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   Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko
         n 1: Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the
               American Revolution (1746-1817) [syn: {Kosciusko},
               {Thaddeus Kosciusko}, {Kosciuszko}, {Tadeusz Andrzej
               Bonawentura Kosciuszko}]

English Dictionary: tediousness by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tautoga onitis
n
  1. large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
    Synonym(s): tautog, blackfish, Tautoga onitis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ted Shawn
n
  1. United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972)
    Synonym(s): Shawn, Ted Shawn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tediousness
n
  1. dullness owing to length or slowness [syn: tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tetchiness
n
  1. feeling easily irritated [syn: testiness, touchiness, tetchiness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tettigoniid
n
  1. grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well- developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
    Synonym(s): long-horned grasshopper, tettigoniid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tettigoniidae
n
  1. long-horned grasshoppers; katydids [syn: Tettigoniidae, family Tettigoniidae]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thiothixene
n
  1. a tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia
    Synonym(s): thiothixene, Navane
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tidy sum
n
  1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
    Synonym(s): batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Titus Maccius Plautus
n
  1. comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC) [syn: Plautus, Titus Maccius Plautus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
to the contrary
adv
  1. contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends"
    Synonym(s): contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toothsome
adj
  1. acceptable to the taste or mind; "palatable food"; "a palatable solution to the problem"
    Synonym(s): palatable, toothsome
    Antonym(s): unpalatable
  2. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
    Synonym(s): delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy
  3. having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress"
    Synonym(s): juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toothsomeness
n
  1. extreme appetizingness [syn: delectability, deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tutsan
n
  1. deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain
    Synonym(s): common St John's wort, tutsan, Hypericum androsaemum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
twitching
n
  1. a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
    Synonym(s): twitch, twitching, vellication
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
two dozen
n
  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one
    Synonym(s): twenty-four, 24, XXIV, two dozen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Peba \Pe"ba\, n. [Cf. Pg. peba.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An armadillo ({Tatusia novemcincta}) which is found from
      Texas to Paraguay; -- called also {tatouhou}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tautog \Tau*tog"\, n. [The pl. of taut, the American Indian
      name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written
      by him tauta[a3]og.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An edible labroid fish ({Haitula onitis}, or {Tautoga
      onitis}) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When
      adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred,
      with greenish gray. Called also {blackfish}, {oyster fish},
      {salt-water chub}, and {moll}. [Written also {tautaug}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tautoousian \Tau`to*ou"si*an\, Tautoousious \Tau`to*ou"si*ous\,
      a. [Gr. [?]; [?], for [?] [?] the same + [?] being, essence.]
      Having the same essence; being identically of the same
      nature. [R.] --Cudworth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tautozonal \Tau`to*zon"al\, a. [Gr. [?]; [?], for [?] [?] the
      same + E. zonal.] (Crystallog.)
      Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tedious \Te"di*ous\, a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See
      {Tedium}.]
      Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity,
      slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- {Te"di*ous*ly}, adv. --
      {Te"di*ous*ness}, n.
  
               I see a man's life is a tedious one.      --Shak.
  
               I would not be tedious to the court.      --Bunyan.
  
      Syn: Wearisome; fatiguing. See {Irksome}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tetchiness \Tetch"i*ness\, n.
      See {Techiness}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tettigonian \Tet`ti*go"ni*an\, n. [Gr. [?], dim. of [?] a kind
      of grasshopper.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to
      {Tettigonia} and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thatching \Thatch"ing\, n.
      1. The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to
            keep out rain, snow, etc.
  
      2. The materials used for this purpose; thatch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thatch \Thatch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thatched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Thatching}.] [From {Thatch}, n.: cf. OE. thecchen, AS.
      [?]eccean to cover.]
      To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some
      similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack
      of grain.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tidesman \Tides"man\, n.; pl. {Tidesmen}.
      A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to
      secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tidesman \Tides"man\, n.; pl. {Tidesmen}.
      A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to
      secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tithe \Tithe\, n. [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth,
      AS. te[a2][?]a the tenth; akin to ti[82]n, t[?]n, t[c7]n,
      ten, G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a tithe, Icel. t[c6]und the
      tenth; tithe, Goth. ta[a1]hunda tenth. See {Ten}, and cf.
      {Tenth}, {Teind}.]
      1. A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the
            tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land
            and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in
            England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses.
            Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by
            law into rent charges.
  
                     The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil.
                                                                              --Neh. xiii.
                                                                              5.
  
      Note: Tithes are called personal when accuring from labor,
               art, trade, and navigation; predial, when issuing from
               the earth, as hay, wood, and fruit; and mixed, when
               accuring from beaste fed from the ground. --Blackstone.
  
      2. Hence, a small part or proportion. --Bacon.
  
      {Great tithes}, tithes of corn, hay, and wood.
  
      {Mixed tithes}, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc.
  
      {Small tithes}, personal and mixed tithes.
  
      {Tithe commissioner}, one of a board of officers appointed by
            the government for arranging propositions for commuting,
            or compounding for, tithes. [Eng.] --Simmonds.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Game \Game\, a.
      1. Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock;
            ready to fight to the last; plucky.
  
                     I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought
                     even to the death.                              --W. Irving.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game,
            or to the act or practice of hunting.
  
      {Game bag}, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game
            captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken.
  
      {Game bird}, any bird commonly shot for food, esp. grouse,
            partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore
            or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew,
            and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily
            restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and
            guns.
  
      {Game egg}, an egg producing a gamecock.
  
      {Game laws}, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking
            game for food or for sport.
  
      {Game preserver}, a land owner who regulates the killing of
            game on his estate with a view to its increase. [Eng.]
  
      {To be game}.
            (a) To show a brave, unyielding spirit.
            (b) To be victor in a game. [Colloq.]
  
      {To die game}, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the
            last; to die fighting.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dig \Dig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dug}or {Digged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Digging}. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same
      word as diken, dichen (see {Dike}, {Ditch}); cf. Dan. dige to
      dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [?][?][?].]
      1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to
            open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or
            other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if
            with a spade.
  
                     Be first to dig the ground.               --Dryden.
  
      2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
  
      3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing
            earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
  
      4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
  
                     You should have seen children . . . dig and push
                     their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them:
                     Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear
                     pearls.                                             --Robynson
                                                                              (More's
                                                                              Utopia).
  
      {To dig down}, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as,
            to dig down a wall.
  
      {To dig from}, {out of}, {out}, [or] {up}, to get out or
            obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine;
            to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is
            often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron
            ore, digging potatoes.
  
      {To dig in}, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Edge \Edge\, v. i.
      1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this
            way.
  
      2. To sail close to the wind.
  
                     I must edge up on a point of wind.      --Dryden.
  
      {To edge away} [or] {off} (Naut.), to increase the distance
            gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.
  
      {To edge down} (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when
            a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique
            direction from the windward.
  
      {To edge in}, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees.
  
      {To edge in with}, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to
            advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Edge \Edge\, v. i.
      1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this
            way.
  
      2. To sail close to the wind.
  
                     I must edge up on a point of wind.      --Dryden.
  
      {To edge away} [or] {off} (Naut.), to increase the distance
            gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.
  
      {To edge down} (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when
            a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique
            direction from the windward.
  
      {To edge in}, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees.
  
      {To edge in with}, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to
            advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Name \Name\, n. [AS. nama; akin to D. naam, OS. & OHG. namo, G.
      name, Icel. nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn, Goth.
      nam[omac], L. nomen (perh. influenced by noscere, gnoscere,
      to learn to know), Gr. 'o`mona, Scr. n[be]man. [root]267. Cf.
      {Anonymous}, {Ignominy}, {Misnomer}, {Nominal}, {Noun}.]
      1. The title by which any person or thing is known or
            designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of
            an individual or a class.
  
                     Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that
                     was the name thereof.                        --Gen. ii. 19.
  
                     What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any
                     other name would smell as sweet.         --Shak.
  
      2. A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person
            or thing, on account of a character or acts.
  
                     His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
                     mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
                     Peace.                                                --Is. ix. 6.
  
      3. Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation;
            fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable
            estimation; distinction.
  
                     What men of name resort to him?         --Shak.
  
                     Far above . . . every name that is named, not only
                     in this world, but also in that which is to come.
                                                                              --Eph. i. 21.
  
                     I will get me a name and honor in the kingdom. --1
                                                                              Macc. iii. 14.
  
                     He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin.
                                                                              --Deut. xxii.
                                                                              19.
  
                     The king's army . . . had left no good name behind.
                                                                              --Clarendon.
  
      4. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
  
                     The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his
                     name, came every day to pay their feigned
                     civilities.                                       --Motley.
  
