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Imposition; fraud. [Colloq.]

An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.

That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

p. p. of Take.

One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

One whose occupation it is to make tents. Acts xviii. 3.

The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.

See Tough-pitch (b).

One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.

An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton.

One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. Beau. & Fl.

To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate. God does not make or unmake things to try experiments. T. Burnet.

Unshaken. [Obs.] Shak.

Not slaked; unslacked; as, an unslaked thirst; unslaked lime.

To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] Wyclif. Spenser.

A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador. [India]

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).