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Naples, and province of Principalo Ultra : twelve 
miles north-wed of Conza. 
GE-TCHAO, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chang-tong: twenty-feven miles eall- 
ioiith-eaft of Lu. 
To GET, v.a. \nct. I got, anciently ga?; part. pad. 
got, or gotten: [^etan, j^ettan. Sax.] To procure; to- 
obtain.—Of tliat which was our father’s he hatli gotten 
all tliis glory. xxxi. i.—We our bread with 
the pel'll of our lives. Sarn. v. 9.—David gat him a 
name wlien lie returned trom finiting of the Syrians. 
2 Sam. 13.—The word is varioutly tiled: we 
f;iy to get money, to get in,^to get off, to get ready, to get 
a ftomach, and to get a cold. PVatts. —To torce ; to leize ; 
The king- feeing tliis, (farted from where he fat. 
Out from his trembling hand his weapon gat. Daniel. 
All things, but one, you can reffore ; 
The heart you get returns no more. Waller, 
To win by contelf.—He gat Iiis people great honour, 
and he made battles, protecting the holf with his fword. 
I Macc. iii. 3.—To get the day ot them ot his own na¬ 
tion, would be a molt unhappy day tor him. 2 Mac. v. 6. 
Heiiry tlie lixth hath loft 
All that which Henry the fifth had gotten. Shakefpeare. 
“d'o have poU'clfion of; to have. This fenlc is com- 
moiily in the compound preterite. 
Then forcing thee, by fire he made thee bright; 
Nay, thou haft^ct the face of man. Herbert. 
To beget upon a female.—-Children they got on their 
female captives. Locke —If you’ll take ’em as their fa- 
tfiers got ’em, lo and well ; if not, you muft Ifay ’till 
they get a better generation. Dtyden. 
The god of day, defeending from above, 
.Mixt witlt the day, and got tlie queen ot love. Granville. 
d o gain as profit.—Thougli creditors will lofe one-fitth 
ot their principal and ule, and landlords one-fitth of 
their income, yet the debtors and tenants will not get 
It. Locke. —To gain a luperiority or advantage ; 
If they ground and ’vantage of thejeing. 
Then join you with them like a rib of fteel. Shakefpeare. 
To earn ; to gain by labour.—If it be fo much pains to 
count the money I would fpend, what labour did it colt 
uiy anceltors to get it ? Locke. —To receive as a price or 
reward.—Any tax laid on foreign commodities in Eng¬ 
land railes their price, and makes the impartei\;o-e< more 
for them ; but a tax laid on your home-made commodi¬ 
ties lefl'ens their price. Locke. —To learn.—Gtt by heart 
the more common and ufeful words out of fome judi¬ 
cious vocabulary. Watts. —To procure to be.—I lhall 
ftiew how we may get it thus informed, and afterwards 
prelerve and keejx it fo. South. —To put into any ftate. 
—Nature taught them to make certain vellets of a tree, 
which they got down, not with cutting, but with fire. 
Abbot. 
Take no repulfe, whatever file doth fay ; 
For, get you gone, Ihe dotli not mean, away. Shakefpeare. 
To prevail on ; to Induce.—Though the king could not 
get him to engage in a life of bulinefs, he made him 
fiowever liis chief companion. SpeBator. —To draw ; to 
hook.—With much communication will he tempt thee, 
and fmiling upon thee gft out thy fecrets. Ecclef. xiii.—■ 
After having out of you every thing you can fpare, 
I Icorn to trelpafs. Guardian. —To betake; to remove ; 
implying hafte or danger.—Arife, get thee out from this 
land. Gen. xxxi. 13.—Left they join alfo unto our ene¬ 
mies, and fight againft us, and fo get them up out of the 
land. Exodus ':. 10.—He with all Ipeed gof himfelf with 
his followers to tiie ftrong town of Mega. Knolles's Hif- 
tory. —To remove by force or art.—They would be glad 
GET 
to get out thofe weeds which their own hands have 
planted, and which now have taken too deep root to be 
eafily extirpated. Locke. —To put.— Get on thy boots; 
we'li ride all night. Shakefpeare. 
ToGet off. To fell or difpofe of by fome expedient. 
—Wood, to get his halfpence off, offered an hundred 
pounds in his coin for feventy in lilver. S-oifi. 
To Get over. To conquer; to fupprefs ; to pafs with¬ 
out being flopped in thinking or acting.—’Tis very ple.a- 
fant to hear the lady propofe her doubts, and to fee the 
pains lie is at to get over tliem. Addifon. —To remove this 
difficulty, Peterborough was difpatched to Vienna, and 
got over fome part of thofe difputes. Swift. 
To GET, V. n. To arrive at any ftate or pofture by 
degrees wdth fome kind of labour, effort, or difficulty t 
tiled either of perfons or things.—The ftranger fhall get 
up above thee very high, and thou flialt come down 
very low. Deut. xxviii. 43.—The fox bragged what a 
number of fliifts and devices he had to get from the 
hounds; and the cat faid he had but one, which was to 
climb a tree. Bacon. —The removing of the pains we 
feel is the getting out of mifery, and confequently the 
firft thing to be done in order to happinefs. Locke. 
So have I feen fome fearful hare maintain 
A courfe, ’till tir’d before the dog Ihe la)' ; 
Who, ftretch’d behind her, pants upon the plain, 
Paft pow’r to kill, as file to get away. Dryden. 
Imprifon’d fires, in the clofe dungeons pent. 
Roar to get loofe, and ftruggle for a vent; 
Eating their way, and undermining all, 
’Till with a mighty burft whole mountains fall. Addifon. 
To fall ; to come by accident.—Two or tliree men of 
the town are got among them. Tatlcr. —To find the way ; 
to infinuate itfelf.—A child runs to overtake and get up 
to the top of his fhadow, which (till advances at the 
fame rate that he does. Locke. 
So high he’s mounted in his airy hopes. 
That now the wind is got into his head, 
And turns his brains to frenzy. Dryden. 
Tis move ; to remove ; 
Get home with thy fewel make ready to fet ; 
The fooncr, and eafier carriage to gel. Tuffer. 
To have recourfe to.—Lying is fo'che^ap a cover for 
any mifearriage, and fo mucli in fafliion, tliat a c+iild 
can fcarce be kept from getting into it. Locke-. —To go ; 
to repair.—A knot of ladies, got together by themfelves, 
is a very fchool of impertinence. Swift. —To put one’s 
felf in any ftate.—Without God’s alliftaiice we can no 
more get quit of our affliction, than but by his permif- 
-fion we fliould have fallen into it. Wake. —As the ob¬ 
taining the love of valuable men is the happiell end of 
this life, fo the next felicity is to get rid of fools and 
fcoundrels. Pope. —To become by any ait what one was 
not before : 
The laughing fot, like all unthinking men. 
Bathes andget^ drunk ; then bathes and drinks again. 
Dryden. 
To be gainer; to receive advantage ; 
Like jewels to advantage fet. 
Her beauty by the fliade does^ge^. Waller. 
To Get ff. To efcape.—The gallies, by tlie benefit 
of the fhores and fhallows, got off. Bacon. 
Whate’er thou doft, deliver not thy fword ; 
With that thou may’ll get ff, tho’ odds oppofe thee. 
Dryden. 
To Get up. To rife from repofe.—Sheep will get up 
betimes in the morning to feed againft rain. Bacon. —To 
rife from a feat. To remove from a place. —Get you up 
from about the tabernacle of Korah, Datlian, and Abi- 
ram. Numb, xvi. 
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