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

One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.

One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.

One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark.

One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. Kent.

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

A person who accepts; a taker.

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.

had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

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

A hindrance or disappointment; a check. A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker. South.

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. Shak.

aud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.

The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency. J. Whitaker.

intly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

Producing pain. Whitaker.

Dull. [R.] Gataker.

sion; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partne…