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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;…

A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]

To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.

er. -- Term fee (Law) (a), a fee by the term, chargeable to a suitor, or by law fixed and taxable in the costs of a cause for each or any term it is in court. -- Terms of a proportion (Math.), the four members of which it is composed. -- To bring to terms, to compel (one) to agree, assent, or submit; to force (one) t…

Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.

To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke xi. 42.

A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

s, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation. Lord high tr…

A tax; an impost. [Obs.] Johnson.

the miner as his recompense. Pryce. Tomlinson. Tribute money, money paid as a tribute or tax. -- Tribute pitch. (Mining) See under Tributer. [Eng.]

To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

A pledge of truth or peace made on payment of a tax. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

n who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not requir…

The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.

of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.

riven to depend for his security against misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his syntax. De Quincey. The virtue of his midnight agony. Keble.

A rate or tax for a supply of water.