\Take\ (t[=a]k), v. t.
1. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to
   take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
2. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he
   took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs.
   exc. Slang or Dial.]

\Take\, obs. p. p. of {Take}.
Taken. --Chaucer.

\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.
{To take on}, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
   on a character or responsibility.
{To take one's own course}, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
   the measures of one's own choice.
{To take order for}. See under {Order}.
{To take order with}, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
   --Bacon.
{To take orders}.
   (a) To receive directions or commands.
   (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
       {Order}, n., 10.
{To take out}.
   (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
   (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
       to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
   (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.
   (d) To put an end to; as, to take the conceit out of a
       man.
   (e) To escort; as, to take out to dinner.
{To take over}, to undertake; to take the management of.
   [Eng.] --Cross (Life of G. Eliot).
{To take part}, to share; as, they take part in our
   rejoicing.
{To take part with}, to unite with; to join with.
{To take place}, {root}, {sides}, {stock}, etc. See under
   {Place}, {Root}, {Side}, etc.
{To take the air}.
   (a) (Falconry) To seek to escape by trying to rise higher
       than the falcon; -- said of a bird.
   (b) See under {Air}.
{To take the field}. (Mil.) See under {Field}.
{To take thought}, to be concerned or anxious; to be
   solicitous. --Matt. vi. 25, 27.
{To take to heart}. See under {Heart}.
{To take to task}, to reprove; to censure.
{To take up}.
   (a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
   (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
       amount; to take up money at the bank.
   (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
       1.
   (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
       replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
       (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
   (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
       up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
   (f) To take permanently. ``Arnobius asserts that men of
       the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the
       Christian religion.'' --Addison.
   (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
       to take up vagabonds.
   (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]
             The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
                                               --Bacon.
   (i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
             One of his relations took him up roundly.
                                               --L'Estrange.
   (k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
       continuous succession.
             Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon
             takes up the wondrous tale.       --Addison.
   (l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
       manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
       to take up current opinions. ``They take up our old
       trade of conquering.'' --Dryden.
   (m) To comprise; to include. ``The noble poem of Palemon
       and Arcite . . . takes up seven years.'' --Dryden.
   (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
       assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps.
       xxvii. 10.
   (o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take
       up a contribution. ``Take up commodities upon our
       bills.'' --Shak.
   (p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
   (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as,
       to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
       tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack
       thread in sewing.
   (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
       quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak.
{To take up arms}. Same as {To take arms}, above.
{To take upon one's self}.
   (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to
       assert that the fact is capable of proof.
   (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed
       to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
       one's self a punishment.
{To take up the gauntlet}. See under {Gauntlet}.

\Take\, v. i.
1. To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or
   intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was
   inoculated, but the virus did not take. --Shak.
         When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
                                               --Bacon.
         In impressions from mind to mind, the impression
         taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any
         manifest effect.                      --Bacon.
2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
         Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And
         hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
                                               --Addison.
3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's
   self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox,
   being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his
   face does not take well.
{To take after}.
   (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes
       after a good pattern.
   (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.
{To take in with}, to resort to. [Obs.] --Bacon.
{To take on}, to be violently affected; to express grief or
   pain in a violent manner.
{To take to}.
   (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become
       attached to; as, to take to evil practices. ``If he
       does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great
       friendship with him.'' --Walpole.
   (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. ``Men of
       learning, who take to business, discharge it generally
       with greater honesty than men of the world.''
       --Addison.
{To take up}.
   (a) To stop. [Obs.] ``Sinners at last take up and settle
       in a contempt of religion.'' --Tillotson.
   (b) To reform. [Obs.] --Locke.
{To take up with}.
   (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without
       opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain
       fare. ``In affairs which may have an extensive
       influence on our future happiness, we should not take
       up with probabilities.'' --I. Watts.
   (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
{To take with}, to please. --Bacon.

\Take\, n.
1. That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish
   captured at one haul or catch.
2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one
   time.