink off; swallow. Where she dranke to him a cup of poysoned liquor; and hauing taken off almost halfe, she reached him the rest: which after she saw he had drunke, she called upon her husbands name aloude. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 321. (i) To reproduce; copy. It would, perhaps, be no impertinent design to take off all their models in wood, which might not only give us some notion of the ancient music, but help us to pleasanter instruments than are now in use. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 465). Hence-(1) To personate; imitate; mimic, especially in ridicule. She was always mimicking. She took off the excise man, and the farmers, and her grandmother, and the very parson, how she used to make us laugh! mimicking! why it was like a looking-gla , and the folks standing in front of it, and speaking behind it, all at one time. C. Reade, Art; a Dramatic Tale, p. 174. To take offense. See offense. - To take on or upon (one's self). (a) To put on; invest one's self with; figuratively, to a ume, as a property, characteristic, or mode of being. Christ our Lord took upon him the form of a servant. Milton, Church-Government, ii. 1. Thus it is that the grief of the pa ing moment takes upon itself an individuality, and a character of climax, which it is destined to lose after a while. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xvi. (b) To a ume as a duty or responsibility; undertake; take the burden or the blame of. The good newes.. appeased their fury; but conditionally that Ratliffe should be deposed, and that Captaine Smith would take vpon him the government. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 180. Take me this work out . IMG:content-2790.png:[blocks in formation] (6) To receive; derive. In short, whatever and however diverse may be their aims, the Gilds take over from the family the spirit which held it together and guided it. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. lxxx. To take pains. See pain1 . - To take part in or with. See part . To take pepper in the noset. See nosel.To take pity upon, place, pleasure in, po e ion, pot-luck, precedence of, rank, root, scornt, shape, ship, shippingt, sight, silk, soil, stock, strifet, tent. See the nouns. - To take the air. (a) See airl . (b) To soar: said of birds. A bird is said to take the air when it seeks to escape by trying to rise higher than the falcon. Encyc . Brit ., IX. 7 . To take the bent. See bent2. - To take the bit in the teeth. See bit1.- To take the bull by the horns. See bull i. To take the coif, the cro , the crown of the causey, the e ayt, the field, the foilt. See coif , cro 1, crown, etc. To take the ground ( naut .), to touch bottom; run aground. "A few hours after we lost sight of this brig," said the boatswain, "the ship took the ground." W. C. Ru ell, Sailor's Sweetheart, xiv. To take the hand of or fromt. Same as to take the wall of . take They both meeting in an antechamber to the secretary of state, the Spanish amba ador, leaning to the wall in that posture that he took the hand of the English amba ador, said publicly, "I hold this place in the right of the king my master"; which small punctilio, being not resented by our amba ador at that time, gave the Spaniard occasion to brag that he had taken the hand from our amba ador. Lord Herbert of Cherbury , Life (ed. Howells), p. 136. To take the laboring oar. See labor1 . - To take the law of. Same as to have the law of (which see, under lawl ). The other that rides along with him is Tom Touchy, a fellow famous for taking the law of every body. Add is on, Spectator, No. 122. To take the mantle, the measure_of, the pas, the pledge, the reins. See the nouns. To take the oath, to take a drink. [Slang, U.S.) - To take the road. ( a ) See road. (b) Same as to take to the road. See road. (c) The at., to go on a round of engagements and performances from town to town: said of a traveling company or show. - To take the say, the shilling, the shine out of, the sun, the test, the veil. See the nouns. - To take the wall of, to pa (one) on that part of the road nearest the wall (this, when there were no sidewalks, was to take the safest and best position, usually yielded to the superior in rank); hence, to get the better of in any way. To take the wind out of one's sails. See saill. - To take time by the forelock. See forelock2.- To take to heart. See heart. To take to one's bosom, to marry. - To take to pieces. ( a ) To separate into the component parts: as, to take a gun or a clock to pieces. (b) To examine piecemeal; di ect; analyze; especially, to show inherent weakne or defects in; pick to pieces. The Duke of Bedford took the treaty, and in the conclusion of his speech the ministry, to pieces. Walpole, Letters, II. 278. To take to task. See task. To take turns. See turn. - To take up. (a) To pick up; lift; raise. Who can take up the Ocean in a spoone? Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 3. They who have lost all to his Subjects may stoop and take up the reward. