get 
II'. Beachamp and my selfe bought this little ship, and 
have set her out, . . . partly to gett up what we are for- 
merly out. 
Weston, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 115. 
To get wind, to become known ; leak out. 
I don't know what's the reason, but in England, if a 
thing of this kind [a duel] yets wind, people make such a 
pother, that a gentleman can never fight in peace and 
quietness. Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 3. 
To get wind of, to learn as by accident: said of some- 
thing intended to be concealed. To get with child. 
See child. =Syn. Get means to 'come into possession of in 
any way, and is thus practically synonymous with a great 
number of words expressing particular phases of that no- 
tion, as gain, obtain, procure, secure, acquire, tarn, bring, 
win, seize, steal, borrow, find, achieve, realize, beyet, etc. 
It also runs off into a wide range of idiomatic use. 
II. intrans. 1. To make acquisition ; gain. 
Whilst he was Secretary of State and Prime Minister he 
had gotten vastly, but spent it as hastily. 
Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 10, 1677. 
The priests get (though that is but for a time), but the 
king and the people lose. I'enn, Liberty of Conscience, v. 
The world is too much with us ; late and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 
Wordsworth, Sonnets, i. 33. 
2. To make progress in a specific direction or 
manner; come into a different state or relation; 
become or come to be : from the reflexive use of 
the transitive verb (see I., 7): followed by a 
modifying or explanatory word or phrase. See 
phrases below. 
Win got thow not to horse, thow and thy peple? 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), iii. 384. 
Harold having once gotten into the Throne, he carried 
himself with great Valour and Justice for the Time he sate 
in it. Baker, Chronicles, p. 19. 
We weighed anchor and set sail, and before ten we gat 
through the Needles. H'inthrop, Hist. New England, 1. 6. 
I saw at Monte Leone some antient inscriptions, and be- 
2504 
Tins is Prof. Glavinie's evidence, which it is impossible 
to get oi'er. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 163. 
(b) To recover from ; obtain relief or release from : as, to 
get over a fever ; to get over one's sorrow. To get quit 
Of, to get rid of. To get rid Of, to disengage one's self 
from; also, to shift off. 
Well, Sir Fretful, I wish yon may be able to get rid as 
easily of the newspaper criticisms as yon do of ours. 
gewgaw 
Thy deeds [shall be] played i 1 thy lifetime by the best 
companies of actors, and be called their grt-peint>i. 
Marnton, Jonson, and Chapman, Eastward Ho, iv. 1. 
But the Gunpowder Plot, there was a get-pciiini .' I have 
presented that to an eighteen or twentypence audience, 
nine times in an afternoon. 
B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v. 1. 
getront, . An obsolete form of gittern. 
Shendan, The Critic, ,. 1. gettable . Seo getab i e , 
the appearance of antagonism between sci- g-pffp- /Jpi/A,.-! -i r, h , _:, __v 
ion will of itself be one of the greatest ben- sewer (,gei er;, n. 1. une wlio gets, gams, ob- 
tains, or acquires. 
To get rid of the 
ence and religion \ 
eftts ever conferred upon the human race. 
J. Fiske, Idea of God, p. 134. 
To get round, (a) [Round, adv.] To go from place to 
place. [Low, U. S.] 
A tough waggon, a moderate load, four good horses, and 
a skilled driver, seem to be able in the West to go any- 
where, or to get round, which amounts to the same. 
W. Shepherd, Prairie Experiences, p. 71. 
(b) [Round, prep.] To take advantage of; circumvent; 
overpersuade. 
One from the land of cakes sought to get round a right 
smart Yankee. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 89. 
Revolve the getter's joy and loser's pain, 
And think if it be worth thy while to gain. 
Rowe, Golden Verses of Pythagoras. 
2. One who begets or procreates. 
Peace is a very . . . lethargy : . . . a getter of more bas- 
tard children than war 's a destroyer of men. 
Shale., Cor., iv. 5. 
3. One employed in digging, or in getting out 
To get shed, shot, or shut of, to get rid of. [Prov. Eng. 
and U. S.] 
by digging: as, a co&l-getter. 
The set who succeed the holers are called getters. These 
commence their operations at the centre of the wall divi- 
sions, and drive out the gibbs, or sprags, and staples. 
Ure, Diet., III. 331. 
Ihmgs that pass thus soon out of the Stomach, I sus- ~-,4.t{_- /t'!_\ , r/ -\n? ti- n 
jet, are little welcome there, and Nature makes haste to getting (get ing), n. [< ME. getting, getmg ; 
verbal n. of get*, t>.] 1. The act of obtaining, 
gaining, or acquiring. 
Get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. 
Prov. iv. 7. 
2. Procreation; generation. 3. Gain; profit. 
It is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges than to 
stoop to petty getting!. Bacon, Expense (ed. 1887). 
Bar. Is 't possible he should be rich ? 
Lop. Most possible ; 
He hath been long, though he had but little settings, 
Drawing together, sir. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iv. 5. 
To my great discontent, do flnd that my gettinqs this year 
have been 573(. less than my last. Pepys, Diary, III. 37. 
pei . . 
get shut of them. Lister, Journey to Paris (1698), p. 167. 
