Get definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary GET, v.t. pret. got. [gat, obs.] pp. got, gotten. 1 ... obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means. We get favor by kindness; we get wealth by industry and economy; we get land by purchase; we get praise by good conduct; and we get blame by ...
Go definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary GO, v.i. pret. went; pp. gone. 1. In a general ... a ball goes with velocity through the air. The mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12. 2. To walk; to move ... the feet or step by step. The child begins to go alone at a year old. You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go. 3. To walk leisurely; not to run. Thou must run ... To travel; to journey by land or water. I must go to Boston. He has gone to Philadelphia. The minister ...
... radically the same word.] 1. In a general sense, to get hold or gain possession of a thing in almost any ... s hand. Jeremiah 25. 3. To lay hold of; to get into one's power for keeping. No man shall take ... with this prospect, that he had no patience. 8. To get into one's power by engines or nets; to entrap ... 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 ...
... to every thing susceptible of motion, and is opposed to go. 2. To draw nigh; to approach; to arrive; to be ... sprout, as plants; to spring. The corn comes or comes up. In the coming or sprouting of malt, as it must ... to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us go. This is the heir; come, let us kill him. When ... thy glory. Jeremiah 48. To come for, to come to get or obtain; to come after. To come forth, to issue ... of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn: come, come up] [ant: depart, go, go away] 2: reach a destination; arrive by movement ...
... the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds. 2. To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed. 3. To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall. 4. To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, ...
... possession; as, to make sure of the game. To make up, to collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. 1. To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. 2. To repair; as, to make up a hedge. Ezek 13. 3. To supply what is wanting. A dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. 4. To compose, as ingredients or ...
... adv. To the place from which one came; as, to go back is to return. 2. In a figurative sense, to a former state, condition or station; as, he cannot go back from his engagements. 3. Behind; not advancing; not coming ... Again; in return; as, give back the money. 6. To go or come back, is to return, either to a former place, or state. 7. To go or give back, is to retreat to recede. BACK, v.t. To mount; to get upon the back; sometimes perhaps to place upon the back ... ship to move astern. BACK, v.i. To move or go back; as, the horse refuses to back. WordNet (r) ...
... begin to unload. To break a deer, to cut it up at table. To breakfast, to eat the first meal in ... out of that position,she breaks her sheer. To break up, to dissolve or put an end to; as, to break up house-keeping. 1. To open or lay open; as, to break up a bed of earth. 2. To plow ground the first ... in the U. States. 3. To separate; as, to break up a company. 4. To disband; as, to break up an army. To break upon the wheel, to stretch ...
... course. Searching the ulcer with my probe, the sinus run up above the orifice. 36. To extend; to lie in continued ... Young persons of 10 or 12 years old, soon run up to men and women. If the richness of the ground ... danger. To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Not in use.] 1. To run in with, to ... doubt she must have long ago run out. To run up, to rise; to swell; to amount. Accounts of goods credited run up very fast. RUN, v.t. 1. To drive or push ... gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its punctum saliens. 9. To push; to thrust; ...
... was pado. 1. To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another. A man may ... soon the charm will pass. 4. To be spent; to go on or away progressively. The time when the thing existed ... in fencing or fighting. 14. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected. We saw the act, but let it ... The land article passed by livery and seizin. 19. To go beyond bounds. For this we generally use surpass. 20. To ... road. To pass on, to proceed. To pass over, to go or move from side to side; to cross; as, to ... ends and the other begins. P`ASS, v.t. To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness. ...
... cannot long hold out these pangs. [Not used.] To hold up, to raise; as, hold up your head. 1. To sustain; to support. He holds himself up in virtue. 2. To retain; to withhold. 3. To offer; to exhibit. He held up to view the prospect of gain. 4. To sustain; to ... hold with, to adhere to; to side with; to stand up for.hold plow, to direct or steer a plow by ... joined; not to separate; to remain in union. To hold up, to support one's self; as, to hold up ...
... To change place or posture; to stir; to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part ... or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen ... take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" [syn: travel, go, move, locomote] [ant: stay in place] 2: cause to move ... 5: follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels" [syn: go, proceed, move] 6: be ...
Up definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary UP, adv. 1. Aloft; on high But up or down - 2. Out of bed. He is not up. 3. Having risen from a seat. Sir Roger was up. 4. From a state of concealment or discumbiture. 5. In a state of being built. Up with my tent. 6. Above the horizon. The sun ...
... 1. To rise on high; to ascend; with or without up. Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? Job 39. The fire of trees and ... be built to a great altitude. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jeremiah 51. 3. To get on horseback. 4. To leap upon any animal. 5. To ... my love so high? 1. To ascend; to climb; to get upon an elevated place; as, to mount a throne. 2 ... a support; "They mounted the aerator on a floating" 2: go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were ...
pick up definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: take and lift upward [syn: pick up, lift up, gather up] 2: take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read" 3: give a ...