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, vi. (b) To take into one's company, society, etc. You are to take soldiers up in counties as you go. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 199. Our men, retyring to the water side, got their boat, and ere they had rowed a quarter of a myle towards Hatorask they tooke up foure of their fellowes. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 101. (c) To absorb: as, sponges take up water. The pleasures and pains of the higher senses are taken up into the emotion of beauty. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 478. (d) To arrest; take into custody. An officer patroles about the city [Cairol, more especially by night;... he takes up all persons he finds committing any disorders, or that cannot give an account of themselves. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 165. Policeman, take me up No doubt I am some criminal! W. S. Gilbert, Phrenology. (e) To a ume; enter upon; espouse: as, to take up a profe ion; to take up a quarrel. Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up . Shak., T. N., v. 1. 151. IMG:content-2791.png:[blocks in formation] Ezek. xxvi. 17. They shall take up a lamentation for thee. (gt) To encounter; challenge; oppose. One power against the French, And one against Glen dower: perforce a third Must take up us. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 3. 73. King Henry in the mean Time followed his Pleasures, and in June kept a solemn Just at Green wich, where he and Sir Charles Brandon took up all Comers. Baker , Chronicles, p. 256. (h) To meet and deal with; treat or dispose of satisfactorily; settle or adjust properly. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel. Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 104. (i) To catch together and fasten: as, to take up an artery; to take up dropped stitches. A large ve el opened by incision must be taken up before you proceed. Sharpe , Surgery. (1) To check with di ent, remonstrance, or rebuke. One of his relations took him up roundly, for stooping so much below the dignity of his profe ion. Sir R. L'Estrange. ( kt ) To stop; bring to a stand. For a small piece of Money a man may pa quiet enough, and for the most part only the poor are taken up . Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 78. (1) To occupy; employ; engage; engro : as, to take up room or time; to take up one's attention. He is taken up with great persons; he is not to know you to-night. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. The men take them up [the public baths] in the morning: and in the afternoon the women. Sandys , Travailes, p. 54. But his fault is onely this, that his minde is somewhat much taken op with his mind, and his thoughts not loaden with any carriage besides. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Downe-right Scholler. My first days at Naples were taken up with the sight of proce ions, which are always very magnificent in the holy week. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 424). (m) To obtain; specifically, to procure on credit; borrow. [Colloq.] I dinna believe he speaks gude Latin neither; at least he disna take me up when I tell him the learned names o' the plants. Scott , Rob Roy, xv. "I do not take you up , sir," replied the Sergeant. N. Macleod, The Starling, v. (q) To pay the amount or cost of: as, to take up a loan, note, or check; to take up bonds. - To take up a quar- relt. See quarrel . - To take up arms. See to take arms. -To take upon (one's self). See to take on. - To take up short. See short . - To take up the cro , the cud- gels, the gauntlet, the glove, the hatchet, the run- ning. See the nouns. - To take wind. See wind2. - Το take with, to accept or have as a companion; hence, to let (a person) accompany or follow one's course of thought. Soft you now, good Morgan Pigot, and take us with ye a little, I pray. What means your wisdom by all this? Peele, Edward I., ii. I will have thee put on a gown, And take upon thee as thou wert mine heir. B. Jonson, Volpone, v. L To take up with. (a) To consort or fraternize with; ao- cept as a companion or friend; keep company with. Are dogs such desirable company to take up with ? Court and Times of Charles I., I. 101. Somehow or other, she took to Ruth, and Ruth took to her. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 32. Why do your teeth like crackling crust, and your organs of taste like spongy crumb, and your digestive contri- vances take kindly to bread rather than toadstools? O. W. Holmes, Poet at the Breakfast-table, iii. 7. To betake one's self; have recourse; resort, (b) To put up with; be satisfied with. as to a place, course, means, etc.: with to . Each mounted on his prancing steed, And took to travel straight. The Seven Champions of Christen dom (Child's Ballads, I. 86). A steamer in the mid-Atlantic encountered a storm, and was so shattered that all who could took to the boats. