take 
They suffer not their council to go through with the 
resolution anil direction, as if it dcpemled on them, but 
take the matter back Mo their uien hand*. 
Bacon, Counsel (ed. 1887X 
In flu 1 pre-C iucs' codes the owner was generally al- 
lowed to fill.'' the law into A/x turn hand, as in r;ir]y Koni:ui 
law, ami ^i-t hack his ^unds l>> for.-.- if he could, no doubt 
with the assistance of his neighbours where possible. 
!:<:/, llrit.. XXIII. 232. 
To take issue. See imrue. - To take it 111. SeeiH. 
To take it out Of. (a) To obtain or extent reparation or 
indemnity fnnn; compel Mili.-faction from. (Colloq.J 
If any one steals anything from me. . . . and I catch 
him, I ''Mr // out of him on the spot. I give him a jolly 
good liiilinu. 
Mintlii ii : , f,inlon Lationr and London Poor, I. 31, 
Mr. and Mrs. Boffin (as the Haying Is) took it out of the 
Inexhaustible I baby] in n shown- of careaaei, 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Iv. IS. 
i ''I To exhaust the strength or energy of. [Colloq.] 
They tried back slowly anil sorrowfully,. . . beginning 
to feel how the run had taken it mtt of them. 
T. Hut/ha, Tom Urown nt Rugby, 1. 7. 
To take leave. See leave*. To take namst. See 
namu. To take notice of or that, (a) To note ; mark ; 
observe. 
You are to take notice that the flsh lies or swims nearer 
the bottom, mid In deeper water, In winter than In sum- 
mer. /. \\'<iti"ii. Complete Angler, p. 106. 
In Bethlehem I took particular notice of their ovens, 
which are sunk down In the ground, and have an arch 
turned over them. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 40. 
Puff. They were spies of Lord Burlcigh's. 
Sneer, lint isn't It odd, they were never taken notice of, 
not even by the commander-in-chlef ? 
Sheridan, The Critic, II. 2. 
(6) To remark upon ; make mention of. 
I have something to beg of you too : which Is not to 
take notice of our Marriage to any whatever, yet a while, 
for some Reasons very Important to me. 
WycherUy, Plain Dealer, T. 1. 
To take occasion. See oecation. To take off. (a) To 
remove : as, to take off one's hat or gloves ; to have one's 
beard taken off. (o) To remove or transfer to another place : 
as, take off the prisoner to jail ! take yourself off! (c) To 
make away with; put to death; kill. 
Whose execution '"*,.- your enemy off. 
Shak., Macbeth, 111. 1. 106. 
Till at last the wisdom of our Governours thought It fit 
to take him [Jesus] "//', and make him an example for Re- 
formers. StUlingJteet, Sermons, II. I. 
(a) To deduct : used specifically of reduction of price. 
The justices decreed to take off a halfpenny In a quart 
from the price of ale. Swift, Miscellanies. (I.nltiuiii.) 
(e) To withdraw ; deprive, free, or relieve one of : as, to 
take responsibility off; to lake off n curse. 
Your power and your command is taken off. 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 331. 
Penitence does appease 
The Incensed powers, and sacrifice takes off 
Their heavy angers. 
Fletcher (and another 1), Prophetess, Iv. 1. 
(/t) To withhold ; hold back ; deter. 
No means either he, or y* letters w write, could take off 
M r . Sherley v y rest from putting both y Friendship and 
Whft-Angell on v- generall accounte. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 280. 
It is as plain that one great End of the Christian Doc- 
trine was to take Mankind offtrom giving Divine Worship 
to Creatures. Stittingfleet, Sermons, III. vL 
(a) To take In trading ; purchase. 
That vessel found courteous entertainment with him, 
and he took off all her commodities, but not at so gooa 
rates as they expected. 
Wintliri'/i. Hist. New England, II. 245. 
(A) To drink off ; swallow. 
Where she dranke to him a cup of poysoned liquor ; and 
hauing taken off almost halfe, she reached him the rest : 
which after she saw he had drunke, she called upon her 
husbands name aloude. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. S21. 
(i) To reproduce ; copy. 
