To change; to transform; as, to turn evil to good; to turn goods into money.
10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve. 11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his day’s his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.
17Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. 18For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzlean ox while it is treading out the grain,”and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”19Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.… to put a muzzle on (an animal or its mouth) so as to prevent biting, eating, etc.to restrain from speech, the expression of opinion, etc.: The censors muzzled the press. Nautical. to attach the cable to the stock of (an anchor) by means of a light line to permit the anchor to be pulled loose readily.1 Timothy 5:18“For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle The mouth of a thing; the extreme or end for entrance or discharge; applied chiefly to the end of a tube, as the open end of a common fusee or pistol,or of a bellows.A fastening for the mouth which hinders from biting.With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound.
MUZ'ZLE, v.t. To bind the mouth; to fasten the mouth to prevent biting or eating.Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deut.25.To fondle with the mouth close. Low.To restrain from hurt.My dagger muzzled--
MUZ'ZLE, v.i. To bring the mouth near.The bear muzzles and smells to him. Deuteronomy 25:4 as a law to insure that an ox being made to work a field would be allowed to freely eat of that field that he might keep his strength up and be rewarded for his labor.
- "Rev 19: 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God."An example of this would be the King James Bible, an old English Translation, where it says in 1 Corinthians 9:9 “…Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.""out OUT, adv.Without; on the outside; not within; on the exterior or beyond the limits of any inclosed place or given line; opposed to in or within; as, to go out and come in; to rush out.Abroad; not at home. The master of the house is out; a colloquial phrase for gone out. In a state of disclosure or discovery. The secret is out, that is, has come out, is disclosed. We shall find out the rogue.Not concealed.When these are gone, the woman will be out.In a state of extinction. The candle or the fire is out.In a state of being exhausted. The wine is out.In a state of destitution. We are out of bread corn.Not in office or employment. I care not who is in or who is out. He is out of business.Abroad or from home, in a party, at church, in a parade, &c. He was not out today. The militia companies are out. The man was out in a frolic last night.To the end.Hear me out.Loudly; without restraint; as, to laugh out.Not in the hands of the owner. The land is out upon a lease.In an error.As a musician that will always play, and yet ialways out at the same note.At a loss; in a puzzle.have forgot my part, and I am out.15. Uncovered; with clothes torn; as, to be out at the knees or elbows. Away, so as to consume; as, to sleep out the best time in the morning.17. Deficient; having expended. He was out of pocket. He was out fifty pounds.18. It is used as an exclamation with the force of command, away; begone; as, out with the dog.Out upon you, out upon it, expressions of dislike or contempt.Out is much used as a modifier of verbs; as, to come out, to go out, to lead out, to run out, to leak out, to creep out, to flow out, to pass out, to look out, to burn out, to cut out, to saw out, to grow out, to spin out, to write out, to boil out, to beat out, &c. bearing the sense of issuing, extending, drawing from, separating, bringing to open view, or in short, the passing of a limit that incloses or restrains; or bearing the metaphorical sense of vanishing, coming to an end.Out of. In this connection, out may be considered as adverb, and of as a preposition. Proceeding from; as produce. Plants grow out of the earth. He paid me out of his own funds.Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Prov. 4.Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. James 3.From or proceeding from a place, or the interior of a place; as, to take any thing out of the house. Mark 13.Beyond; as out of the power of fortune.They were astonished out of measure. Mark 10.From, noting taking or derivation.To whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets. Acts 28.Not in, noting extraordinary exertion.Be instant in season, out of season. 2Tim. 4.Not in, noting exclusion, dismission, departure, absence or dereliction; as out of favor; out of use; out of place; out of fashion.Not in, noting unfitness or impropriety. He is witty out of season. The seed was sown out of season.Not within, noting extraordinary delay; as, a ship is out of time.Not within; abroad; as out of the door or house. From, noting copy from an original; as, to cite or copy out of Horace.From, noting rescue or liberation; as, to be delivered out of afflictions.Christianity recovered the law of nature out of all those errors.Not in, noting deviation, exorbitance or irregularity. This is out of all method; out of all rule. He goes out of his way to find cause of censure. He is out of order.From, noting dereliction or departure. He will not be flattered or frightened out of his duty. He attempted to laugh men out of virtue.From, noting loss or change of state. The mouth is out of taste; the instrument is out of tune.Not according to, noting deviation; as, he acts or speaks out of character.Beyond; not within the limits of; as, to be out of hearing, out of sight, out of reach. Time out of mind, is time beyond the reach of memory.Noting loss or exhaustion, as, to be out of breath.Noting loss; as out of hope.By means of.Out of that will I cause those of Cyprus to mutiny.In consequence of, noting the motive, source or reason.What they do not grant out of the generosity of their nature, they may grant out of mere impatience.So we say, a thing is done out of envy, spite or ambition.Out of hand, immediately, as that is easily used which is ready in the hand.Gather we our forces out of hand.Out of print, denotes that a book is not in market, or to be purchased; the copies printed having been all sold.