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 264. Welong to know the site of the church of Saint Michael, which our countrymen so stoutly guarded, till the Nor- mans, Norman-like, took to their favourite weapon of fire. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 375. 9. To be or admit of being taken, in any sense: used colloquially in many phrases: as, to take sick; specifically, of game, to be caught. The small fish take freely - some go back into the water, the few in good condition into the basket. Froude , Sketches, p. 238. "I hear my chilluns call in' me," sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; "my ole 'oom an done gone en tuck mighty sick,' J. C. Harris, Uncle Remus, xvii. Guns of various sizes have been so constructed as to take to pieces and stow away in a small compa . W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 78. 10. To touch; take hold. The cradles are supported under their centres by shores on which the keel takes . Luce , Seamanship, p. 179. He takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. Swift , Death of Dr. Swift. IMG:content-2792.png:[blocks in formation] To give and take, to offer, do, or say something, and to receive the like in return: said with reference to action which takes place by turns or reciprocally, as in a set-to: often used attributively or substantively: as, a give -and- take policy; the conversation was a sort of give and take . -To take after, to pattern after; imitate; resemble. An obstinate, pa ionate, self-willed boy! - Who can he take after ? Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 1. If, when going at three parts speed, a horse's feet come just right to take off [in leaping a brook], the mere momen- tum of his body would take him over a place 15 feet wide. Encyc . Brit ., XII. 198. The other two headwaters of the Hugli bear witne to not le memorable vici itudes. The second of them takes off from the Ganges about forty miles eastward from the Bhagirathi. Nineteenth Century, XXIII. 44. city of his diction, while they afford no strength what- ever to his descriptions. Gifford , Introd. to Ford's Plays, p. xliii. And if so be that pees hereafter take , As alday happeth after anger game. [The printed editions all have or insert a be before take , but the MSS. do not have it, and it is objectionable on the score of meter.] Fetch him off, fetch him off! I am sure he's clouted, Did I not tell you how 'twould take ? 4. To take effect; work; act; operate. I have had strategems and ambuscadoes; But, God be thanked, they have never took ! Beau, and Fl . , Woman-Hater, v. 2. Glad you got through with the pock so well it takes a second time, some say - it's worse than horn-ail, hoven, S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 5. Rub the solder in until it takes , which will be in a mo- ment. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LIX. 264. I take onne , as one do the that playeth his sterakels, je taken1 (tā'kn). Past participle of take . tempeste. Palsgrave. ( Hall i well , under sterracles .) Lady Both well could not make herself easy; yet she was sensible that her sister hurt her own cause by taking on, as the maid-servants call it, too vehemently. Scott , My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, i. There's Mi is walking about the drawing-room taking Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. xxii. To take on one. See to take upon one. To take to. (a) See defs. 6 and 7. (b) To set about doing something; fall to; take a hand in: as, to take to rising early; to take to cards or billiards. - To take to one's heels. See heel1 . To take to the road. See road . To take up. (at) To stop; hold up. Sir, it is time to take up , for I know that anything from this place, as soon as it is certain, is stale. Donne , Letters, xlvii. Coz. Be not rapt so. Cont. Your Excellence would be so, had you seen her. Coz . Take up , take up . Mas singer , Great Duke of Florence, i. 2. The Good has borrowed old Bowman's house in Kent, and is retiring thither for six weeks: I tell her she has lived so rakish a life that she is obliged to go and take up . Walpole , Letters, II. 28. (c) To clear up: said of the weather. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] (d) To begin: as, school takes up next week. [Scotch, and local, U. S.] (e) To obtain a loan; borrow or obtain goods on credit. (f) In mech., to close spontaneously, as a small leak in a steam-pipe or water-pipe. To take upon (or on) one, to a ume a character or part; play a specified rôle; act: followed by as or like . Like some great horse he paceth vp and downe,... And takes vpon him in each company As if he held some petty monarchy. taker (tā'ker), n. [ take + -er1.] One who takes, in any sense; specifically, a purveyor. As for capons ye can gette none, The kyngys taker toke up eche one. Interlude of the iij . Elements , n. d. ( Hall i well .) Cheerful and grateful takers the gods love, And such as wait their pleasures with full hopes. taket