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The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day. Dryden.

or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration. Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his [Aaron's] head and anoint him. Exod. xxix. 7. Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. 1 Kings xix. 15. The Lord's Anointed, Christ or the Messiah; also, a Jewish or other king by "divine r…

A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidæ. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

e action. Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take. Shak.

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.

In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

ay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.

s; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively. I applied myself to him for help. Johnson.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

To take approaches to.

To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. [Obs.] And make him with our pikes and partisans A grave: come, arm him. Shak. Arm your prize; I know you will not lose him. Two N. Kins.