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Definition of take

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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..

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Knightage :: Knightage (n.) To body of knights, taken collectively..

Inadvertency :: Inadvertency (n.) An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence..

Sweepstakes :: Sweepstakes (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.

Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes..

Mistake :: Mistake (v. i.) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error..

Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..

Recaptor :: Recaptor (n.) One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

Choose :: Choose (v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils..

Default :: Default (n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc..

Misunderstand :: Misunderstand (v. t.) To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Jest :: "Jest (v. i.) To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude..

Print :: Print (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate..

Galley :: Galley (n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

Schismatic :: Schismatic (n.) One who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion.

Dare :: Dare (v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.

Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To take away; to subtract.

Set :: Set (v. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.

Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

Sweepstakes :: Sweepstake (n.) A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.

Parcel :: Parcel (n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.