OUT, v.t To eject; to expel; to deprive by expulsion.The French having been outed of their holds.In composition, out signifies beyond, more, ejection or extension.For the participles of the following compounds, see the simple verbs.
- the corn.
- And, The labourer isworthy of his reward.”
1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?”
n the place of the other. When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway of battle.
To bring the inside out
as,to turn a coat. or direction of the look.
torneare, tornire, to turn, to fence round, to tilt; torniamento, tournament.
1. To cause to move in a circular course; as, to turn a wheel; to turn a spindle;
to put the upper side
downwards, or one side i
4.
6.
The monarch turns him to his royal guest.
7. To form on a lathe; to make round.
8. To form; to shape; used in the participle; as a body finely turned.
Him limbs how turn'd.
9.
Impatience turns an ague into a fever.
of Ahithophel into foolishness. 2 Sam.15.
10. To; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect.
11, as color; as, to turn green to blue.
12. Tvary.
13. To translate; as, to turn Greek into English.
--Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown.
14. To change, as the manner of writing; as,to turn prose into verse.
15. To change, as from one opinion or party to another; as, to; to turn Mohammedan or a
16. To change in regard to inclination or temper.
Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me. Ps.25.
17.
18. To transfer.
Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David. 1 Chron 10.
19. To cause to nauseate or lothe; as, to turn the stomach.
20. To make giddy.
Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
2. To comprehend; to hold within specified limits.
25. To bend from a perpendicular direction; as, to turn the edge of an instrument.
26. To move from a direct course or strait line; to cause to deviate; as, to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course.
27. To apply by a change of use.
When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle.
28. To reverse.
29. To keep passing and changing in the course of trade; as, to turn money or stock two or three times in the year.
He was perfectly well turned for trade.
31. To make acid; to sour; as, to turn cider or wine; to turn milk.
32. To persuade to renounce an opinion; to dissuade from a purpose, or cause to change sides. You cannot turn a firm man.
To turn aside, to avert.
To turn away, to dismiss from service; to discard; as, to turn away a servant.
1. To avert; as, to turn away wrath or evil.
To turn back, to return; as, to turn back goods to the seller. Little used.
To turn down, to fold or double down.
To turn in, to fold or double; as, to turn in the edge of cloth.
To turn off, to dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or parasite.
1. To give over; to resign. We are not so wholly turned off from that reversion.
2. To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects.
To be turned of, to be advanced beyond; as, to be turned of sixty six.
To turn out, to drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors, or out of the house.
1. To put to pasture; as cattle or horses.
To turn over, to change sides; to roll over.
1. To transfer; as, to turn over a business to another hand.
2. To open and examine one leaf after another; as, to turn over a concordance.
3. To overset.
turn to, to have recourse to.
Helvetius' tables may be turned to on all occasions.
To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself.
To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. Ex.23.
To turn the back upon, to quit with contempt; to forsake.
To turn the die or dice, to change fortune.
TURN, v.i. To move round; to have a circular motion; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
1. To be directed.
The understanding turns inwards on itself, and reflects on its own operations.
2. To show regard by directing the look towards any thing.
Turn mighty monarch, turn this way;
Do not refuse to hear.
3. To move the body round. He turned to me with a smile.
4. be at rest; do not turn in the least.
5. To deviate; as, to turn from the road or course.
6., wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another.