To get through, (a) To pass through and reach a point 
beyond: as, the Israelites got through the Red Sea. (b) 
To come to a conclusion ; finish : often in the fuller form 
to get through with. 
Troops after a forced march of twenty miles are not in 
a good condition for fighting the moment they get through. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 411. 
To get together, to meet ; assemble; convene. To get 
up. (a) [Up, adv.] To arise ; rise from a bed or a seat. 
A young woman who would get up at five o'clock in the 
morning to embroider an antependium, and neglect the 
housekeeping. Miss Braddon, Hostages to Fortune, p. 8. 
(b) [Up, prep.) To ascend ; climb, (c) As a command to a 
DC*" an flwu* iJGUIIC OU11IG MIMQUt 1HSUI IpllUZlS, UllU UC- \"/ I ^ f 1 I' M "I" I - 1 " Iovv , VM4MVI \"f ilo a mHUOlWra IV n AA ^ I ,1. 1 \ -r 
gun to be sensible that we were got into a very bad couu- horse : go ! go ahead ! [Colloq.] To get up and get, getting-POCK (get mg-rok), n. In coal-mtinng, 
try for travelling. * '-*--' ' " " " " " 
I am not 
ting acc 
-. to go away; be off; get out of the way ; "clear out. [tow,' clay ironstone which forms the roof of the coal, 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 201. . M- To get within onet to close with an antagonist, an <} j g so situated that it can be got or mined 
not warm enough even now, but am gradually get- 8O 8 to pre at the same time with the coal itself. [Eng. ] 
limated in that respect. He ... set himself to resist ; but I had in short space * nil ot'iir,1 r< not , ,.V,<.1 ^-o 
Hawlhoi-ne, English Note-Books I 12 Sltm within him, and, giving him a sound blow, sent him get-Up ( get up), n. [< get up, verbal phrase : 
o, *.*... _i,,,,. n. n ... . .. iap<s ftftL \ T<:mnT*TMont nwoaa o,*vmo,.n,i 
to feed fishes. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
[The following specimen of the capabilities of get, tran- 
sitive and intransitive, is given by Dr. Withers : 
I got on horseback within ten minutes after I got your 
letter. When I got to Canterbury, I got a chaise for town : 
but I got wet through before I got to Canterbury; and I 
have got such a cold as I shall not be able to get rid of in 
a hurry. I got to the Treasury about noon, but first of all 
see get 1 .'] 1. Equipment; dress; appearance; 
style. 
There is an air of pastoral simplicity about their whole 
get-up. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, xliii. 
A New York belle, I suppose, from her get-up. 
Maud Howe, A Newport Aquarelle, p. 5. 
2. The general manner or style of production ; 
I got shaved and dressed. I soon got into the secret of external appearance or qualities : as, the get- 
Men's wishes eventually get expressed in their faiths. 
U. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 177. 
3. Togo; start; be off. [Low, western U. S.] 
Thedriverflnallymountedhisbox, . . . and, as he yelled 
to them [his horses] to git, ... all started on a run. 
Rocky Mountains, p. 149. 
4. To be able ; manage : used with an infini- 
,. T j.j ,, . ..,. ., i ywt oimvcu aim UICCU. 1 stiuil J/ut 1IIU) me secret OI *?Jvi^tiic*i ii j')n-n J ii IK i- \ji uu 
tive : as, 1 didn t get to go. [Colloq., Pennsyl- getting a memorial before the board, but I could not get up of the book is excellent, 
vania, U. S.] To get aboard. See aboard^ To get n answer then ; however, I got Intelligence from them" 
above, to rise superior to ; look down upon : as, he is """"- "* T '' '"' ' " ' -- 
getting above his business. To get ahead, to advance; 
prosper. To get along, to make progress; fare. To 
get asleep, to fall asleep. To get at, to reach ; come 
to ; attain ; flnd out : as, to get at a man in a crowd ; to 
get at the exact truth about anything. 
We get at conclusions which are as nearly true as ex- 
periment can show, and sometimes which are a great deal 
more correct than direct experiment can be. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 204. get 1 (get), n. [As Sc. also written gait, ___, . 
To get away, to depart; quit; leave. To get behind, 9 etl > *'] 1. Begetting; breed; offspring: as, 
to lose ground ; fall in the rear or in arrears : as, he is a horse of Dexter*s get. 
fo'paTs ''get pas"t" i8 ^ r *"* W**-** * * No get of any such sire shall be exempt, etc. 
I am 'afeard they will know me: would I could get by o . .... Statutes of Illinois relating to Pedigree 
them ! B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour ii 2 2 - * child: generally a term of contempt (espe- nerb-bennet G. urbanum, of Europe, and of the water- 
eiallv in the fnrm neni\ r^ooroh 1 avens, G. rivale, of Europe, Asia, and North America, 
To get down to descend; come from an elevation.- ^io. e T J '' l- bcotch -J have astringent and tonic properties and a clove-like odor 
To get drunk, to become intoxicated. To get even get^t, See jet 1 . - 
with. See eceni, a. _Tojret_ home.Jo arrive at one's get 3 t,_. An obsolete form otjeft. Chaucer. 
senger that I should likely get one the next morning. As 
soon as I got back to my inn, I got supper and got to bed. 
