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Definition of take

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Take (v. t.) 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..

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Part :: Part (v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake.

Order :: Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry..

Unthread :: Unthread (v. t.) To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle..

Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..

Bocca :: Bocca (n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.

Ignore :: Ignore (v. t.) Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees..

Devilfish :: Devilfish (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

Proceed :: Proceed (v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

Underfong :: Underfong (v. t.) To undertake; to take in hand; to receive.

Advise :: Advise (v. t.) To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends..

Gage :: Gage (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance..

Reprise :: Reprise (v. t.) To take again; to retake.

Misapprehend :: Misapprehend (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..

Betook :: Betook () imp. of Betake.

Take :: Take (v. i.) To please; to gain reception; to succeed.

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend..

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

Eviscerate :: Eviscerate (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.