7. To become by change; as, the fur of certain animals turns in winter.
Cygnets from gray turn white.
8. To change sides. A man in a fever turns often.
9. To change opinions or parties; as, to turn Christian or Mohammedan.
10. To change the mind or conduct.
Turn from thy fierce wrath. Ex.32.
11. To change to acid; as,mild turns suddenly during a thunder storm.
12. To be brought eventually; to result or terminate in. This trade has not turned to much account or advantage. The application of steam turns to good account, both on land and water.
13. To depend on for decision. The question turns on a single fact or point.
14. To become giddy.
I'll look no more,
Lest my brain turn.
15. To change a course of life; to repent.
Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die? Ezek. 33.
16. To change the course or direction; as, the tide turns.
To turn about, to move the face to another quarter.
To turn away, to deviate.
1. To depart from; to forsake.turn in, to bend inwards.
1. To enter for lodgings or entertainment. Gen.19.
2. To go to bed.
To turn off, to be diverted; to deviate from a course. The road turns off to the left.
To turn on or upon, to reply or retort.
1. To depend on.
To turn out, to move from its place, as a bone.
1. To bend outwards; to project.
2. To rise from bed; also, to come abroad.
To turn over, to turn from side to side; to roll; to tumble.
1. To change sides or parties.
To turn to, to be directed; as, the needle turns to the magnetic pole.
To turn under, to bend or be folded downwards.
To turn up, to bend or be doubled upwards.
TURN, n. The act of turning; movement or motion in a circular direction, whether horizontally, vertically or otherwise; a revolution; as the turn of a wheel.
1. A winding; a meandering course; a bend or bending; as the turn of river.
2. A walk to and from.
I will take a turn in your garden.
3. Change; alteration; vicissitude; as the turns and varieties of passions.
Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.
4. Successive course.
Nobleness and bounty--which virtues had their turns in the king's nature.
5. Manner of proceeding;. This affair may take a different turn from that which we expect.
6. Chance; hap; opportunity.
Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
7. Occasion; incidental opportunity.
An old dog falling from his speed, was loaded at every turn with blows and reproaches.
8. Time at which, by successive vicissitudes, any thing is to be had or done. They take each other's turn.
His turn will come to laugh at you again.
9. Action of kindness or malice.
Thanks are half lost when good turns are delay'd.
Some malicious natures place their delight in doing ill turns.
10. Reigning inclination or course. Religion is not to be adapted to the turn and fashion of the age.
11. A step off the ladder at the gallows.
12. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
13. Form; cast; shape; manner; in a literal or figurative sense; as the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
The turn of his thoughts and expression is unharmonious.
Female virtues are of a domestic turn.
The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.
14. Manner of arranging words in a sentence.
15. Change; new position of things. Some evil happens at every turn of affairs.
16. Change of direction; as the turn of the tide from flood to ebb.
17. One round of a rope or cord.
18. In mining, a pit sunk in some part of a drift.
19. Turn or tourn, in law. The sheriff's turn is a court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. England.
By turns, one after another; alternately.
They assist each other by turns.
1. At intervals.
They feel by turns the bitter change.
To take turns, to take each other's places alternately.
1. That which is formed by design, or invented; scheme; artificial contrivance; stratagem; project; sometimes in a good sense; more generally in a bad sense, as artifices are usually employed for bad purposes.
In a good sense:
His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. Jeremiah 51.
In a bad sense:
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5.
They imagined a mischievous device. Psalm 212.
2. An emblem intended to represent a family, person, action or quality, with a suitable motto; used in painting, sculpture and heraldry. It consists in a metaphorical similitude between the things representing and represented, as the figure of a plow representing agriculture.
Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields.
3. Invention; genius; faculty of devising; as a man of noble device.
4. A spectacle or show.
1 Kings 8.
3. To comprehend; to comprise. The history of Livy contains a hundred and forty books.
4. To hold within limits prescribed; to restrain; to withhold from trespass or disorder.
The Kings person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
Fear not, my Lord, we can contain ourselves.
5. To include. This article is not contained in the account. This number does not contain the article specified.
6. To inclose; as, this cover or envelop contains a letter.
CONTAIN, v.i. To live in continence or chastity. Arbuthnot and Pope. 1 Corinthians 7.