It was not long before I got to sleep. When I got up in 
the morning, I got my breakfast, and then I got myself 
dressed that I might get out in time to get an answer to 
my memorial. As soon as I got it, I not into the chaise, 
and got to Canterbury by three, and about tea-time I got 
home. I have got nothing for you, and so adieu. 
A hand-book as correct in its statements as this one is 
neat in Its get-up. The American, XII. 106. 
We can do little more than enumerate the publications 
of the Sunday School Union. They are all attractive in 
form and get-up, and suitable in character for their more 
especial purpose. Brit. Quarterly Rev., LXXXIII. 231. 
[Colloq. in both senses.] 
erect seeds and long, persistent, geniculate or 
plumose styles. There are about 30 species, natives 
of temperate and frigid countries, a dozen of which are 
found In the United States. The roots of the avens or 
, 
and are used medicinally, and from their reddish-brown 
color are sometimes known by the names of chocolate-root 
and Indian chocolate. G. Chiloenne, of Chili, with scarlet 
place of residence. To get in. (a) To obtain or make crptahlp fffttta Kin (crpt'a W1 n r< /r/>/l 4- ,iMJ> 1 
an entrance; make way into a place, or to an inner or a g f, T f "(f' e , ^^ ( J*~ ) '- 5** n ""w A -] or dark-crimson flowers, is cultivated "for ornament.' 
terminal point: as, no more passengers can get in; the WJW dug got or procured; Obtainable. 
I do not mean to plunder you of any 
little 
more prints, but 
steamer got in to-day, (b) In 'falconry, to go up to a hawk 
when she has killed her quarry. Encyc. Brit. To get in 
on the ground floor. See floor. To get near, to ap- 
(b) TO alight; descend. To get on. (a) To mount (6) getent. An obsolete past participle of get 1 . 
To proceed; advance; succeed; prosper. To get on for Chaucer. 
*,S?^^ 
gevet, v. 
An obsolete form of give 1 . 
and o. [Also (in 
I was about getting on for twelve when father first bought 
me a concertina. 
Mai/hew, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 193. (Chaucer. 
tf thrd per- 
givegore (Ancren 
, , >b. a redupl. form, 
with the usual variation of vowel, of give, geve, 
a gift, < AS. gifu, a gift, < gifan, give ; for the 
C/LtT lar f th6 Pre86nt iUdiCa * 1Ve f V -ond elemJ'nC'cf.Ts: JJ& flft (only 
to keep on satisfactory or friendly terms with : as, there 
is no getting on with a suspicious man. 
There is no trouble in getting on with Butler. He is just 
as well content with half a loaf as he would be with the 
whole. S. Bowles, in Merriam, II. 421. 
hat, and get out; you were lucky to get out of their 
clutches without loss. 
When they were got out of the wilderness, they present- 
ly saw a Town before them. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 153. 
(6) To come out ; leak out ; become known : as, the secret 
soon got out. To get over, (a) To surmount; over- 
come : as, to get over a wall ; to get over difficulties. 
Some [travelers] . . . get over the prejudices of educa- 
tion, of being bigotted to their own [customs], and learn to 
conform to such as are either innocent or convenient in 
the several countries they visit. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 277. 
Having got nothing; empty-handed. 
gif we gettlesse goo home, the kyng wille be grevede, 
And say we are gadlynges, agaste for a lyttille [easily 
frightened]. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2728. 
get : nothing (get'nuth'ing), n. [< get 1 , v., + 
obj. nothing.] One who through laziness earns 
nothing; an idler. [Bare.] 
Every yet-nothing is a thief, and laziness is a stolen wa- 
ter. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 192. 
getont, getount, n. Same as guidon. 
knyght, his penoun ; euery squier or gentleman, hisgetoun 
or standard, &c. 
Harl. MS., 838, quoted in Archreologia, XXII. 396. 
get-pennyf (get'pen"i), n. [< get 1 , v., + obi. 
penny. Cf. catchpenny.] Something by which 
money is gained ; a catchpenny. 
gewgaws. A similar reduplication appears in 
I. n. 1. A showy trifle ; a pretty 
a toy ; a bauble ; a gaudy 
plaything or ornament. 
And where as men do honour you as auncient persones, 
ye shew yourselfe wanton : and whanne folk renne to see 
gewgawes ye are not the last. 
Golden Book, From the Emperor to Claudius and his Wife. 
A heavy gewgaw, call'd a crown, that spread 
About his temples, drown'd his narrow head, 
And would have crush'd it. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal. 
Such painted puppets ! such a varnish'd race 
Of hollow gewgaws, only dress and face ! 
Pope, Satires of Donne, iv. 209. 
They think that, though the men may be contented 
with homespun stuffs, the women will never get the bet- 
ter of their vanity and fondness for English modes and 
gewgaws. B. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 420. 
2f. A pipe or flute. 
