·p.p. Taken.
II. Take ·noun The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
III. Take ·vi To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
IV. Take ·noun That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
V. Take ·vi To Please; to gain reception; to Succeed.
VI. Take ·add. ·vt To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene.
VII. Take ·vt To Lead; to Conduct; as, to take a child to church.
VIII. Take ·vt To Draw; to Deduce; to Derive.
IX. Take ·vt Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to Clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
X. Take ·vt To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to Swallow; as, to take food or wine.
XI. Take ·vt To accept, as something offered; to Receive; not to refuse or reject; to Admit.
XII. Take ·vt To make selection of; to Choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
XIII. Take ·vt To Carry; to Convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
XIV. Take ·add. ·vt To give or deliver (a blow to); to Strike; hit; as, he took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head.
XV. Take ·vi To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
XVI. Take ·vt To form a likeness of; to Copy; to Delineate; to Picture; as, to take picture of a person.
XVII. Take ·vt To Remove; to Withdraw; to Deduct;
— with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
XVIII. Take ·vt In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to Bear; to Endure; to Acknowledge; to Accept.
XIX. Take ·vt To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to Tolerate; to Endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
XX. Take ·vt To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to Captivate; to Engage; to Interest; to Charm.
XXI. Take ·vt To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to Bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
— used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
XXII. Take ·vt To Employ; to Use; to Occupy; hence, to demand; to Require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
XXIII. Take ·vi To move or direct the course; to Resort; to betake one's self; to Proceed; to Go;
— usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
XXIV. Take ·vt In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to Grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to Procure; to seize and carry away; to Convey.
XXV. Take ·vt 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.
XXVI. Take ·vt 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.
XXVII. Take ·vt To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to Allow; to Accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to Understand; to Interpret; to regard or look upon; to Consider; to Suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.