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The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights Shak. Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. -- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon t…

on often gives a violent impulse to the will. These were my natural impulses for the undertaking. Dryden.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

Reception; a taking in. [R.] Poe.

One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university. Walton.

mprehending the stated limit or extremes; as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday; -- opposed to exclusive.

Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. B…

Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.

nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs. Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by intrussusception. McKendrick.…

Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. [R.] Woodward.

ss. The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. Locke.

(Card Playing) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to play to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.

ly when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the bead and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the…

find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. 7. To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] "Knocking about town." W. Irving. -- To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were beginning to…

n; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull, the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.

A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.

To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue. I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag. Tennyson.