getting (geting)

[ Get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Prov. iv. 7. 2. Procreation; generation.-3. Gain; profit. It is le dishonourable to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings . Bacon , Expense (ed. 1887) Bar. Is 't po ible he should be rich? Lop. Most po ible; He hath been long, though he had but little gettings , Drawing together, sir. Fletcher , Spanish Curate, iv. 5. To my great discontent, do find that my gettings this year have been 573/. le than my last. Pepys , Diary, III. 37. getting-rock (get'ing-rok), n. In coal-mining, clay ironstone which forms the roof of the coal, and is so situated that it can be got or mined at the same time with the coal itself. [Eng.] get-up (get'up), n. [ get up , verbal phrase: see get1 .] 1. Equipment; dre ; appearance; style. There is an air of pastoral simplicity about their whole get - up . H. Kingsley, Raven shoe, xliii. A New York belle, I suppose, from her get - up . Maud Howe , A Newport Aquarelle, p. 5. 2. The general manner or style of production; external appearance or qualities: as, the get up of the book is excellent. A hand-book as correct in its statements as this one is neat in its get - up. The American, XII. 106, We can do little more than enumerate the publications of the Sunday School Union. They are all attractive in form and get - up, and suitable in character for their more especial purpose. Brit. Quarterly Rev., LXXXIII, 231. [Colloq. in both senses.] No get of any such sire shall be exempt, etc. them! B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii. To get down, to descend; come from an elevation.- To get drunk, to become intoxicated. To get even get2t, n. See jet1 . with. See event, a. - To get home, to arrive at one's get3t, n. An obsolete form of jet2. Chaucer. place of residence. To get in. (a) To obtain or make an entrance; make way into a place, or to an inner or a terminal point: as, no more pa engers can get in; the steamer got in to-day. (b) In falconry, to go up to a hawk when she has killed her quarry. Encyc. Brit. To get in on the ground floor. See floor. To get near, to approach nearly. To get off. (a) To escape; get clear. (b) To alight; descend. To get on. (a) To mount. (b) To proceed; advance; succeed; prosper. To get on for or to, to approach; come near to; enter upon; as, she is getting on to middle age. [Colloq.] I was about getting on for twelve when father first bought me a concertina. Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 193. To get on the high horse. See horse. To get on with, to keep on satisfactory or friendly terms with: as, there is no getting on with a suspicious man. There is no trouble in getting on with Butler. He is just as well content with half a loaf as he would be with the whole. S. Bowles , in Merriam, II. 421. To get out. (a) To escape, as from confinement or embarra ment; depart; go away; clear out: as, take your hat, and get out; you were lucky to get out of their clutches without lo . When they were got out of the wilderne , they presently saw a Town before them. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , p. 153. (b) To come out: leak out; become known as, the secret soon got out. - To get over. (a) To surmount; overcome: as, to get over a wall; to get over difficulties. Some [travelers] get over the prejudices of education, of being bigotted to their own [customs), and learn to conform to such as either innocentostavenient to the several countries they visit. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 277. getable, gettable (get'a-bl), a. [ Chaucer .