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und, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. -- To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. -- To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or…

ugh the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.

A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. " Take no byways." Herbert.

r purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.

An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

lls lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.

row. -- To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp. -- To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

bs.] Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger.

ffered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

cary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor.

An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

nt, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.] There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench.

The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander. "To take the captainship." Shak.

nt, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it taken, found, or executed. Bouvier. Wharton.

To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. [Obs.] Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak.

A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains. Milton.

The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.