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 rightor 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

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