It would, perhaps, be no Impertinent design to take off 
all their models In wood, which might not only give us 
some notion of the ancient music, but help us to pleaaanter 
instruments than are now in use. 
Addunn, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 4t!.A 
Hence (J) To personate; Imitate; mimic, especially in 
ridicule. 
She was always mimicking. She took off the excise- 
man, and the farmers, and her grandmother, and the very 
parson, how she used to make us Inugh ! mimicking! 
why it was like a looking-glass, and the folks standing in 
front of It, and speaking behind it, all at one tin < 
C. Jieade, Art ; a Dramatic Tale, p. 174. 
To take offense. See offense. "To take on or upon 
(one's self), (a) To put on ; invest one's self with ; fig- 
uratively, to assume, as a property, characteristic, or mode 
of being. 
Christ our Lord took upon him the form of a servant. 
Milton, Church-Government, II. 1. 
Thus It Is that the grief of the passing moment takes 
upon itself an individuality, ami a character of climax, 
which it is destined to lose after a while. 
Hawthorne. Seven Gables, xvl. 
(6) To assume as a duty or responsibility ; undertake ; 
take the burden or the blame of. 
The good newn . . . appeased their fury; but condi- 
tionally that Ratliffe should be deposed, and that Cap- 
taine Smith would take ri Ai'w the government. 
Quoted in Cajit. John Ani'M't Works, I. 180. 
OKI:. 
She loves me, even to suffer for my sake ; 
And on kernel/ would my refusal take. 
Dryden, Tyrannic Love, Iv. 1. 
(e) To lay claim to ; arrogate, as power or dignity, to one's 
self. 
A Maid called La Pucelle, takiivj upon her to be Bent 
from <jod for the Good of France, and to expel tin- l.;r/ 
llsh. llaker. Chronicles, p. 183. 
A band of critics, who take upon them to decide for the 
whole town. Sheridan, The Critic, L 1. 
ah To apply to one's -If. 
Of goode men am I nought agast. 
For they wole M/U-/I on hem no thyng, 
Whaune that they knowe al my meuyng. 
Kum. of the Rose, I. 6107. 
To take one down a buttonhole, to take one a but- 
tonhole lower, to lower one's pride or pretensions ; take 
one down a peg: used literally in the second quotation. 
[Colloq.) 
o, friar, you grow choleric. . . . On my word. I'll tote 
you down a button-hole. Peelr, Edward 1., viii. 
Master, let me take you a button-hole lover. Do you not 
see Pompcy is uncasing for the combat? 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 706. 
To take one napping. See nopi. To take one's 
bells. See orfji.- To take one's chance. See chance. 
To take one's ease, to make one's self comfortable. 
Shall I not take mine ease In mine Inn but I shall have 
my pocket picked t Shot., 1 Hen. IV., III. 3. <.r>. 
To take one's gait See gate*. To take one's life In 
one's hand, to lake mortal risks ; act In disregard or de- 
fiance of personal danger. 
The other [youngster) goes out on the frontier, runs his 
chances In encounters with wild animals, finds thttt to 
make his way he must take hi* life in hit hand, and assert 
his rights. The Century, XXXVI. 2S3. 
To take one's mark amiss, to go wide of the mark ; be 
at fault , mistake. 
Sir, you talk as if yon knew something more than all 
the world doth ; and, If I take not my mark ami**, I deem 
I have half a guess of yon. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 163. 
To take one's part, to side with, stand by, or aid one. 
If the provost take, our part . . . we may bell-the-cat 
with the best of them. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, Til. 
To take one's self seriously, to regard one's conduct, 
opinions, etc., with exaggerated gravity, as If above jest- 
Ing ; hence, to attach a solemn importance to one's self. 
Your solemn ass must needs take himse(f seriously ; the 
man of deep, keen, quick perception of the ludicrous can 
never do so. 11. K. Martin, Footprints of Charles Lamb, til. 
To take one's turn. See turn. To take one tardy'. 
See tardy. To take on the broadside. See broadside. 
To take opportunity, to take occasion ; turn to ad- 
vantage any incident, occurrence, or occasion. 
