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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr & vb n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense To lay hold of to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away to convey. Hence specifically: a To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of to reduce into subjection to one's power or will to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as to take am army, a city, or a ship; also to come upon or befall; to fasten on to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. --Pope. They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon. There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak. b To gain or secure the interest or affection of to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. --Prov. vi 25. Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. --Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. --Moore. c To make selection of to choose also to turn to to have recourse to as to take the road to the right Saul said Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken --1 Sam. xiv. 42. The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. --Hammond. d To employ; to use to occupy; hence to demand; to require; as it takes so much cloth to make a coat. This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. --I. Watts. e To form a likeness of to copy; to delineate; to picture; as to take picture of a person. Beauty alone could beauty take so right --Dryden. f To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.] The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. --Tillotson. g To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self to indulge or engage in to yield to to have or feel to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say h To lead; to conduct; as to take a child to church. i To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over as he took the book to the bindery. He took me certain gold, I wot it well --Chaucer. k To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from as to take the breath from one to take two from four 2. In a somewhat passive sense to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept Specifically: a To accept as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. --Num. xxxv. 31. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. --1 Tim. v. 10. b To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of to swallow; as to take food or wine. c Not to refuse or balk at to undertake readily; to clear; as to take a hedge or fence. d To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to to tolerate; to endure; as to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man. e To admit as something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow to accept to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon to consider; to suppose; as to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies. You take me right --Bacon. Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor. --Wake. [He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South. You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. --Tate. f To accept the word or offer of to receive and accept to bear; to submit to to enter into agreement with -- used in general senses as to take a form or shape. I take thee at thy word --Rowe. Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold. --Dryden. {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air}, etc See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey. {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities. {To take away}, to carry off to remove; to cause deprivation of to do away with as a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. ``By your own law, I take your life away.'' --Dryden. {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. ``Doth God take care for oxen?'' --1 Cor. ix 9. {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of to care for to superintend or oversee. {To take down}. a To reduce; to bring down as from a high, or higher, place as to take down a book; hence to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as to take down pride, or the proud. ``I never attempted to be impudent yet that I was not taken down.'' --Goldsmith. b To swallow; as to take down a potion. c To pull down to pull to pieces; as to take down a house or a scaffold. d To record; to write down as to take down a man's words at the time he utters them {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and {Fire}. {To take ground to the right} or {to the left} (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left to move as troops, to the right or left {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. ``Take heed what doom against yourself you give.'' --Dryden. {To take heed to}, to attend with care as take heed to thy ways. {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse. {To take in}. a To inclose; to fence. b To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. c To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as to take in sail. d To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] e To admit to receive; as a leaky vessel will take in water. f To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in --Chapman. g To receive into the mind or understanding. ``Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions.'' --I. Watts. h To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take [Eng.] {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}. {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. ``Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.'' --Ex. xx 7. {To take issue}. See under {Issue}. {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2. {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}. {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. {To take off}. a To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything as to take off a load; to take off one's hat. b To cut off as to take off the head, or a limb. c To destroy; as to take off life. d To remove; to invalidate; as to take off the force of an argument. e To withdraw; to call or draw away --Locke. f To swallow; as to take off a glass of wine. g To purchase; to take in trade ``The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off.'' --Locke. h To copy; to reproduce. ``Take off all their models in wood.'' --Addison. i To imitate; to mimic; to personate. k To find place for to dispose of as more scholars than preferments can take off [R.] --Bacon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Taking \Tak"ing\, a. 1. Apt to take alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. --Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl -- {Tak"ing*ly}, adv -- {Tak"ing*ness}, n. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Taking \Tak"ing\, n. 1. The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension. 2. Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. [Colloq.] What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! --Shak. 3. Malign influence; infection. [Obs.] --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: taking adj : very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality" [syn: {fetching}, {winning}] n : the act of someone who picks up or takes something "the pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking" [syn: {picking}]
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