That finer matter called sand, is no other than very small pebbles.
2. Sands, in the plural, tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; as the Lybian sands.
SAND, v.t.
1. To sprinkle with sand. It is customary among the common people in America, to sand their floors with white sand.
2. To drive upon the sand.
it to be so. It seems also to be allied to Sax.teogan, to draw, to tug, L. duco; for we say, to take a likeness, and to draw a likeness. We use taking also for engaging, attracting. We say, a child takes to his mother or nurse, and a man takes to drink; which seem to include attaching and holding. We observe that take and teach are radically the same word.
1. In a general sense, to get hold or gain possession of a thing in almost any manner, either by receiving it when offered, or by using exertion to obtain it. Take differs from seize, as it does not always imply haste, force or violence. It more generally denotes to gain or receive into possession in a peaceable manner, either passively or by active exertions. Thus,
2. To receive what is offered.
Then I took the cup at the Lord's hand. Jer.25.
3. To lay hold of; to get into one's power for keeping.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut.24.
4. To receive with a certain affection of mind. He takes it in good part; or he takes it very ill.
5. To catch by surprise or artifice; to circumvent.
Men in their loose unguarded hours they take,
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
6. To seize; to make prisoner. The troops entered, slew and took three hundred janizaries.
This man was taken of the Jews. Acts.23.
7. To captivate with pleasure; to engage the affections; to delight.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Prov.6.
Cleombrotus was to taken with this prospect, that he had no patience.
8. To get into one's power by engines or nets; to entrap; to ensnare; as, to take foxes with traps; to take fishes with nets, or with hook and line.
9. To understand in a particular sense; to receive as meaning. I take your meaning.
You take me right.
Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the sincere love to God and our neighbor.
10. To exact and receive.
Take no usury of him or increase. Lev.25.
11. To employ; to occupy. The prudent man always takes time for deliberation, before he passes judgment.
12. To agree to; to close in with; to comply with.
I take thee at thy word.
13. To form and adopt; as, to take a resolution.
14. To catch; to embrace; to seize; as, to take one by the hand; to take in the arms.
15. To admit; to receive as an impression; to suffer; as, to take a form or shape.
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command;
Now take the mold--
16. To obtain by active exertion; as, to take revenge or satisfaction for an injury.
17. To receive; to receive into the mind.
They took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. Acts.4.
It appeared in his face that he took great contentment in this our question.
18. To swallow, as meat or drink; as, to take food; to take a glass of wine.
19. To swallow, as medicine; as, to take pills; to take stimulants.
20. To choose; to elect. Take which you please. But the sense of choosing, in this phrase, is derived from the connection of take with please. So we say, take your choice.
21. To copy.
Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
22. To fasten on; to seize. The frost has taken the corn; the worms have taken the vines.
Wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him, and he foameth-- Mark 9.
23. To accept; not to refuse. He offered me a fee, but I would not take it.
Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. Num.35.
24. To adopt.
I will take you to me for a people. Ex.6.
25. To admit.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Tim 5.
26. To receive, as any temper or disposition of mind; as, to take shame to one's self; to take delight; to take pride or pleasure.
27. To endure; to bear without resentment; or to submit to without attempting to obtain satisfaction. He will take an affront from no man. Cannot you take a jest?
28. To draw; to deduce.
The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery.
29. To assume; as, I take the liberty to say.
30. To allow; to admit; to receive as true, or not disputed; as, to take a thing for granted.
31. To suppose; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand. This I take to be the man's motive.
He took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in disguise.
You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
32. To seize; to invade; as, to be taken with a fever.
33. To have recourse to; as, the sparrow takes a bush; the cat takes a tree. In this sense, we usually say, the bird takes to a bush, the squirrel takes to a tree.
34. To receive into the mind.
Those do best, who take material hints to be judged by history.
35. To hire; to rent; to obtain possession on lease; as, to take a house or farm for a year.
36. To admit in copulation.
37. To draw; to copy; to paint a likeness; as a likeness taken by Reynolds.
38. To conquer and cause to surrender; to gain possession of by force or capitulation; as, to take an army, a city or a ship.