They tonkc oppertunitie, and thrust Levetenante Fltcber 
out a dores, and would suffer him to come no more amongst 
them. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 237. 
To take ordert, to take orders. See order. To take 
out. (a) To remove from within a place, or from a num- 
ber of other things : as, to take an invalid out for a walk ; 
to take a book out of a library. (ft) To remove by cleansing 
or the like : as, to take out a sUIn or a blot (e) To remove 
so as to deprive one of : as, to take the pride or nonsense 
out of a youngster ; the running took the wind out of him. 
(d) To obtain or accept as an equivalent : as, he took the 
amount of the debt out in goods. 
Becaiue of the old proverbe, What they want in meate, 
let them Ink, 1 out In urinke. 
Heywood, Fair Maid of the Wert (Works, ed. 1874, n. 280), 
(e) To procure for one's self ; get Issued for one's own use 
or benefit : as, to take out a patent or a summons, (/t) To 
copy : as, to take out a part from a manuscript play . 
O love, why dost thon in thy beautiful sampler set such 
a work for my desire to take out, which Is as much Impos- 
sible ? Si'r P. Sidney, Arcadia, II. 
Sweet Bianca, 
Take me this work out. 
SAo*., Othello, III. 4. 179. 
To take over, (a) To assume the ownership, control, or 
management of. 
No sooner had Katkoff taken over the Moscow Gazette 
than he devoted his attention wholly to the Polish ques- 
tion. Contemporary Rev., LII. 510. 
The consequence was a great Increase in forced sales of 
land, of which much was taken over by the European cred- 
itor, fortniyhtly Rev., N. a, XLIII. 632. 
(ft) To receive ; derive. 
In short, whatever and however diverse may be their 
alms, the Gilds take over from the family the spirit which 
held it together and guided it 
English GUdt (E. E. T. S.), p. Ixxx. 
To take pains. See jxrini. To take part in or with. 
See part. To take pepper in the nose*. See nowi. 
To take pity upon, place, pleasure In, possession, 
pot-luck, precedence of, rank, root, scorn', shape, 
ship, shipping', sight, silk, soil, stock, strife', tent. 
See the nouns. To take the air. (o) See <rir'. (ft) To 
soar : said of birds. 
A bird is said to take the air when it seeks to escape by 
trying to rise higher than the falcon. Encyc. Brit. , IX. 7. 
To take the bent. See bent?. To take the bit in the 
teeth, see 6ii. TO take the bull by the horns. See 
ftuUL To take the coif, the cross, the crown of the 
causey, the essay', the field, the foil'. See coif, croui, 
crown, etc. To take the ground (naut.\ to touch bot- 
tom ; run aground. 
"A few hours after we lost sight of this brig," said the 
boatswain, "the ship fool 1 the irround." 
W. C. ItumeU, Sailor's Sweetheart, xlv. 
To take the hand of or from t. Same as to take the wall of. 
take 
They tfth m> < ting In an antechamber txj the secretary 
of state, the Spanish ambassador, leaning to the wall In that 
|M>sture that he tm>k the hajid of the Kngllbh ambassador, 
said publicly, " I hold this place In the right of the kinK 
my master"; which small punctilio, ticiiiK not resented by 
our ambassador at that tin , L- i\ .- tin- Spaniard occasion 
tn bnur that lit tiint Intern If,-- I,"/"/ Irnm our ambassador. 
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Life fed. Uowells), p. 186. 
To take the laboring oar. See foftori. To take the 
1&WO Same as to have the lav qf (which iee, under /air 1). 
The "III. 'i thai li<les along with him Is Tom Touchy, a 
fellow famous for takin t th> Inn nt c\ rry iMnly. 
Addition, Spectator, No. 122. 
