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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Jet, the mineral.

II. Get ·noun Artifice; contrivance.

III. Get ·noun Fashion; manner; custom.

IV. Get ·noun Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

V. Get ·vt To prevail on; to Induce; to Persuade.

VI. Get ·vt To Betake; to Remove;

— in a reflexive use.

VII. Get ·vt Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to Have.

VIII. Get ·vt To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition;

— with a following participle.

IX. Get ·vt To Beget; to Procreate; to Generate.

X. Get ·vi To make acquisition; to Gain; to Profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

XI. Get ·vt To obtain mental possession of; to Learn; to commit to memory; to Memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

XII. Get ·vi To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to Become;

— with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

XIII. Get ·vt To Procure; to Obtain; to gain possession of; to Acquire; to Earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, ·etc.

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