      5. A person, an individual. [Poetic]
  
                     They list with women each degenerate name. --Dryden.
  
      {Christian name}.
            (a) The name a person receives at baptism, as
                  distinguished from {surname}; baptismal name.
            (b) A given name, whether received at baptism or not.
  
      {Given name}. See under {Given}.
  
      {In name}, in profession, or by title only; not in reality;
            as, a friend in name.
  
      {In the name of}.
            (a) In behalf of; by the authority of. [bd] I charge you
                  in the duke's name to obey me.[b8]         --Shak.
            (b) In the represented or assumed character of. [bd]I'll
                  to him again in name of Brook.[b8]         --Shak.
  
      {Name plate}, a plate as of metal, glass, etc., having a name
            upon it, as a sign; a doorplate.
  
      {Pen name}, a name assumed by an author; a pseudonym or nom
            de plume. --Bayard Taylor.
  
      {Proper name} (Gram.), a name applied to a particular person,
            place, or thing.
  
      {To call names}, to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by
            reproachful appellations.
  
      {To take a name in vain}, to use a name lightly or profanely;
            to use a name in making flippant or dishonest oaths. --Ex.
            xx. 7.
  
      Syn: Appellation; title; designation; cognomen; denomination;
               epithet.
  
      Usage: {Name}, {Appellation}, {Title}, {Denomination}. Name
                  is generic, denoting that combination of sounds or
                  letters by which a person or thing is known and
                  distinguished. Appellation, although sometimes put for
                  name simply, denotes, more properly, a descriptive
                  term, used by way of marking some individual
                  peculiarity or characteristic; as, Charles the Bold,
                  Philip the Stammerer. A title is a term employed to
                  point out one's rank, office, etc.; as, the Duke of
                  Bedford, Paul the Apostle, etc. Denomination is to
                  particular bodies what appellation is to individuals;
                  thus, the church of Christ is divided into different
                  denominations, as Congregationalists, Episcopalians,
                  Presbyterians, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
      t[c7]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
      1. 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. Hence, specifically:
            (a) 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.
  
                           This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                                              27.
  
                           Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                           Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                           They that come abroad after these showers are
                           commonly taken with sickness.      --Bacon.
  
                           There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                           And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
            (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
                  captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                           Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                                              --Prov. vi.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                           that he had no patience.               --Wake.
  
                           I know not why, but there was a something in
                           those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
                           shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
                           which took me more than all the outshining
                           loveliness of her companions.      --Moore.
            (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
                  have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                           Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                           son. And Jonathan was taken.         --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                                              42.
  
                           The violence of storming is the course which God
                           is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                           sinners.                                       --Hammond.
            (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
                  require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                           This man always takes time . . . before he
                           passes his judgments.                  --I. Watts.
            (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
                  picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                           Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                           The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                           forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                           from this consideration of the most lasting
                           happiness and misery.                  --Tillotson.
            (g) 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.
            (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
            (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
                  over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                           He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
            (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
                  to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
      2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
            endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
            (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
                  refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                           Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                           murderer.                                    --Num. xxxv.
                                                                              31.
  
                           Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                           threescore.                                 --1 Tim. v.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
                  partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
            (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
                  clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
            (d) 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.
            (e) 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.
  
                           You take me right.                        --Bacon.
  
                           Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                           else but the science love of God and our
                           neighbor.                                    --Wake.
  
                           [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                           was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                           You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                                              --Tate.
            (f) 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.
  
                           I take thee at thy word.               --Rowe.
  
                           Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                           Not take the mold.                        --Dryden.
  
      {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
            etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.
  
      {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
      {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
      {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.
  
      {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
            of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
            of bishops. [bd]By your own law, I take your life
            away.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
            or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
      {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
            solicitous. [bd]Doth God take care for oxen?[b8] --1 Cor.
            ix. 9.
  
      {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
            for; to superintend or oversee.
  
      {To take down}.
            (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
                  place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
                  to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
                  pride, or the proud. [bd]I never attempted to be
                  impudent yet, that I was not taken down.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
            (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
            (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
                  house or a scaffold.
            (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
                  words at the time he utters them.
  
      {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
            {Fire}.
  
      {To take ground to the right} [or] {to the left} (Mil.), to
            extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
            to the right or left.
  
      {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
            encouraged.
  
      {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. [bd]Take heed what
            doom against yourself you give.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
            ways.
  
      {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.
  
      {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.
  
      {To take in}.
            (a) To inclose; to fence.
            (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
            (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
                  or furl; as, to take in sail.
            (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
                  [Colloq.]
            (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
                  water.
            (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                           For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                           in.                                             --Chapman.
            (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. [bd]Some
                  bright genius can take in a long train of
                  propositions.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
                  newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
      {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.
  
      {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. [bd]Thou
            shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.[b8]
            --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      {To take issue}. See under {Issue}.
  
      {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.
  
      {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
            regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
      {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
            attention.
  
      {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.
  
      {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
            manner.
  
      {To take off}.
            (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
                  from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
                  take off one's hat.
            (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
            (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
            (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
                  an argument.
            (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
            (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
            (g) To purchase; to take in trade. [bd]The Spaniards
                  having no commodities that we will take off.[b8]
                  --Locke.
            (h) To copy; to reproduce. [bd]Take off all their models
                  in wood.[b8] --Addison.
            (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
            (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
                  than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
      t[c7]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
      1. 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. Hence, specifically:
            (a) 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.
  
                           This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                                              27.
  
                           Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                           Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                           They that come abroad after these showers are
                           commonly taken with sickness.      --Bacon.
  
                           There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                           And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
            (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
                  captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                           Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                                              --Prov. vi.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                           that he had no patience.               --Wake.
  
                           I know not why, but there was a something in
                           those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
                           shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
                           which took me more than all the outshining
                           loveliness of her companions.      --Moore.
            (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
                  have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                           Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                           son. And Jonathan was taken.         --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                                              42.
  
                           The violence of storming is the course which God
                           is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                           sinners.                                       --Hammond.
            (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
                  require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                           This man always takes time . . . before he
                           passes his judgments.                  --I. Watts.
            (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
                  picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                           Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                           The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                           forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                           from this consideration of the most lasting
                           happiness and misery.                  --Tillotson.
            (g) 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.
            (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
            (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
                  over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                           He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
            (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
                  to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
      2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
            endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
            (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
                  refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                           Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                           murderer.                                    --Num. xxxv.
                                                                              31.
  
                           Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                           threescore.                                 --1 Tim. v.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
                  partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
            (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
                  clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
            (d) 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.
            (e) 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.
  
                           You take me right.                        --Bacon.
  
                           Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                           else but the science love of God and our
                           neighbor.                                    --Wake.
  
                           [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                           was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                           You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                                              --Tate.
            (f) 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.
  
                           I take thee at thy word.               --Rowe.
  
                           Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                           Not take the mold.                        --Dryden.
  
      {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
            etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.
  
      {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
      {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
      {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.
  
      {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
            of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
            of bishops. [bd]By your own law, I take your life
            away.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
            or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
      {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
            solicitous. [bd]Doth God take care for oxen?[b8] --1 Cor.
            ix. 9.
  
      {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
            for; to superintend or oversee.
  
      {To take down}.
            (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
                  place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
                  to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
                  pride, or the proud. [bd]I never attempted to be
                  impudent yet, that I was not taken down.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
            (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
            (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
                  house or a scaffold.
            (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
                  words at the time he utters them.
  
      {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
            {Fire}.
  
      {To take ground to the right} [or] {to the left} (Mil.), to
            extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
            to the right or left.
  
      {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
            encouraged.
  
      {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. [bd]Take heed what
            doom against yourself you give.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
            ways.
  
      {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.
  
      {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.
  
      {To take in}.
            (a) To inclose; to fence.
            (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
            (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
                  or furl; as, to take in sail.
            (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
                  [Colloq.]
            (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
                  water.
            (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                           For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                           in.                                             --Chapman.
            (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. [bd]Some
                  bright genius can take in a long train of
                  propositions.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
                  newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
      {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.
  
      {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. [bd]Thou
            shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.[b8]
            --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      {To take issue}. See under {Issue}.
  
      {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.
  
      {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
            regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
      {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
            attention.
  
      {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.
  
      {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
            manner.
  
      {To take off}.
            (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
                  from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
                  take off one's hat.
            (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
            (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
            (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
                  an argument.
            (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
            (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
            (g) To purchase; to take in trade. [bd]The Spaniards
                  having no commodities that we will take off.[b8]
                  --Locke.
            (h) To copy; to reproduce. [bd]Take off all their models
                  in wood.[b8] --Addison.
            (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
            (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
                  than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

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   Amiss \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.]
      Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
  
               What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --Shak.
  
               Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. --James
                                                                              iv. 3.
  
      {To take (an act, thing) amiss}, to impute a wrong motive to
            (an act or thing); to take offense at; to take unkindly;
            as, you must not take these questions amiss.

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   Observation \Ob`ser*va"tion\, n. [L. observatio: cf.F.
      observation.]
      1. The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the
            act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
  
                     My observation, which very seldom lies. --Shak.
  
      2. The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view;
            reflection; conclusion; judgment.
  
                     In matters of human prudence, we shall find the
                     greatest advantage in making wise observations on
                     our conduct.                                       --I. Watts.
  
      3. Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what
            one has observed; a remark. [bd]That's a foolish
            observation.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     To observations which ourselves we make We grow more
                     partial for the observer's sake.         --Pope.
  
      4. Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice;
            observance. [Obs.]
  
                     We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the
                     observation of it in such circumstances. --Jer.
                                                                              Taylor.
  
      5. (Science)
            (a) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or
                  occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the
                  structure of an animal.
            (b) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable
                  instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an
                  occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a
                  star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's
                  altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star,
                  with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer,
                  etc.
            (c) The information so acquired.
  
      Note: When a phenomenon is scrutinized as it occurs in
               nature, the act is termed an observation. When the
               conditions under which the phenomenon occurs are
               artificial, or arranged beforehand by the observer, the
               process is called an experiment. Experiment includes
               observation.
  
      {To take an observation} (Naut.), to ascertain the altitude
            of a heavenly body, with a view to fixing a vessel's
            position at sea.
  
      Syn: Observance; notice; attention; remark; comment; note.
               See {Observance}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
      t[c7]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
      1. 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. Hence, specifically:
            (a) 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.
  
                           This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                                              27.
  
                           Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                           Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                           They that come abroad after these showers are
                           commonly taken with sickness.      --Bacon.
  
                           There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                           And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
            (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
                  captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                           Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                                              --Prov. vi.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                           that he had no patience.               --Wake.
  
                           I know not why, but there was a something in
                           those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
                           shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
                           which took me more than all the outshining
                           loveliness of her companions.      --Moore.
            (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
                  have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                           Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                           son. And Jonathan was taken.         --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                                              42.
  
                           The violence of storming is the course which God
                           is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                           sinners.                                       --Hammond.
            (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
                  require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                           This man always takes time . . . before he
                           passes his judgments.                  --I. Watts.
            (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
                  picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                           Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                           The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                           forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                           from this consideration of the most lasting
                           happiness and misery.                  --Tillotson.
            (g) 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.
            (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
            (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
                  over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                           He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
            (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
                  to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
      2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
            endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
            (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
                  refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                           Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                           murderer.                                    --Num. xxxv.
                                                                              31.
  
                           Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                           threescore.                                 --1 Tim. v.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
                  partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
            (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
                  clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
            (d) 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.
            (e) 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.
  
                           You take me right.                        --Bacon.
  
                           Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                           else but the science love of God and our
                           neighbor.                                    --Wake.
  
                           [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                           was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                           You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                                              --Tate.
            (f) 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.
  
                           I take thee at thy word.               --Rowe.
  
                           Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                           Not take the mold.                        --Dryden.
  
      {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
            etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.
  
      {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
      {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
      {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.
  
      {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
            of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
            of bishops. [bd]By your own law, I take your life
            away.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
            or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
      {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
            solicitous. [bd]Doth God take care for oxen?[b8] --1 Cor.
            ix. 9.
  
      {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
            for; to superintend or oversee.
  
      {To take down}.
            (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
                  place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
                  to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
                  pride, or the proud. [bd]I never attempted to be
                  impudent yet, that I was not taken down.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
            (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
            (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
                  house or a scaffold.
            (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
                  words at the time he utters them.
  
      {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
            {Fire}.
  
      {To take ground to the right} [or] {to the left} (Mil.), to
            extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
            to the right or left.
  
      {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
            encouraged.
  
      {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. [bd]Take heed what
            doom against yourself you give.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
            ways.
  
      {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.
  
      {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.
  
      {To take in}.
            (a) To inclose; to fence.
            (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
            (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
                  or furl; as, to take in sail.
            (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
                  [Colloq.]
            (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
                  water.
            (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                           For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                           in.                                             --Chapman.
            (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. [bd]Some
                  bright genius can take in a long train of
                  propositions.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
                  newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
      {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.
  
      {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. [bd]Thou
            shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.[b8]
            --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      {To take issue}. See under {Issue}.
  
      {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.
  
      {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
            regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
      {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
            attention.
  
      {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.
  
      {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
            manner.
  
      {To take off}.
            (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
                  from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
                  take off one's hat.
            (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
            (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
            (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
                  an argument.
            (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
            (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
            (g) To purchase; to take in trade. [bd]The Spaniards
                  having no commodities that we will take off.[b8]
                  --Locke.
            (h) To copy; to reproduce. [bd]Take off all their models
                  in wood.[b8] --Addison.
            (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
            (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
                  than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
      t[c7]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
      1. 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. Hence, specifically:
            (a) 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.
  
                           This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                                              27.
  
                           Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                           Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                           They that come abroad after these showers are
                           commonly taken with sickness.      --Bacon.
  
                           There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                           And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
            (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
                  captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                           Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                                              --Prov. vi.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                           that he had no patience.               --Wake.
  
                           I know not why, but there was a something in
                           those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
                           shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
                           which took me more than all the outshining
                           loveliness of her companions.      --Moore.
            (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
                  have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                           Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                           son. And Jonathan was taken.         --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                                              42.
  
                           The violence of storming is the course which God
                           is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                           sinners.                                       --Hammond.
            (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
                  require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                           This man always takes time . . . before he
                           passes his judgments.                  --I. Watts.
            (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
                  picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                           Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                           The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                           forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                           from this consideration of the most lasting
                           happiness and misery.                  --Tillotson.
            (g) 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.
            (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
            (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
                  over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                           He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
            (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
                  to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
      2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
            endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
            (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
                  refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                           Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                           murderer.                                    --Num. xxxv.
                                                                              31.
  
                           Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                           threescore.                                 --1 Tim. v.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
                  partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
            (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
                  clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
            (d) 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.
            (e) 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.
  
                           You take me right.                        --Bacon.
  
                           Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                           else but the science love of God and our
                           neighbor.                                    --Wake.
  
                           [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                           was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                           You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                                              --Tate.
            (f) 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.
  
                           I take thee at thy word.               --Rowe.
  
                           Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                           Not take the mold.                        --Dryden.
  
      {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
            etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.
  
      {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
      {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
      {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.
  
      {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
            of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
            of bishops. [bd]By your own law, I take your life
            away.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
            or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
      {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
            solicitous. [bd]Doth God take care for oxen?[b8] --1 Cor.
            ix. 9.
  
      {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
            for; to superintend or oversee.
  
      {To take down}.
            (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
                  place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
                  to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
                  pride, or the proud. [bd]I never attempted to be
                  impudent yet, that I was not taken down.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
            (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
            (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
                  house or a scaffold.
            (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
                  words at the time he utters them.
  
      {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
            {Fire}.
  
      {To take ground to the right} [or] {to the left} (Mil.), to
            extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
            to the right or left.
  
      {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
            encouraged.
  
      {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. [bd]Take heed what
            doom against yourself you give.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
            ways.
  
      {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.
  
      {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.
  
      {To take in}.
            (a) To inclose; to fence.
            (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
            (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
                  or furl; as, to take in sail.
            (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
                  [Colloq.]
            (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
                  water.
            (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                           For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                           in.                                             --Chapman.
            (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. [bd]Some
                  bright genius can take in a long train of
                  propositions.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
                  newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
      {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.
  
      {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. [bd]Thou
            shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.[b8]
            --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      {To take issue}. See under {Issue}.
  
      {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.
  
      {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
            regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
      {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
            attention.
  
      {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.
  
      {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
            manner.
  
      {To take off}.
            (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
                  from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
                  take off one's hat.
            (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
            (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
            (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
                  an argument.
            (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
            (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
            (g) To purchase; to take in trade. [bd]The Spaniards
                  having no commodities that we will take off.[b8]
                  --Locke.
            (h) To copy; to reproduce. [bd]Take off all their models
                  in wood.[b8] --Addison.
            (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
            (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
                  than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hand \Hand\, n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand,
      OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[94]nd, Goth. handus, and perh.
      to Goth. hinpan to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.]
      1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in
            man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other
            animals; manus; paw. See {Manus}.
  
      2. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the
            office of, a human hand; as:
            (a) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or
                  any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
            (b) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute
                  hand of a clock.
  