39. To be discovered or detected. He was taken in the very act.
40. To require or be necessary. It takes so much cloth to make a coat.
To take away, to deprive of; to bereave; as a bill for taking away the votes of bishops.
By your own law I take your life away.
1. To remove; as, to take away the consciousness of pleasure.
To take care, to be careful; to be solicitous for.
Doth God take care for oxen? 1 Cor.9.
1. To be cautious or vigilant.
To take care of, to superintend or oversee; to have the charge of keeping or securing.
To take a course, to resort to; to have recourse to measures.
The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying of sinners.
To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice.
To take down, to reduce; to bring lower; to depress; as, to take down pride, or the proud.
1. To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
2. To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold.
3. To write; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them.
To take from, to deprive of.
I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee. 1 Sam.17.
1. To deduct; to subtract; as, to take one number from another.
2. To detract; to derogate.
To take heed, to be careful or cautious.
Take heed what doom against yourself you give.
To take heed to, to attend to with care. Take heed to thy ways.
To take hold, to seize; to fix on.take in, to inclose; to fence.
1. To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
2. To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail.
3. To cheat; to circumvent; to gull. Not elegant.
4. To admit; to receive; as, a vessel will take in more water. The landlord said he could take in no more lodgers.
5. To win by conquest. Not in use.
6. To receive into the mind or understanding.
Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions.
To take in hand, to undertake; to attempt to execute any thing. Luke 1.
To take notice, to observe; or to observe with particular attention.
1. To show by some act that observation is made; to make remark upon. He heard what was said, but took no notice of it.
To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner.
To take off, to remove, in various ways; to remove from the top of any thing; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat, &c.
1. To cut off; as, to take off the head or a limb.
2. To destroy; as, to take off life.
3. To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument.
4. To withdraw; to call or draw away.
Keep foreign ideas from taking off the mind from its present pursuit.
5. To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
6. To purchase; to take from in trade.
The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off--
7. To copy.
Take off all their models in wood.
8. To imitate; to mimic.
9. To find place for; as more scholars than preferments can take off.
To take off from, to lessen; to remove in part. This takes off from the deformity of vice.
To take order with, to check. Not much used.
To take out, to remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
1. To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth; to take out an unpleasant taste from wine.
To take part, to share. Take part in our rejoicing.
To take part with, to unite with; to join with.
To take place, to happen; to come, or come to pass.
1. To have effect; to prevail.
Where arms take place, all other pleas are vain.
To have effect; to prevail.
Where arms take place, all other pleas are vain.
To take effect, to have the intended effect; to be efficacious.
To take root, to live and grow; as a plant.
1. To be established; as principles.
To take up, to lift; to raise.
1. To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank.
2. To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. 19.
3. In surgery, to fasten with a ligature.
4. To engross; to employ; to engage the attention; as, to take up the time.
5. To have final recourse to.
Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts took up their rest in the christian religion.
6. To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds.
7. To admit.
The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
8. To answer by reproof; to reprimand.
One of his relations took him up roundly.
9. To begin where another left off.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale.
10. To occupy; to fill; as, to take up a great deal of room.
11. To assume; to carry on or manage for another; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors.
12. To comprise; to include.
The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite--takes up seven years.
13. To adopt; to assume; as, to take up current opinions.
They take up our old trade of conquering.
14. To collect; to exact a tax.
15. To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
To take up arms,
To take arms, To begin war; to begin resistance by force.
To take upon, to assume; to undertake. He takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof.
1. To appropriate to; to admit to be imputed to; as, to take upon one's self a punishment.
take side, to join one of two differing parties; to take an interest in one party.
To take to heart, to be sensibly affected by; to feel any thing sensibly.
To take advantage of, to catch by surprise; or to make use of a favorable state of things to the prejudice of another.
To take the advantage of, to use any advantage offered.
To take air, to be divulged or made public; to be disclosed; as a secret.
To take the air, to expose one's self to the open air.
To take a course, to begin a certain direction or way of proceeding.
To take leave, to bid adieu or farewell.
To take breath, to rest; to be recruited or refreshed.
To take aim, to direct the eye or a weapon to a particular object.
To take along, to carry, lead or convey.
