Definition of taking

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Taking (a.) Infectious; contageous.

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Prender :: Prender (n.) The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered.
Distress :: Distress (n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc..
Subscriber :: Subscriber (n.) One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
Loamy :: Loamy (a.) Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
Arrange :: Arrange (v. t.) To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking..
Sumption :: Sumption (n.) A taking.
Fork :: Fork (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything..
Syrupy :: Syrupy (a.) Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities..
Bearish :: Bearish (a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
Seeing :: Seeing (conj. (but originally a present participle)) In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young..
Avowant :: Avowant (n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking..
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained..
Cibation :: Cibation (n.) The act of taking food.
Deduction :: Deduction (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend..
Stercoranism :: Stercoraceous (a.) Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung..
Sciolistic :: Sciolistic (a.) Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist..
Seizure :: Seizure (n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc..
Performance :: Performance (n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty..
Bathometer :: Bathometer (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line..
Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking..
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