      3. A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a
            palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
  
      4. Side; part; direction, either right or left.
  
                     On this hand and that hand, were hangings. --Ex.
                                                                              xxxviii. 15.
  
                     The Protestants were then on the winning hand.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      5. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill;
            dexterity.
  
                     He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      6. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence,
            manner of performance.
  
                     To change the hand in carrying on the war.
                                                                              --Clarendon.
  
                     Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my
                     hand.                                                --Judges vi.
                                                                              36.
  
      7. An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or
            competent for special service or duty; a performer more or
            less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand
            at speaking.
  
                     A dictionary containing a natural history requires
                     too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be
                     hoped for.                                          --Locke.
  
                     I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.
                                                                              --Hazlitt.
  
      8. Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or
            running hand. Hence, a signature.
  
                     I say she never did invent this letter; This is a
                     man's invention and his hand.            --Shak.
  
                     Some writs require a judge's hand.      --Burril.
  
      9. Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction;
            management; -- usually in the plural. [bd]Receiving in
            hand one year's tribute.[b8] --Knolles.
  
                     Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the
                     goverment of Britain.                        --Milton.
  
      10. Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to
            buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when
            new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the
            producer's hand, or when not new.
  
      11. Rate; price. [Obs.] [bd]Business is bought at a dear
            hand, where there is small dispatch.[b8] --Bacon.
  
      12. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once; as:
            (a) (Card Playing) The quota of cards received from the
                  dealer.
            (b) (Tobacco Manuf.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied
                  together.
  
      13. (Firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock,
            which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
  
      Note: Hand is used figuratively for a large variety of acts
               or things, in the doing, or making, or use of which the
               hand is in some way employed or concerned; also, as a
               symbol to denote various qualities or conditions, as:
            (a) Activity; operation; work; -- in distinction from the
                  head, which implies thought, and the heart, which
                  implies affection. [bd]His hand will be against every
                  man.[b8] --Gen. xvi. 12.
            (b) Power; might; supremacy; -- often in the Scriptures.
                  [bd]With a mighty hand . . . will I rule over
                  you.[b8] --Ezek. xx. 33.
            (c) Fraternal feeling; as, to give, or take, the hand; to
                  give the right hand.
            (d) Contract; -- commonly of marriage; as, to ask the
                  hand; to pledge the hand.
  
      Note: Hand is often used adjectively or in compounds (with or
               without the hyphen), signifying performed by the hand;
               as, hand blow or hand-blow, hand gripe or hand-gripe:
               used by, or designed for, the hand; as, hand ball or
               handball, hand bow, hand fetter, hand grenade or
               hand-grenade, handgun or hand gun, handloom or hand
               loom, handmill or hand organ or handorgan, handsaw or
               hand saw, hand-weapon: measured or regulated by the
               hand; as, handbreadth or hand's breadth, hand gallop or
               hand-gallop. Most of the words in the following
               paragraph are written either as two words or in
               combination.
  
      {Hand bag}, a satchel; a small bag for carrying books,
            papers, parcels, etc.
  
      {Hand basket}, a small or portable basket.
  
      {Hand bell}, a small bell rung by the hand; a table bell.
            --Bacon.
  
      {Hand bill}, a small pruning hook. See 4th {Bill}.
  
      {Hand car}. See under {Car}.
  
      {Hand director} (Mus.), an instrument to aid in forming a
            good position of the hands and arms when playing on the
            piano; a hand guide.
  
      {Hand drop}. See {Wrist drop}.
  
      {Hand gallop}. See under {Gallop}.
  
      {Hand gear} (Mach.), apparatus by means of which a machine,
            or parts of a machine, usually operated by other power,
            may be operated by hand.
  
      {Hand glass}.
            (a) A glass or small glazed frame, for the protection of
                  plants.
            (b) A small mirror with a handle.
  
      {Hand guide}. Same as {Hand director} (above).
  
      {Hand language}, the art of conversing by the hands, esp. as
            practiced by the deaf and dumb; dactylology.
  
      {Hand lathe}. See under {Lathe}.
  
      {Hand money}, money paid in hand to bind a contract; earnest
            money.
  
      {Hand organ} (Mus.), a barrel organ, operated by a crank
            turned by hand.
  
      {Hand plant}. (Bot.) Same as {Hand tree} (below). -- {Hand
            rail}, a rail, as in staircases, to hold by. --Gwilt.
  
      {Hand sail}, a sail managed by the hand. --Sir W. Temple.
  
      {Hand screen}, a small screen to be held in the hand.
  
      {Hand screw}, a small jack for raising heavy timbers or
            weights; (Carp.) a screw clamp.
  
      {Hand staff} (pl. {Hand staves}), a javelin. --Ezek. xxxix.
            9.
  
      {Hand stamp}, a small stamp for dating, addressing, or
            canceling papers, envelopes, etc.
  
      {Hand tree} (Bot.), a lofty tree found in Mexico
            ({Cheirostemon platanoides}), having red flowers whose
            stamens unite in the form of a hand.
  
      {Hand vise}, a small vise held in the hand in doing small
            work. --Moxon.
  
      {Hand work}, [or] {Handwork}, work done with the hands, as
            distinguished from work done by a machine; handiwork.
  
      {All hands}, everybody; all parties.
  
      {At all hands}, {On all hands}, on all sides; from every
            direction; generally.
  
      {At any hand}, {At no hand}, in any (or no) way or direction;
            on any account; on no account. [bd]And therefore at no
            hand consisting with the safety and interests of
            humility.[b8] --Jer. Taylor.
  
      {At first hand}, {At second hand}. See def. 10 (above).
  
      {At hand}.
            (a) Near in time or place; either present and within
                  reach, or not far distant. [bd]Your husband is at
                  hand; I hear his trumpet.[b8] --Shak.
            (b) Under the hand or bridle. [Obs.] [bd]Horses hot at
                  hand.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {At the hand of}, by the act of; as a gift from. [bd]Shall we
            receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive
            evil?[b8] --Job ii. 10.
  
      {Bridle hand}. See under {Bridle}.
  
      {By hand}, with the hands, in distinction from
            instrumentality of tools, engines, or animals; as, to weed
            a garden by hand; to lift, draw, or carry by hand.
  
      {Clean hands}, freedom from guilt, esp. from the guilt of
            dishonesty in money matters, or of bribe taking. [bd]He
            that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.[b8]
            --Job xvii. 9.
  
      {From hand to hand}, from one person to another.
  
      {Hand in hand}.
            (a) In union; conjointly; unitedly. --Swift.
            (b) Just; fair; equitable.
  
                           As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand
                           comparison.                                 --Shak.
                 
  
      {Hand over hand}, {Hand over fist}, by passing the hands
            alternately one before or above another; as, to climb hand
            over hand; also, rapidly; as, to come up with a chase hand
            over hand.
  
      {Hand over head}, negligently; rashly; without seeing what
            one does. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
      {Hand running}, consecutively; as, he won ten times hand
            running.
  
      {Hand off!} keep off! forbear! no interference or meddling!
           
  
      {Hand to hand}, in close union; in close fight; as, a hand to
            hand contest. --Dryden.
  
      {Heavy hand}, severity or oppression.
  
      {In hand}.
            (a) Paid down. [bd]A considerable reward in hand, and . .
                  . a far greater reward hereafter.[b8] --Tillotson.
            (b) In preparation; taking place. --Chaucer. [bd]Revels .
                  . . in hand.[b8] --Shak.
            (c) Under consideration, or in the course of transaction;
                  as, he has the business in hand.
  
      {In one's hand} [or] {hands}.
            (a) In one's possession or keeping.
            (b) At one's risk, or peril; as, I took my life in my
                  hand.
  
      {Laying on of hands}, a form used in consecrating to office,
            in the rite of confirmation, and in blessing persons.
  
      {Light hand}, gentleness; moderation.
  
      {Note of hand}, a promissory note.
  
      {Off hand}, {Out of hand}, forthwith; without delay,
            hesitation, or difficulty; promptly. [bd]She causeth them
            to be hanged up out of hand.[b8] --Spenser.
  
      {Off one's hands}, out of one's possession or care.
  
      {On hand}, in present possession; as, he has a supply of
            goods on hand.
  
      {On one's hands}, in one's possession care, or management.
  
      {Putting the hand under the thigh}, an ancient Jewish
            ceremony used in swearing.
  
      {Right hand}, the place of honor, power, and strength.
  
      {Slack hand}, idleness; carelessness; inefficiency; sloth.
  
      {Strict hand}, severe discipline; rigorous government.
  
      {To bear a hand}
            (Naut), to give help quickly; to hasten.
  