To take a way, to begin a particular course or direction.
TAKE, v.i. To move or direct the course; to resort to, or to attach one's self; to betake one's self. The fox being hard pressed took to the hedge. My friend has left his music and taken to books.
The defluxion taking to his breast, wasted his lungs.
1. To please; to gain reception. The play will not take, unless it is set off with proper scenes.
Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake,
And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
2. To have the intended or natural effect.
In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh.
3. To catch; to fix, or be fixed. He was inoculated, but the infection did not take.
When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
To take after, to learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern.
1. To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.
To take in with, to resort to.
To take for, to mistake; to suppose or think one thing to be another.
The lord of the land took us for spies. Gen.42.
take on, to be violently affected; as, the child takes on at a great rate.
1. To claim, as a character.
I take not on me here as a physician.
To take to, to apply to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to books; to take to evil practices.
1. To resort to; to betake to.
Men of learning who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world.
To take up, to stop.
Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of all religion. Not in use.
1. To reform. Not in use.
To take up with, to be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; as, to take up with plain fare.
In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities.
1. To lodge; to dwell. Not in use.
To take witan hour
HOUR, n. our. L. hora; also L. tempestivus, from tempus. See Time. But hour, hora, afterward came to signify a certain portion or division of the day. This has been different in different nations.
1. A space of time equal to one twenty fourth part of the natural day, or duration of the diurnal revolution of the earth. An hour answers to fifteen degrees of the equator. It consists of 60 minutes, each minute of 60 seconds, &c.
2. Time; a particular time; as the hour of death.
Jesus saith, woman,my hour is not yet come. John.2.
3. The time marked or indicated by a chronometer, clock or watch; the particular time of the day. What is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? I will be with you at an early hour.
Good hour, signifies early or seasonably.
You have arrived at a good hour.
To keep good hours, to be at home in good season; not to be abroad late, or at the usual hours of retiring to rest.Hours, in the plural, certain prayers in the Romish church, to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
to pass
P`ASS, v.i. Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass, a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; L. patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with L. passus, a step, and this is from pando, L. passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.
1. To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another. A man may pass on foot, on horseback or in a carriage; a bird and a meteor pass through the air; a ship passes on or through the water; light passes from the sun to the planets; it passes from the sun to the earth in about eight minutes.
2. To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.
3. To vanish; to disappear; to be lost. In this sense, we usually say, to pass away.
Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
4. To be spent; to go on or away progressively.
The time when the thing existed, is the idea of that space of duration which passed between some fixed period and the being of that thing.
5. To die; to depart from life. Little used.
6. To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.
7. To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.
Neither of these bills has yet passed the house of commons.
8. To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received. Bank bills pass as a substitute for coin.
False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.
9. To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.
This will not pass for a fault in him, till it is proved to be one in us.
10. To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.
11. To be done.
Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to defile them.
12. To determine; to give judgment or sentence.
Though well we may not pass upon his life.
13. To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.
14. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected. We saw the act, but let it pass.
15. To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass, not be converted into ailment.
16. To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.
17. To be in a tolerable state.
A middling sort of man was left well enough by his father to pass,but he could never think he had enough, so long as any had more.
18. To be transferred from one owner to another. The land article passed by livery and seizin.
19. To go beyond bounds. For this we generally use surpass.
20. To run or extend; as a line or other thing. The north limit of Massachusetts passes three miles north of the Merrimac.
To come to pass, to happen; to arrive; to come; to be; to exist; a phrase much used in the Scriptures.
To pass away, to move from sight; to vanish.
1. To be spent; to be lost.
A good part of their lives passes away without thinking.
To pass by, to move near and beyond. He passed by as we stood in the road.
To pass on, to proceed.
To pass over, to go or move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over to the other side.
To pass into, to unite and blend, as two substances or colors, in such a manner that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.
P`ASS, v.t. To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.
1. To go through or over; as, to pass a river.
2. To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.
3. To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.
4. To cause to move hastily.
I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number.
5. To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.
6. To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.
7. To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.
8. To procure or cause to go.
Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
9. To put an end to.
This night
We'll pass the business privately and well.
10. To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
11. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.
12. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.
