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To Take up. To begin where the former left off.—The 
plot is purely fiction; for I take it up where the history has 
laid it down. Dry den. 
To Take up. To lift.— Take, up these clothes here v 
quickly: where’s the cowlstaff? Shakspeare. 
To Take up. To occupy locally. 
To Take up. To manage in the place of another.—I 
have his horse to take up the quarrel. Shakspeare. 
To Take up. To comprise.—I prefer in our countryman 
the noble poem of Palemon and Arcile, which is perhaps 
not much inferior to the Ilias, only it takes up seven years. 
Dry den. 
To Take tip. To adopt to assume. 
The French and we still change, but here’s the curse, 
They change for better, and we change for worse. 
They take up our old trade of conquering. 
And we are taking their’s to dance and sing. Dryden. 
To Take up. To collect; to exact a tax.—This great 
bassa was born in a poor country village, and in his 
childhood taken from his Christian parents, by such as take 
up the tribute children. Kuolles. 
To Take upon. To appropriate to; to assume; to 
admit to be imputed to.—If 1 had no more wit than he, to 
take a fault upon me that he did, he had been hang'd for’t. 
Shakspeare. 
'To Take upon. To assume; to claim authority.—The 
sense sometimes approaches to neutral. 
These dangerous unsafe lunes i’ th’ king! beshrew them, 
He must be told on’f, and he shall; the office 
Becomes a woman best: I’ll talce't upon me. Shakspeare. 
This verb, like prendre in French, is used with endless 
multiplicity of relations. And its uses are so numerous, that 
they cannot all easily be exemplified. 
To TAKE, v. n. To direct the course; to have a ten¬ 
dency to. 
To shun thy lawless lust the dying bride, 
Unwary, took along the river’s side. Dryden. 
To please; to gain reception.—Words and thoughts, 
which cannot be changed but for the worse, must of necessity 
escape the transient view upon the theatre; and yet without 
these a play may take. Dryden. —To have the intended or 
natural effect. 
The clods, expos’d to winter winds, will bake. 
For putrid earth will best in vineyards take. Dryden. 
To catch; to fix.—When flame taketh and openeth, it 
giveth a noise. Bacon. 
To Take after. To learn of; to resemble; to imitate. 
Beasts, that converse 
With man, take after him, as hogs 
Get pigs all th’ year, and bitches dogs. Hudihras. 
To Take in with. To resort to.—Men once placed take 
in with the contrary faction to that by which they enter. 
Bacon. 
To Take on. To be violently affected.—Your husband 
is in his old tunes again ; he so takes on yonder with my 
husband, that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but 
tameness to this distemper. Shakspeare. 
To Take on. To claim a character. 
I take not on me here as a physician : 
Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, 
Troop in the throngs of military men : 
But rather 
To purge the obstructions, which begins to stop 
Our very veins of life. Shakspeare. 
To Take on. To grieve; to pine. 
How will my mother, for a father’s death, 
Take on with me, and ne’er be satisfy’d r Shakspeare. 
To Take to. To apply to; to be fond of.—Have him 
understand it as a play of older people, and he will take to 
it of himself. Locke. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1611. 
To Take to. To betake to; to have recourse.—If I 
had taken to the church, I should have had more sense than 
to have turned myself out of my benefice by writing libels. 
Dri/den. 
To Take up. To stop.—The mind of man being natu¬ 
rally timorous of truth, and yet averse to that diligent search 
necessary to its discovery, it must needs take up short of 
what is really so. G/anville. 
To Take up. To reform.—This rational thought 
wrought so effectually, that it made him take zip, and from 
that time prove a good husband. Locke. 
To Take up with. To be contented with.—The ass 
takes up with that for his satisfaction, which he reckoned 
upon before for his misfortune. L' Estrpnge. 
To Take up with. To lodge; to dweli.—Who would not 
rather take up with the wolf in the woods than make such a 
clatter in the world ? IdEstrange. 
To Take with. To please.—Our gracious master is a pre¬ 
cedent to his own subjects, and seasonable mementos may be 
useful; and being discreetly used, cannot but take well with 
him. Bacon. 
TAKELEY, a parish of England, in Essex; 3 miles 
south-east-by-east ot Stansted Montfichet. Population 783. 
TA'KEN, the participle pass, of take. —Thou art taken 
in thy mischief. 2 Sa?n. 
TAKENHAM, a village of England, in Wiltshire, near 
Wootton Basset. 
TAKENO, a town of Japan, in the island ofXimo; 40 
miles east-south-east of Ikva. 
TA'KER s. One that takes. 
He will hang upon him like a disease. 
He is sooner caught than the pestilence. 
And the taker runs presently mad. Shakspeare. 
TA'KING, s. Seizure; distress of mind.—What a taking 
was he in, when your husband asked who was in the basket ? 
Shakspeare. 
TA'KINGNESS, s. Quality of pleasing.—All outward 
adornings—have something in them of a complaisance and 
takingness. Bp. Taylor. 
TAKMITZSKAIA, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tobolsk, on the Irtysch; 36 miles south of Tara. 
TAKONNACK, a mountain of the United States, in 
Massachusetts, south of Great Barrington. Its height is 
estimated at 3000 feet above the ocean. 
TALA, a river of South America, in the province of 
Tucuman, which runs south-south-east, and enters the river 
Salado. 
TALA, a settlement of South America, in the province of 
Tucuman, on the shore of the river Passage. 
TALABO, Cape, a cape on the east coast of the island 
of Celebes. Lat. 0. 50. S. long. 123. 57. E. 
TALAFA, a small island in the South Pacific ocean, 
among those called Hapaae, south-west of Holavia. 
TALAGIR, a small island among the Philippines; 25 
miles west of Samar. 
TALAHIGUA, a settlement of New Granada, in South 
America, and in the province of Carthagena, on the shore 
of the river Magdalena, where it is entered by the Cauca. 
TALALAP, one of the Philippine islands, where the 
Spaniards, in 1630, built a church, and established a small 
religious mission ; but the whole party was soon after murder¬ 
ed by the natives, and the church demolished. 
TALAMANCAS, Rio de los, a river of Guatimala, in 
the province of Costa Rica, which runs into the sea. 
TALAMONE, a small town of Italy, in Tuscany, pro¬ 
vince of Sienna, on the sea-coast; 10 miles north-north¬ 
west of Orbitello. 
TALANDA, a town of Greece, in the north of the ancient 
Boeutia, and in the east of the modern province of Livadia, 
situated on the gulf or channel of the same name, opposite 
to the long island of Euboea or Negroponte; 18 miles north- 
north-east of Livadia, and 25 south-south-east of Zeitum. 
TALANDA, or Atalanta, a small island of European 
Turkey, in the gulf or channel of Talauda, between the east 
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