      {To bear in hand}, to keep in expectation with false
            pretenses. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {To be} {hand and glove, [or] in glove} {with}. See under
            {Glove}.
  
      {To be on the mending hand}, to be convalescent or improving.
           
  
      {To bring up by hand}, to feed (an infant) without suckling
            it.
  
      {To change hand}. See {Change}.
  
      {To change hands}, to change sides, or change owners.
            --Hudibras.
  
      {To clap the hands}, to express joy or applause, as by
            striking the palms of the hands together.
  
      {To come to hand}, to be received; to be taken into
            possession; as, the letter came to hand yesterday.
  
      {To get hand}, to gain influence. [Obs.]
  
                     Appetites have . . . got such a hand over them.
                                                                              --Baxter.
  
      {To got one's hand in}, to make a beginning in a certain
            work; to become accustomed to a particular business.
  
      {To have a hand in}, to be concerned in; to have a part or
            concern in doing; to have an agency or be employed in.
  
      {To have in hand}.
            (a) To have in one's power or control. --Chaucer.
            (b) To be engaged upon or occupied with.
  
      {To have one's hands full}, to have in hand al that one can
            do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed
            with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with
            difficulties.
  
      {To} {have, [or] get}, {the (higher) upper hand}, to have, or
            get, the better of another person or thing.
  
      {To his hand}, {To my hand}, etc., in readiness; already
            prepared. [bd]The work is made to his hands.[b8] --Locke.
  
      {To hold hand}, to compete successfully or on even
            conditions. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {To lay hands on}, to seize; to assault.
  
      {To lend a hand}, to give assistance.
  
      {To} {lift, [or] put forth}, {the hand against}, to attack;
            to oppose; to kill.
  
      {To live from hand to mouth}, to obtain food and other
            necessaries as want compels, without previous provision.
           
  
      {To make one's hand}, to gain advantage or profit.
  
      {To put the hand unto}, to steal. --Ex. xxii. 8.
  
      {To put the}
  
      {last, [or] finishing},
  
      {hand to}, to make the last corrections in; to complete; to
            perfect.
  
      {To set the hand to}, to engage in; to undertake.
  
                     That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that
                     thou settest thine hand to.               --Deut. xxiii.
                                                                              20.
  
      {To stand one in hand}, to concern or affect one.
  
      {To strike hands}, to make a contract, or to become surety
            for another's debt or good behavior.
  
      {To take in hand}.
            (a) To attempt or undertake.
            (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand.
  
      {To wash the hands of}, to disclaim or renounce interest in,
            or responsibility for, a person or action; as, to wash
            one's hands of a business. --Matt. xxvii. 24.
  
      {Under the hand of}, authenticated by the handwriting or
            signature of; as, the deed is executed under the hand and
            seal of the owner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
      t[c7]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
      1. 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. Hence, specifically:
            (a) 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.
  
                           This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                                              27.
  
                           Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                           Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                           They that come abroad after these showers are
                           commonly taken with sickness.      --Bacon.
  
                           There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                           And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
            (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
                  captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                           Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                                              --Prov. vi.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                           that he had no patience.               --Wake.
  
                           I know not why, but there was a something in
                           those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
                           shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
                           which took me more than all the outshining
                           loveliness of her companions.      --Moore.
            (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
                  have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                           Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                           son. And Jonathan was taken.         --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                                              42.
  
                           The violence of storming is the course which God
                           is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                           sinners.                                       --Hammond.
            (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
                  require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                           This man always takes time . . . before he
                           passes his judgments.                  --I. Watts.
            (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
                  picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                           Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                           The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                           forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                           from this consideration of the most lasting
                           happiness and misery.                  --Tillotson.
            (g) 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.
            (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
            (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
                  over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                           He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
            (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
                  to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
      2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
            endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
            (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
                  refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                           Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                           murderer.                                    --Num. xxxv.
                                                                              31.
  
                           Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                           threescore.                                 --1 Tim. v.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
                  partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
            (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
                  clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
            (d) 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.
            (e) 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.
  
                           You take me right.                        --Bacon.
  
                           Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                           else but the science love of God and our
                           neighbor.                                    --Wake.
  
                           [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                           was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                           You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                                              --Tate.
            (f) 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.
  
                           I take thee at thy word.               --Rowe.
  
                           Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                           Not take the mold.                        --Dryden.
  
      {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
            etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.
  
      {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
      {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
      {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.
  
      {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
            of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
            of bishops. [bd]By your own law, I take your life
            away.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
            or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
      {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
            solicitous. [bd]Doth God take care for oxen?[b8] --1 Cor.
            ix. 9.
  
      {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
            for; to superintend or oversee.
  
      {To take down}.
            (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
                  place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
                  to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
                  pride, or the proud. [bd]I never attempted to be
                  impudent yet, that I was not taken down.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
            (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
            (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
                  house or a scaffold.
            (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
                  words at the time he utters them.
  
      {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
            {Fire}.
  
      {To take ground to the right} [or] {to the left} (Mil.), to
            extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
            to the right or left.
  
      {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
            encouraged.
  
      {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. [bd]Take heed what
            doom against yourself you give.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
            ways.
  
      {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.
  
      {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.
  
      {To take in}.
            (a) To inclose; to fence.
            (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
            (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
                  or furl; as, to take in sail.
            (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
                  [Colloq.]
            (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
                  water.
            (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                           For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                           in.                                             --Chapman.
            (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. [bd]Some
                  bright genius can take in a long train of
                  propositions.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
                  newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
      {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.
  
      {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. [bd]Thou
            shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.[b8]
            --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      {To take issue}. See under {Issue}.
  
      {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.
  
      {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
            regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
      {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
            attention.
  
      {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.
  
      {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
            manner.
  
      {To take off}.
            (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
                  from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
                  take off one's hat.
            (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
            (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
            (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
                  an argument.
            (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
            (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
            (g) To purchase; to take in trade. [bd]The Spaniards
                  having no commodities that we will take off.[b8]
                  --Locke.
            (h) To copy; to reproduce. [bd]Take off all their models
                  in wood.[b8] --Addison.
            (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
            (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
                  than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. i.
      1. 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. --Shak.
  
                     When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
                     In impressions from mind to mind, the impression
                     taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any
                     manifest effect.                                 --Bacon.
  
      2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
  
                     Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And
                     hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      3. 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.
  
      4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his
            face does not take well.
  
      {To take after}.
            (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes
                  after a good pattern.
            (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.
  
      {To take in with}, to resort to. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
      {To take on}, to be violently affected; to express grief or
            pain in a violent manner.
  
      {To take to}.
            (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become
                  attached to; as, to take to evil practices. [bd]If he
                  does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great
                  friendship with him.[b8] --Walpole.
            (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. [bd]Men of
                  learning, who take to business, discharge it generally
                  with greater honesty than men of the world.[b8]
                  --Addison.
  
      {To take up}.
            (a) To stop. [Obs.] [bd]Sinners at last take up and settle
                  in a contempt of religion.[b8] --Tillotson.
            (b) To reform. [Obs.] --Locke.
  
      {To take up with}.
            (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without
                  opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain
                  fare. [bd]In affairs which may have an extensive
                  influence on our future happiness, we should not take
                  up with probabilities.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
  
      {To take with}, to please. --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Account \Ac*count"\, n. [OE. acount, account, accompt, OF.
      acont, fr. aconter. See {Account}, v. t., {Count}, n., 1.]
      1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a
            record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
  
                     A beggarly account of empty boxes.      --Shak.
  
      2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed
            statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and
            also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review;
            as, to keep one's account at the bank.
  
      3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc.,
            explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has
            been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often
            used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive,
            etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all
            accounts.
  
      4. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of
            transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a
            description; as, an account of a battle. [bd]A laudable
            account of the city of London.[b8] --Howell.
  
      5. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's
            conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
  
                     Give an account of thy stewardship.   --Luke xvi. 2.
  
      6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. [bd]To
            stand high in your account.[b8] --Shak.
  
      7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. [bd]Men of
            account.[b8] --Pope. [bd]To turn to account.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Account current}, a running or continued account between two
            or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such
            an account.
  
      {In account with}, in a relation requiring an account to be
            kept.
  
      {On account of}, for the sake of; by reason of; because of.
           
  
      {On one's own account}, for one's own interest or behalf.
  
      {To make account}, to have an opinion or expectation; to
            reckon. [Obs.]
  
                     This other part . . . makes account to find no
                     slender arguments for this assertion out of those
                     very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      {To make account of}, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as,
            he makes small account of beauty.
  
      {To take account of}, or {to take into account}, to take into
            consideration; to notice. [bd]Of their doings, God takes
            no account.[b8]                                          --Milton
            .
  