13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,
14. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.
15. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.
16. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.
17. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
18. To thrust; to make a push in fencing.
To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto.
To pass away, to spend; to waste; as, to pass away the flower of like in idleness.
To pass by, to pass near and beyond.
1. To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.
2. To neglect; to disregard.
Certain passages of Scripture we cannot pass by without injury to truth.
To pass over, to move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over a river or mountain.
1. To omit; to overlook or disregard. He passed over one charge without a reply.
P`ASS, n. A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.
1. A passage; a road.
2. Permission to pass, to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.
A gentleman had a pass to go beyond the seas.
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
3. An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.
4. In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as , to make a pass at an antagonist.
5. State; condition or extreme case; extremity.
To what a pass are our minds brought.
Matters have been brought to this pass--
from the upper situated above another part
to the lower "the lower levels of the building"
bulb.
IN'STRUMENT, n. L. instrumentum, from instruo, to prepare; that which is prepared.
1. A tool; that by which work is performed or any thing is effected; as a knife, a hammer, a saw, a plow, &c. Swords, muskets and cannon are instruments of destruction. A telescope is an astronomical instrument.
2. That which is subservient to the execution of a plan or purpose, or to the production of any effect; means used or contributing to an effect; applicable to persons or things. Bad men are often instruments of ruin to others. The distribution of the Scriptures may be the instrument of a vastly extensive reformation in morals and religion.
3. An artificial machine or body constructed for yielding harmonious sounds; as an organ, a harpsichord, a violin, or flute, &c., which are called musical instruments, or instruments of music.
4. In law, a writing containing the terms of a contract, as a deed of conveyance, a grant, a patent, an indenture, &c.; in general, a writing by which some fact is recorded for evidence, or some right conveyed.
5. A person who acts for another, or is employed by another for a special purpose, and if the purpose is dishonorable, the term implies degradati
1. That may be measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.
2. Moderate; in small quantity or extent. MEASURING, ppr. mezh'uring. Computing or ascertaining length, dimensions, capacity or amount.
1. a. A measuring cast, a throw or cast that requires to be measured, or not to be distinguished from another but by measuring.
TIME, n. L.tempus; tempora, the falls of the head, also tempest, &c. See Tempest. Time is primarily equivalent to season; to the Gr.wpa in its original sense, opportunity, occasion, a fall, an event, that which comes.
1. A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future. The time was; the time has been; the time is; the time will be.
Lost time is never found again.
God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets. Heb.1.
2. A proper time; a season.
There is a time to every purpose. Eccles.3.
The time of figs was not yet. Mark 11.
3. Duration.
The equal and uniform flux of time does not affect our senses.
Time is absolute or relative; absolute time is considered without any relation to bodies or their motions. Relative time is the sensible measure of any portion of duration, by means of motion. Thus the diurnal revolution of the sun measures a space of time or duration. Hence,
4. A space or measured portion of duration.
We were in Paris two months,and all that time enjoyed good health.
5. Life or duration, in reference to occupation. One man spends his time in idleness; another devotes all his time to useful purposes.
Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind.
6. Age; a part of duration distinct from other parts; as ancient times; modern times. The Spanish armada was defeated in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
7. Hour of travail.
She was within one month of her time.
8. Repetition; repeated performance, or mention with reference to repetition. The physician visits his patient three times in a day.
9. Repetition; doubling; addition of a number to itself; as, to double cloth four times; four times four amount to sixteen.
10. Measure of sounds in music; as common time, and treble time. In concerts,it is all important, that the performers keep time, or exact time.
11. The state of things at a particular period; as when we say, good times, or bad times, hard times,dull times for trade, &c. In this sense, the plural is generally used.
12. In grammar, tense.
In time, in good season; sufficiently early.
He arrived in time to see the exhibition.
1. A considerable space of duration; process or continuation of duration. You must wait patiently; you will in time recover your health and strength.
At times, at distinct intervals of duration. At times he reads; at other times, he rides.
The spirit began to move him at times. Judges 13.
Time enough, in season; early enough.
Stanley at Bosworth-field, came time enough to save his life.
To lose time, to delay.