To take the mantle, the measure of, the pas, the 
pledge, the reins, see the nouns. To take the oath, 
to take a drink. (Slang, r. s.]- To take the road, (a) See 
road. (6) Stme M to take to the road, See nod. (c)Theat., 
to go on a round of engagements and performances from 
town to town : said of a traveling company or show. To 
take the say, the shilling, the shine out of, the sun, 
the test, the veil s.-e the nouns. To take the wall of, 
to pass (one) on that part of the road nearest the wall (this, 
when there were no sidewalks, was to take the safest and 
best position, usually yielded to the superior in rank) ; 
hence, to get the better of In any way. To take the 
wind out of one's sails. See tail i . - To take time by 
the forelock. See /<,/-,/.**-. To take to heart. See 
heart. - To take to one's bosom, to marry. - To take to 
pieces, (a) To separate into the component parts: as, to 
take a gun or a clock to pieces, (ft) To examine piecemeal ; 
dissect ; analyze ; especially, to show Inherent weakness or 
defects In ; pick to pieces. 
The Duke of Bedford tool; the treaty, and in the conclu- 
sion of his speech the ministry, to piecet. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 278. 
To take to task. See fort. To take turns. See turn. 
To take up. (a) To pick up ; lift ; raise. 
Who can take vp the Ocean In a spoone? 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 3. 
They who have lost all to his Subject* may stoop and 
take up the reward. ititton, Eikonoklastes, vt. 
(ft) To take Into one's company, society, etc. 
You are to take soldiers up In counties as yon go. 
Shak., 2 II. -n IV., ii. i. 190. 
Our men, retyping to the water side, got their boat and 
ere they had rowed a quarter of a myle towards Hatoruk 
they tooke vp foure of their fellowes. 
Quoted In Capt. John Smith't Works, L 101. 
(e) To absorb : as, sponges take up water. 
The pleasures and pains of the higher senses are taken 
up into the emotion of beauty. 
J. Sully, Outlines of PsycboL, p. 478. 
(d) To arrest ; take Into custody. 
An officer patroles about the city [Cairo], more espe- 
cially by night ; ... he takes up all persons he finds com- 
mitting any disorders, or that cannot give an account of 
themselves. Pococke, Description of the East, 1. 165. 
Policeman, take me up 
No doubt I am some criminal ! 
W. S. Gilbert, Phrenology. 
(e) To assume ; enter npon ; espouse : as, to take up a pro- 
fession ; to take up a quarrel. 
Fear not, Cesario ; take thy fortunes up. 
Shak., T. N., T. 1. 151. 
Soon as the evening shades prevail. 
The moon takes up the wondrous tale. 
Addison, Paraphrase of Ps. xix. 
(/) To set up; begin. 
They shall take up a lamentation for thee. 
Eiek. xxvi. 17. 
(pt) To encounter ; challenge ; oppose. 
One power against the French, 
And one against Glendower ; perforce a third 
Must lake up us. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., I. 3. 73. 
King Henry in the mean Time followed his Pleasures, 
and In June kept a solemn Just at Greenwich, where he 
and Sir Charles Brandon took up all Comers. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 256. 
(A) To meet and deal with ; treat or dispose of satisfac- 
torily ; settle or adjust properly. 
I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel. 
Shak., As you Like it v. 4. 104. 
(0 To catch together and fasten : as, to take up an artery ; 
to take up dropped stitches. 
A large vessel opened by Incision must be taken up be- 
fore you proceed. Sharpe, Surgery. 
CO To check with dissent, remonstrance, or rebuke. 
One of his relations tool: him up roundly, for stooping 
so much below the dignity of his profession. 
Sir R. L' Estrange. 
( J-t) To stop ; bring to a stand. 
For a small piece of Money a man may pass quiet enough, 
and for the most part only the poor are taken up. 
Dampirr, Voyages, II. L 78. 
(I) To occupy ; employ ; engage ; engross : as, to take up 
room or time ; to take up one's attention. 
He Is taken up with great persons; he Is not to know 
yon to-night B. Jonton, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
The men take them up [the public baths] in the morn- 
Ing : and in the afternoon the women. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 54. 
But his fault is onely this, that his mlnde Is somewhat 
much taken rp with his mind:, and his thoughts not loaden 
with any carriage besides. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographle, A Downe-right Scholler. 
My first days at Naples were taken up with the sight of 
processions, which are always very magnificent In the holy 
week. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 424). 
(m) To obtain ; specifically, to procure on credit ; borrow. 
[Colloq.] 