      {A writ of account} (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings
            demanding that the defendant shall render his just
            account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called
            also an {action of account}. --Cowell.
  
      Syn: Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description;
               explanation; rehearsal.
  
      Usage: {Account}, {Narrative}, {Narration}, {Recital}. These
                  words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a
                  series of events. {Account} turns attention not so
                  much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more
                  properly applies to the report of some single event,
                  or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an
                  {account} of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. A
                  {narrative} is a continuous story of connected
                  incidents, such as one friend might tell to another;
                  as, a {narrative} of the events of a siege, a
                  {narrative} of one's life, etc. {Narration} is usually
                  the same as {narrative}, but is sometimes used to
                  describe the {mode} of relating events; as, his powers
                  of {narration} are uncommonly great. {Recital} denotes
                  a series of events drawn out into minute particulars,
                  usually expressing something which peculiarly
                  interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the
                  {recital} of one's wrongs, disappointments,
                  sufferings, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Confidence \Con"fi*dence\, n. [L. confidentia firm trust in,
      self-confidence: cf. F. confidence.]
      1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in;
            trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now
            commonly by in.
  
                     Society is built upon trust, and trust upon
                     confidence of one another's integrity. --South.
  
                     A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
      2. That in which faith is put or reliance had.
  
                     The Lord shall be thy confidence.      --Prov. iii.
                                                                              26.
  
      3. The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on
            himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of
            self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of
            security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.
  
                     Your wisdom is consumed in confidence; Do not go
                     forth to-day.                                    --Shak.
  
                     But confidence then bore thee on secure Either to
                     meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      4. Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were
            confidences between them.
  
                     Sir, I desire some confidence with you. --Shak.
  
      {Confidence game}, any swindling operation in which advantage
            is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the
            swindler.
  
      {Confidence man}, a swindler.
  
      {To take into one's confidence}, to admit to a knowledge of
            one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.
  
      Syn: Trust; assurance; expectation; hope.
  
                        I am confident that very much be done. --Boyle.
  
      2. Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
  
                     Be confident to speak, Northumberland; We three are
                     but thyself.                                       --Shak.
  
      3. Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
  
                     As confident as is the falcon's flight Against a
                     bird, do I with Mowbray fight.            --Shak.
  
      4. Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault;
            dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
  
                     The fool rageth and is confident.      --Prov. xiv.
                                                                              16.
  
      5. Giving occasion for confidence. [R.]
  
                     The cause was more confident than the event was
                     prosperious.                                       --Jer. Taylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Measure \Meas"ure\, n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr.
      metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure,
      Gr. [?], E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to
      measure.]
      1. A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or
            extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or
            multiples of which anything is estimated and stated;
            hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
  
      2. An instrument by means of which size or quantity is
            measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.
  
                     False ells and measures be brought all clean adown.
                                                                              --R. of
                                                                              Gloucester.
  
      3. The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according
            to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated;
            estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.
  
                     The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and
                     broader than the sea.                        --Job xi. 9.
  
      4. The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a
            quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited
            quantity or amount.
  
                     It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in
                     three measures of meal.                     --Luke xiii.
                                                                              21.
  
      5. Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds;
            moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in
            measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.
  
                     Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
                     without measure.                                 --Is. v. 14.
  
      6. Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted
            share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due
            proportion.
  
                     Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of
                     my days.                                             --Ps. xxxix.
                                                                              4.
  
      7. The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying
            and selling; as, to give good or full measure.
  
      8. Undefined quantity; extent; degree.
  
                     There is a great measure of discretion to be used in
                     the performance of confession.            --Jer. Taylor.
  
      9. Regulated division of movement:
            (a) (Dancing) A regulated movement corresponding to the
                  time in which the accompanying music is performed;
                  but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the
                  minuet.
            (b) (Mus.) (1) The group or grouping of beats, caused by
                  the regular recurrence of accented beats. (2) The
                  space between two bars. See {Beat}, {Triple},
                  {Quadruple}, {Sextuple}, {Compound time}, under
                  {Compound}, a., and {Figure}.
            (c) (Poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the
                  quantities, or long and short syllables; meter;
                  rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.
  
      10. (Arith.) A number which is contained in a given number a
            number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases,
            the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of
            two or more numbers.
  
      11. A step or definite part of a progressive course or
            policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the
            accomplishment of an object; as, political measures;
            prudent measures; an inefficient measure.
  
                     His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken
                     in the conferring that trust, and lamented his
                     error.                                             --Clarendon.
  
      12. The act of measuring; measurement. --Shak.
  
      13. pl. (Geol.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead
            measures.
  
      {Lineal}, [or] {Long}, {measure}, measure of length; the
            measure of lines or distances.
  
      {Liquid measure}, the measure of liquids.
  
      {Square measure}, the measure of superficial area of surfaces
            in square units, as inches, feet, miles, etc.
  
      {To have hard measure}, to have harsh treatment meted out to
            one; to be harshly or oppressively dealt with.
  
      {To take measures}, to make preparations; to provide means.
           
  
      {To take one's measure}, to measure one, as for a garment;
            hence, to form an opinion of one's disposition, character,
            ability, etc.
  
      {To tread a measure}, to dance in the style so called. See 9
            (a) .
  
                           Say to her, we have measured many miles To
                           tread a measure with her on this grass. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
      t[c7]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
      1. 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. Hence, specifically:
            (a) 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.
  
                           This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                                              27.
  
                           Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                           Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                           They that come abroad after these showers are
                           commonly taken with sickness.      --Bacon.
  
                           There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                           And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
            (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
                  captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                           Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                                              --Prov. vi.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                           that he had no patience.               --Wake.
  
                           I know not why, but there was a something in
                           those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
                           shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
                           which took me more than all the outshining
                           loveliness of her companions.      --Moore.
            (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
                  have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                           Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                           son. And Jonathan was taken.         --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                                              42.
  
                           The violence of storming is the course which God
                           is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                           sinners.                                       --Hammond.
            (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
                  require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                           This man always takes time . . . before he
                           passes his judgments.                  --I. Watts.
            (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
                  picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                           Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                           The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                           forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                           from this consideration of the most lasting
                           happiness and misery.                  --Tillotson.
            (g) 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.
            (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
            (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
                  over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                           He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
            (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
                  to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
      2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
            endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
            (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
                  refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                           Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                           murderer.                                    --Num. xxxv.
                                                                              31.
  
                           Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                           threescore.                                 --1 Tim. v.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
                  partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
            (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
                  clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
            (d) 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.
            (e) 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.
  
                           You take me right.                        --Bacon.
  
                           Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                           else but the science love of God and our
                           neighbor.                                    --Wake.
  
                           [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                           was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                           You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                                              --Tate.
            (f) 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.
  
                           I take thee at thy word.               --Rowe.
  
                           Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                           Not take the mold.                        --Dryden.
  
      {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
            etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.
  
      {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
      {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
      {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.
  
      {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
            of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
            of bishops. [bd]By your own law, I take your life
            away.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
            or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
      {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
            solicitous. [bd]Doth God take care for oxen?[b8] --1 Cor.
            ix. 9.
  
      {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
            for; to superintend or oversee.
  
      {To take down}.
            (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
                  place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
                  to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
                  pride, or the proud. [bd]I never attempted to be
                  impudent yet, that I was not taken down.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
            (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
            (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
                  house or a scaffold.
            (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
                  words at the time he utters them.
  
      {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
            {Fire}.
  
      {To take ground to the right} [or] {to the left} (Mil.), to
            extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
            to the right or left.
  
      {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
            encouraged.
  
      {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. [bd]Take heed what
            doom against yourself you give.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
            ways.
  
      {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.
  
      {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.
  
      {To take in}.
            (a) To inclose; to fence.
            (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
            (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
                  or furl; as, to take in sail.
            (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
                  [Colloq.]
            (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
                  water.
            (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                           For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                           in.                                             --Chapman.
            (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. [bd]Some
                  bright genius can take in a long train of
                  propositions.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
                  newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
      {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.
  
      {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. [bd]Thou
            shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.[b8]
            --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      {To take issue}. See under {Issue}.
  
      {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.
  
      {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
            regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
      {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
            attention.
  
      {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.
  
      {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
            manner.
  
      {To take off}.
            (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
                  from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
                  take off one's hat.
            (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
            (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
            (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
                  an argument.
            (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
            (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
            (g) To purchase; to take in trade. [bd]The Spaniards
                  having no commodities that we will take off.[b8]
                  --Locke.
            (h) To copy; to reproduce. [bd]Take off all their models
                  in wood.[b8] --Addison.
            (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
            (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
                  than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Notice \No"tice\, n. [F., fr. L. notitia a being known,
      knowledge, fr. noscere, notum, to know. See {Know}.]
      1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by
            the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.
  