1. To go too slow; as, a watch or clock loses time.
Apparent time, in astronomy, true solar time, regulated by the apparent motions of the sun.
Mean time, equated time, a mean or average of apparent time.
Siderial time, is that which is shown by the diurnal revolutions of the stars.
TIME, v.t. To adapt to the time or occasion; to bring, begin or perform at the proper season or time; as, the measure is well timed, or ill timed. No small part of political wisdom consists in knowing how to time propositions and measures.
Mercy is good, but kings mistake its timing.
1. To regulate as to time; as, he timed the stroke.
2. To measure; as in music or harmony.
consistent
CONSISTENT, a. L. See Consist.
1. Fixed; firm; not fluid; as the consistent parts of a body, distinguished from the fluid.
2. Standing together or in agreement; compatible; congruous; uniform; not contradictory or opposed; as, two opinions or schemes are consistent; let a man be consistent with himself; the law is consistent with justice and policy.
GL`ASS, n. L. glastum; glesid, blueness. Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as L. viridis, from vireo.
1. A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
In chimistry, a substance or mixture, earthy, saline or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal.
2. A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass.
3. A mirror; a looking-glass.
4. A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
5. The destined time of man's life. His glass is run.
6. The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains. Drink a glass of wine with me.
7. A vessel that shows the weight of the air.
8. A perspective glass; as an optic glass.
9. The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand. The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour. We say, a ship fought three glasses.
10. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.
GL`ASS, a. Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.
GL`ASS, v.t. To see as in a glass. Not used.
1. To case in glass. Little used.
2. To cover with glass; to glaze.
In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.
vessel
VES'SEL, n. L. vas, vasis. This word is probably the English vat.
1. A cask or utensil proper for holding liquors and other things, as a tun, a pipe, a puncheon, a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a dish, &c.
2. In anatomy, any tube or canal, in which the blood and other humors are contained, secreted or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, spermatics, &c.
3. In the physiology of plants, a canal or tube of very small bore, in which the sap is contained and conveyed; also, a bag or utricle, filled with pulp, and serving as a reservoir for sap; also, a spiral canal, usually of a larger bore, for receiving and distributing air.
4. Any building used in navigation, which carries masts and sails, from the largest ship of war down to a fishing sloop. In general however, vessel is used for the smaller ships, brigs, sloops, schooners, luggers, scows, &c.
5. Something containing.
Vessels of wrath, in Scripture, are such persons as are to receive the full effects of God's wrath and indignation, as a punishment for their sins.
Vessels of mercy, are persons who are to receive the effects of God's mercy, or future happiness and glory.
Chosen vessels, ministers of the gospel, as appointed to bear the glad news of salvation to others; called also earthen vessels, on account of their weakness and frailty.
VES'SEL, v.t. To put into a vessel. Not in use.
vessel
VES'SEL, n. L. vas, vasis. This word is probably the English vat.
1. A cask or utensil proper for holding liquors and other things, as a tun, a pipe, a puncheon, a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a dish, &c.
2. In anatomy, any tube or canal, in which the blood and other humors are contained, secreted or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, spermatics, &c.
3. In the physiology of plants, a canal or tube of very small bore, in which the sap is contained and conveyed; also, a bag or utricle, filled with pulp, and serving as a reservoir for sap; also, a spiral canal, usually of a larger bore, for receiving and distributing air.
4. Any building used in navigation, which carries masts and sails, from the largest ship of war down to a fishing sloop. In general however, vessel is used for the smaller ships, brigs, sloops, schooners, luggers, scows, &c.
5. Something containing.
Vessels of wrath, in Scripture, are such persons as are to receive the full effects of God's wrath and indignation, as a punishment for their sins.
Vessels of mercy, are persons who are to receive the effects of God's mercy, or future happiness and glory.
Chosen vessels, ministers of the gospel, as appointed to bear the glad news of salvation to others; called also earthen vessels, on account of their weakness and frailty.
VES'SEL, v.t. To put into a vessel. Not in use.
having
HAV'ING, ppr. from have. Possessing; holding in power or possession; containing; gaining; receiving; taking.
Alternatively, an hourglass may represent your feeling that time is running out. A deadline you have to meet or a sense of urgency. You or someone that may not have enough time.
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