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ter, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking. In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore. Trench.

In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly. Took counsel from his guiding eyes To make this wisdom earthly wise. Emerson.

water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.

The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.

One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.

ck keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. Jowett (Thucyd. )

er answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation]. Bentley. He . . . took exception to the place of their burial. Bacon. She takes exceptions at your person. Shak. Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the p…

against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland. Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. Sharp.

To denote; to designate. Moses and Aaron took these men, which are expressed by their names. Num. i. 17.

anion; -- often used of a wife. [Obs.] [Written also fear and feere.] Chaucer. And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere. Spenser. In fere, together; in company. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A machine for forming threads. [Obs.] W. Tooke.

Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.

onversation. A cold-looking, formal garden, cut into angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Hawthorne.

thesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principl…

Furs, in general. Tooke.

Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily. What is't that you took up so gingerly Shak.

r; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

om the ram that bore Phryxus through the air to Colchis, and in quest of which Jason undertook the Argonautic expedition. (b) (Her.) An order of knighthood instituted in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; -- called also Toison d'Or. -- Golden grease, a bribe; a fee. [Slang] -- Golden hair (Bot.), a South Afric…