                     How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take
                     of other persons !                              --I. Watts.
  
      2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
            given or received; means of knowledge; express
            notification; announcement; warning.
  
                     I . . . have given him notice that the Duke of
                     Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here. --Shak.
  
      3. An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks;
            as, book notices; theatrical notices.
  
      4. A writing communicating information or warning.
  
      5. Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
  
      {To take notice of}, to perceive especially; to observe or
            treat with particular attention.
  
      Syn: Attention; regard; remark; note; heed; consideration;
               respect; civility; intelligence; advice; news.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
      t[c7]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
      1. 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. Hence, specifically:
            (a) 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.
  
                           This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                                              27.
  
                           Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                           Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                           They that come abroad after these showers are
                           commonly taken with sickness.      --Bacon.
  
                           There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                           And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
            (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
                  captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                           Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                                              --Prov. vi.
                                                                              25.
  
                           Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                           that he had no patience.               --Wake.
  
                           I know not why, but there was a something in
                           those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
                           shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
                           which took me more than all the outshining
                           loveliness of her companions.      --Moore.
            (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
                  have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                           Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                           son. And Jonathan was taken.         --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                                              42.
  
                           The violence of storming is the course which God
                           is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                           sinners.                                       --Hammond.
            (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
                  require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                           This man always takes time . . . before he
                           passes his judgments.                  --I. Watts.
            (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
                  picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                           Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                           The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                           forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                           from this consideration of the most lasting
                           happiness and misery.                  --Tillotson.
            (g) 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.
            (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
            (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
                  over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                           He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
            (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
                  to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
      2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
            endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
            (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
                  refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                           Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                           murderer.                                    --Num. xxxv.
                                                                              31.
  
                           Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                           threescore.                                 --1 Tim. v.
                                                                              10.
            (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
                  partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
            (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
                  clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
            (d) 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.
            (e) 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.
  
                           You take me right.                        --Bacon.
  
                           Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                           else but the science love of God and our
                           neighbor.                                    --Wake.
  
                           [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                           was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                           You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                                              --Tate.
            (f) 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.
  
                           I take thee at thy word.               --Rowe.
  
                           Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                           Not take the mold.                        --Dryden.
  
      {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air},
            etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc.
  
      {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
      {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
      {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities.
  
      {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
            of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
            of bishops. [bd]By your own law, I take your life
            away.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
            or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
      {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
            solicitous. [bd]Doth God take care for oxen?[b8] --1 Cor.
            ix. 9.
  
      {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care
            for; to superintend or oversee.
  
      {To take down}.
            (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
                  place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
                  to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
                  pride, or the proud. [bd]I never attempted to be
                  impudent yet, that I was not taken down.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
            (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
            (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
                  house or a scaffold.
            (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
                  words at the time he utters them.
  
      {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and
            {Fire}.
  
      {To take ground to the right} [or] {to the left} (Mil.), to
            extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
            to the right or left.
  
      {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be
            encouraged.
  
      {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. [bd]Take heed what
            doom against yourself you give.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
            ways.
  
      {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on.
  
      {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse.
  
      {To take in}.
            (a) To inclose; to fence.
            (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
            (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
                  or furl; as, to take in sail.
            (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
                  [Colloq.]
            (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
                  water.
            (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                           For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                           in.                                             --Chapman.
            (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. [bd]Some
                  bright genius can take in a long train of
                  propositions.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
                  newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
      {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}.
  
      {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. [bd]Thou
            shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.[b8]
            --Ex. xx. 7.
  
      {To take issue}. See under {Issue}.
  
      {To take leave}. See {Leave}, n., 2.
  
      {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it
            regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
      {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular
            attention.
  
      {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}.
  
      {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
            manner.
  
      {To take off}.
            (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
                  from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
                  take off one's hat.
            (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
            (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
            (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
                  an argument.
            (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
            (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
            (g) To purchase; to take in trade. [bd]The Spaniards
                  having no commodities that we will take off.[b8]
                  --Locke.
            (h) To copy; to reproduce. [bd]Take off all their models
                  in wood.[b8] --Addison.
            (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
            (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
                  than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {To take on}, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
            on a character or responsibility.
  
      {To take one's own course}, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
            the measures of one's own choice.
  
      {To take order for}. See under {Order}.
  
      {To take order with}, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
            --Bacon.
  
      {To take orders}.
            (a) To receive directions or commands.
            (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
                  {Order}, n., 10.
  
      {To take out}.
            (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
            (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
                  to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
            (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Take \Take\, v. i.
      1. 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. --Shak.
  
                     When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
                     In impressions from mind to mind, the impression
                     taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any
                     manifest effect.                                 --Bacon.
  
      2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
  
                     Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And
                     hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      3. 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.
  
      4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his
            face does not take well.
  
      {To take after}.
            (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes
                  after a good pattern.
            (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.
  
      {To take in with}, to resort to. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
      {To take on}, to be violently affected; to express grief or
            pain in a violent manner.
  
      {To take to}.
            (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become
                  attached to; as, to take to evil practices. [bd]If he
                  does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great
                  friendship with him.[b8] --Walpole.
            (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. [bd]Men of
                  learning, who take to business, discharge it generally
                  with greater honesty than men of the world.[b8]
                  --Addison.
  
      {To take up}.
            (a) To stop. [Obs.] [bd]Sinners at last take up and settle
                  in a contempt of religion.[b8] --Tillotson.
            (b) To reform. [Obs.] --Locke.
  
      {To take up with}.
            (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without
                  opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain
                  fare. [bd]In affairs which may have an extensive
                  influence on our future happiness, we should not take
                  up with probabilities.[b8] --I. Watts.
            (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
  
      {To take with}, to please. --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Measure \Meas"ure\, n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr.
      metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure,
      Gr. [?], E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to
      measure.]
      1. A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or
            extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or
            multiples of which anything is estimated and stated;
            hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
  
      2. An instrument by means of which size or quantity is
            measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.
  
                     False ells and measures be brought all clean adown.
                                                                              --R. of
                                                                              Gloucester.
  
      3. The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according
            to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated;
            estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.
  
                     The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and
                     broader than the sea.                        --Job xi. 9.
  
      4. The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a
            quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited
            quantity or amount.
  
                     It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in
                     three measures of meal.                     --Luke xiii.
                                                                              21.
  
      5. Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds;
            moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in
            measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.
  
                     Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
                     without measure.                                 --Is. v. 14.
  
      6. Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted
            share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due
            proportion.
  
                     Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of
                     my days.                                             --Ps. xxxix.
                                                                              4.
  
      7. The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying
            and selling; as, to give good or full measure.
  
      8. Undefined quantity; extent; degree.
  
                     There is a great measure of discretion to be used in
                     the performance of confession.            --Jer. Taylor.
  
      9. Regulated division of movement:
            (a) (Dancing) A regulated movement corresponding to the
                  time in which the accompanying music is performed;
                  but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the
                  minuet.
            (b) (Mus.) (1) The group or grouping of beats, caused by
                  the regular recurrence of accented beats. (2) The
                  space between two bars. See {Beat}, {Triple},
                  {Quadruple}, {Sextuple}, {Compound time}, under
                  {Compound}, a., and {Figure}.
            (c) (Poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the
                  quantities, or long and short syllables; meter;
                  rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.
  
      10. (Arith.) A number which is contained in a given number a
            number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases,
            the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of
            two or more numbers.
  
      11. A step or definite part of a progressive course or
            policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the
            accomplishment of an object; as, political measures;
            prudent measures; an inefficient measure.
  
                     His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken
                     in the conferring that trust, and lamented his
                     error.                                             --Clarendon.
  
      12. The act of measuring; measurement. --Shak.
  
      13. pl. (Geol.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead
            measures.
  
      {Lineal}, [or] {Long}, {measure}, measure of length; the
            measure of lines or distances.
  
      {Liquid measure}, the measure of liquids.
  
      {Square measure}, the measure of superficial area of surfaces
            in square units, as inches, feet, miles, etc.
  
      {To have hard measure}, to have harsh treatment meted out to
            one; to be harshly or oppressively dealt with.
  
      {To take measures}, to make preparations; to provide means.
           
  
      {To take one's measure}, to measure one, as for a garment;
            hence, to form an opinion of one's disposition, character,
            ability, etc.
  
      {To tread a measure}, to dance in the style so called. See 9
            (a) .
  
                           Say to her, we have measured many miles To
                           tread a measure with her on this grass. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {To take on}, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
            on a character or responsibility.
  
