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Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. {Took}; p. p. {Takend}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
   t[=e]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. ``By your own law, I take your life away.''
      --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. ``Doth God take care for oxen?'' --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. ``I never attempted to be
          impudent yet, that I was not taken down.''
          --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. ``Take heed what
      doom against yourself you give.'' --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. ``Some
          bright genius can take in a long train of
          propositions.'' --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. ``Thou
      shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.''
      --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. ``The Spaniards having
          no commodities that we will take off.'' --Locke.
      (h) To copy; to reproduce. ``Take off all their models in
          wood.'' --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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      (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite
          at a regulated height. --Simmonds.

   {Fire bar}, a grate bar.

   {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight.

   {Fire beetle}. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.

   {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear
      as if burnt by fire.

   {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for
      the fire.

   {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining
      intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or
      of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and
      used for lining fire boxes, etc.

   {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished
      fires.

   {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}.

   {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through
      mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac.
      [U.S.]

   {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}.

   {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in
      extinguishing fires.

   {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton.

   {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}.

   {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary.

   {Fire drill}.
      (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for
          practice.
      (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by
          rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; --
          used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by
          many savage peoples.

   {Fire eater}.
      (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire.
      (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur.
          [Colloq.]

   {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels,
      for throwing water to extinguish fire.

   {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from
      burning buildings.

   {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam
      of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off
      afterward by heat.

   {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire
      gilding.

   {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire;
      also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes,
      in consideration of the payment of a premium or small
      percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an
      owner of property from loss by fire during a specified
      period.

   {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs,
      poker, and shovel.

   {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out
      fire.

   {Fire master}
      (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the
            composition of fireworks.

   {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against
      fire.

   {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections.
      

   {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test
      was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon
      red-hot irons. --Abbot.

   {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially
      the receptacle for the priming of a gun.

   {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the
      main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing
      fires.

   {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the
      contract of insurance against loss by fire.

   {Fire pot}.
      (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles,
          formerly used as a missile in war.
      (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a
          furnace.
      (c) A crucible.
      (d) A solderer's furnace.

   {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting
      fire to an enemy's ships.

   {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to
      their quarters in case of fire.

   {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking
      the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by
      exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally
      superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond.

   {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting
      fire to an enemy's ships.

   {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire.

   {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites,
      caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen.
      --Raymond.

   {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are
      exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of
      combustion; heating surface.

   {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun
      in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
      --Farrow.

   {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine.

   {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American
      Indians.

   {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly
      in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called
      Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India.

   {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}.

   {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager;
      zealous.

   {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession
      by a line of troops.

   {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which
      St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn.

   {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}.

   {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle.

   {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.