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