      {To take one's own course}, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
            the measures of one's own choice.
  
      {To take order for}. See under {Order}.
  
      {To take order with}, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
            --Bacon.
  
      {To take orders}.
            (a) To receive directions or commands.
            (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
                  {Order}, n., 10.
  
      {To take out}.
            (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
            (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
                  to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
            (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {To be in the wind}, to be suggested or expected; to be a
            matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.]
  
      {To carry the wind} (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the
            ears, as a horse.
  
      {To raise the wind}, to procure money. [Colloq.]
  
      {To} {take, [or] have}, {the wind}, to gain or have the
            advantage. --Bacon.
  
      {To take the wind out of one's sails}, to cause one to stop,
            or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of
            another. [Colloq.]
  
      {To take wind}, or {To get wind}, to be divulged; to become
            public; as, the story got wind, or took wind.
  
      {Wind band} (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military
            band; the wind instruments of an orchestra.
  
      {Wind chest} (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an
            organ.
  
      {Wind dropsy}. (Med.)
            (a) Tympanites.
            (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue.
  
      {Wind egg}, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg.
  
      {Wind furnace}. See the Note under {Furnace}.
  
      {Wind gauge}. See under {Gauge}.
  
      {Wind gun}. Same as {Air gun}.
  
      {Wind hatch} (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is
            taken out of the earth.
  
      {Wind instrument} (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by
            means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a
            flute, a clarinet, etc.
  
      {Wind pump}, a pump moved by a windmill.
  
      {Wind rose}, a table of the points of the compass, giving the
            states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from
            the different directions.
  
      {Wind sail}.
            (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to
                  convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower
                  compartments of a vessel.
            (b) The sail or vane of a windmill.
  
      {Wind shake}, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by
            violent winds while the timber was growing.
  
      {Wind shock}, a wind shake.
  
      {Wind side}, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.]
            --Mrs. Browning.
  
      {Wind rush} (Zo[94]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wind wheel}, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind.
  
      {Wood wind} (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an
            orchestra, collectively.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Contrary \Con"tra*ry\, n.; pl. {Contraries}.
      1. A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
  
                     No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a
                     knave.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. An opponent; an enemy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      3. the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition
            incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather
            show the contrary. See {Converse}, n., 1. --Locke.
  
      4. (Logic) See {Contraries}.
  
      {On the contrary}, in opposition; on the other hand. --Swift.
  
      {To the contrary}, to an opposite purpose or intent; on the
            other side. [bd]They did it, not for want of instruction
            to the contrary.[b8] --Bp. Stillingfleet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Touch \Touch\, v. i.
      1. To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no
            space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
            --Johnson.
  
      2. To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. [R.]
  
                     Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon
                     gold, that will not touch upon silver. --Bacon.
  
      3. To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or
            casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
  
                     If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they
                     immediately quitted it.                     --Addison.
  
      4. (Naut) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that
            its weather leech shakes.
  
      {To touch and go} (Naut.), to touch bottom lightly and
            without damage, as a vessel in motion.
  
      {To touch at}, to come or go to, without tarrying; as, the
            ship touched at Lisbon.
  
      {To touch on} [or] {upon}, to come or go to for a short time.
            [R.]
  
                     I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched
                     on the several towns that lie on its coasts.
                                                                              --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Touch \Touch\, v. i.
      1. To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no
            space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
            --Johnson.
  
      2. To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. [R.]
  
                     Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon
                     gold, that will not touch upon silver. --Bacon.
  
      3. To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or
            casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
  
                     If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they
                     immediately quitted it.                     --Addison.
  
      4. (Naut) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that
            its weather leech shakes.
  
      {To touch and go} (Naut.), to touch bottom lightly and
            without damage, as a vessel in motion.
  
      {To touch at}, to come or go to, without tarrying; as, the
            ship touched at Lisbon.
  
      {To touch on} [or] {upon}, to come or go to for a short time.
            [R.]
  
                     I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched
                     on the several towns that lie on its coasts.
                                                                              --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toad \Toad\, n. [OE. tode, tade, AS. t[be]die, t[be]dige; of
      unknown origin. Cf. {Tadpole}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the
      genus {Bufo} and allied genera, especially those of the
      family {Bufonid[91]}. Toads are generally terrestrial in
      their habits except during the breeding season, when they
      seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth
      in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night.
      Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that
      secrete an acrid fluid.
  
      Note: The common toad ({Bufo vulgaris}) and the natterjack
               are familiar European species. The common American toad
               ({B. lentiginosus}) is similar to the European toad,
               but is less warty and is more active, moving chiefly by
               leaping.
  
      {Obstetrical toad}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Obstetrical}.
  
      {Surinam toad}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pita}.
  
      {Toad lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a horned toad.
  
      {Toad pipe} (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant ({Equisetum
            limosum}) growing in muddy places. --Dr. Prior.
  
      {Toad rush} (Bot.), a low-growing kind of rush ({Juncus
            bufonius}).
  
      {Toad snatcher} (Zo[94]l.), the reed bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Toad spittle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
           
  
      {Tree toad}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Tree}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toadyism \Toad"y*ism\, n.
      The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy;
      servile adulation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toothsome \Tooth"some\, a.
      Grateful to the taste; palatable. -- {Tooth"some*ly}, adv. --
      {Tooth"some*ness}, n.
  
               Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome
               for me.                                                   --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toothsome \Tooth"some\, a.
      Grateful to the taste; palatable. -- {Tooth"some*ly}, adv. --
      {Tooth"some*ness}, n.
  
               Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome
               for me.                                                   --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toothsome \Tooth"some\, a.
      Grateful to the taste; palatable. -- {Tooth"some*ly}, adv. --
      {Tooth"some*ness}, n.
  
               Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome
               for me.                                                   --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tutsan \Tut"san\, n. [F. toutesaine; tout, toule, all (L. totus)
      + sain, saine, sound, healthy, L. sanus.] (Bot.)
      A plant of the genus {Hypericum} ({H. Andros[d2]mum}), from
      which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also
      {parkleaves}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Twitch \Twitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twitched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Twitching}.] [OE. twicchen, fr. (doubtful) AS. twiccian;
      akin to AS. angeltwicca a worm used for bait, literally, a
      hook twitcher, LG. twikken to tweak, G. zwicken. Cf.
      {Tweak}.]
      To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick
      motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch
      a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of
      grapes.
  
               Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear. --Pope.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Tate County, MS (county, FIPS 137)
      Location: 34.65332 N, 89.94012 W
      Population (1990): 21432 (7474 housing units)
      Area: 1047.7 sq km (land), 16.8 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Titus County, TX (county, FIPS 449)
      Location: 33.21764 N, 94.96831 W
      Population (1990): 24009 (9357 housing units)
      Area: 1063.4 sq km (land), 39.2 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Todd County, KY (county, FIPS 219)
      Location: 36.84025 N, 87.18493 W
      Population (1990): 10940 (4415 housing units)
      Area: 974.8 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
   Todd County, MN (county, FIPS 153)
      Location: 46.07079 N, 94.89899 W
      Population (1990): 23363 (11234 housing units)
      Area: 2439.9 sq km (land), 96.7 sq km (water)
   Todd County, SD (county, FIPS 121)
      Location: 43.17963 N, 100.72888 W
      Population (1990): 8352 (2572 housing units)
      Area: 3595.5 sq km (land), 7.2 sq km (water)

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   That's not a bug, that's a feature!   The {canonical} first
   parry in a debate about a purported bug.   The complainant, if
   unconvinced, is likely to retort that the bug is then at best a
   {misfeature}.   See also {feature}.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   tits on a keyboard n.   Small bumps on certain keycaps to keep
   touch-typists registered. Usually on the `5' of a numeric keypad,
   and on the `F' and `J' of a {QWERTY} keyboard; but older Macs,
   perverse as usual, had them on the `D' and `K' keys (this changed in
   1999).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   That's not a bug, that's a feature!
  
      The {canonical} first parry in a debate about a purported
      {bug}.   The complainant, if unconvinced, is likely to retort
      that the bug is then at best a {misfeature}.
  
      See also {feature}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-02-02)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   tits on a keyboard
  
      Small bumps on certain keycaps to help touch-typists
      find the home keys (ASDF and JKL;) without looking.   They are
      nearly always on the "F" and "J" of a {QWERTY} and the "5" of
      a numeric keypad.   The {Macintosh}, perverse as usual, has
      them on the "D" and "K" keys.
  
      This term is based on the vernacular American expression "as
      useful as tits on a boar" (or boar-hog, bull, bullfrog, or
      many other variants), meaning "not useful".
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1998-02-25)
  
  
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