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Take :: Take (v. t.) 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..

Docimology :: Docimology (n.) A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc..

Byword :: Byword (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

Say :: Say (v. t.) To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to..

Sneer :: Sneer (v. t.) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person..

Preface :: Preface (n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks..

Pooh-pooh :: Pooh-pooh (v. t.) To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!.

Austromancy :: Austromancy (n.) Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds..

Annueler :: Annueler (n.) A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses..

Sayette :: Sayette (n.) A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy..

Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay..

Dictate :: Dictate (v. t.) To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops..

Apothegmatize :: Apothegmatize (v. i.) To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings..

Impugn :: Impugn (v. t.) To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.

Hypallage :: Hypallage (n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, dare classibus austros, to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds..

Unsay :: Unsay (v. t.) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said..

Forsay :: Forsay (v. t.) To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.

Recant :: Recant (v. i.) To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant..

Heterophemy :: Heterophemy (n.) The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness..

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