Chapter 210

take one's rank:order 58 V.take one's revenge:revenge 919 V.take one's stand upon:Pretext 617 V.affirmation 535 V.reasoning 476 V.take one's stand:dueness 924 V.resistance 719 V.resolution 604 V.take one's time:slowness 275 V.lateness 133 V.leisure 685 V.inactivity 683 V.take one's word for:belief 484 V.take oneself off:departure 293 V.take open order:expansion 194 V.take orders:churchdom 995 V.clergy 996 V.take out:extraction 301 V.obliteration 552 V.take pains:exertion 686 V.take part in:cooperation 709 V.take part with:cooperation 709 V.take pattern by:imitation 19 V.take pen in hand:writing 590 V.take pity:pity 914 V.take place:eventuality 151 V.take pleasure:pleasure 827 V.take possession of:taking 789 V.take possession:acquisition 775 V.take precautions:preparation 673 V.safety 664 V.take precedence:repute 873 V.precession 280 V.precedence 62 V.superiority 33 V.take prisoner:taking 789 V.restraint 751 V.prisoner 754 V.take refuge:refuge 666 V.take root:location 184 V.habit 613 V.influence 175 V.stability 150 V.take shame to oneself:humility 879 V.take shelter:safety 664 V.take ship:navigation 267 V.departure 293 V.take side with:cooperation 709 V.take silk:lawyer 968 V.take snuff:pungency 392 V.take soundings:depth 208 V.take steps:conduct 692 V.action 680 V.preparation 673 V.plan 626 V.take stock of:attention 457 V.take stock:numeration 85 V.accounts 811 V.take tea:food 298 V.take the air line:direction 278 V.take the air:journey 266 V.take the appearance of:appearance 448 V.take the average:mean 29 V.take the back track:regression 283 V.take the chair:direction 693 V.take the consequences:effect 154 V.take the direction:direction 693 V.take the field:warfare 722 V.take the first step:beginning 66 V.take the helm:direction 693 V.take the initiative:beginning 66 V.take the law of:lawsuit 969 V.take the lead:importance 642 V.direction 693 V.precession 280 V.influence 175 V.beginning 66 V.authority 737 V.precedence 62 V.take the mean:compromise 774 V.take the name of:nomenclature 564 V.take the offensive:attack 716 V.take the part of:cooperation 709 V.take the place of:substitution 147 V.take the pledge:sobriety 958 V.temperance 953 V.take the pulse:experiment 463 V.take the reins:government 737a V.direction 693 V.take the sacrament:rite 998 V.take the semblance of:appearance 448 V.take the shine out of:disrepute 874 V.superiority 33 V.take the tonsure:churchdom 995 V.take the veil:churchdom 995 V.seclusion, exclusion 893 V.take the wall of:repute 873 V.take the wall:pride 878 V.take things as they come:inexcitability 826 V.inactivity 683 V.take things easily:inexcitability 826 V.take time by the forelock:occasion 134 V.earliness 132 V.take time in:inactivity 683 V.take time:time 106 V.inaction 681 V.lateness 133 V.take to blame:accusation 938 V.take to drinking:drunkenness 959 V.take to flight:avoidance 623 V.take to heart:discontent 832 V.dejection 837 V.pain 828 V.sensibility 822 V.resentment 900 V.take to one's heels:avoidance 623 V.take to oneself a wife:marriage 903 V.take to pieces:disjunction 44 V.inaction 681 V.take to task:disapprobation 932 V.accusation 938 V.take to the law:lawyer 968 V.take to:pursuit 622 V.pleasure 827 V.habit 613 V.desire 865 V.love 897 V.take trouble:exertion 686 V.take umbrage:resentment 900 V.enmity 889 V.take up a case:reasoning 476 V.take up a loose thread:safety 664 V.take up a side:reasoning 476 V.take up a subject:dissertation 595 V.take up an inquiry:inquiry 461 V.take up arms:warfare 722 V.take up money:borrowing 788 V.take up one's abode:stability 150 V.location 184 V.presence 186 V.abode 189 V.take up one's quarters:location 184 V.take up the cause of:aid 707 V.take up the cudgels for:aid 707 V.take up the cudgels:contention 720 V.warfare 722 V.attack 716 V.take up the gauntlet:contention 720 V.take up the glove:contention 720 V.take up the pen:writing 590 V.take up time:time 106 V.take up with:content 831 V.inexcitability 826 V.use 677 V.take up:disapprobation 932 V.undertaking 676 V.pursuit 622 V.choice 609 V.elevation 307 V.restraint 751 V.take upon one's shoulders:undertaking 676 V.take upon oneself:will 600 V.resolution 604 V.intention 620 V.undertaking 676 V.duty 926 V.promise 768 V.take vows:churchdom 995 V.take warning:warning 668 V.take wing:journey 266 V.navigation 267 V.departure 293 V.take:receipt 810 V.intelligibility 518 V.belief 484 V.success 731 V.pleasurableness 829 V.knowledge 490 V.taking 789 V.taking 789 N.borrowing 788 V.receiving 785 V.acquisition 775 V.food 298 V.take-home lesson:teaching 537 N.taken ill:disease 655 Adj.taken off:death 360 Adj.taken up with:attention 457 Adj.taken with:love 897 Adj.take-off point:departure 293 N.take-off:imitation 19 N.misrepresentation 555 N.taker:taking 789 N.taking care:care 459 Adj.taking it for all in all:mean 29 Adv.taking off:divestment 226 N.taking on:discontent 832 N.taking one with another:mean 29 Adv.taking:taking 789 N.resentment 900 N.pain 828 N.taking 789 Adj.insalubrity 657 Adj.pleasurableness 829 Adj.talapoin:clergy 996 N.talbotype:painting 556 N.tale:numeration 85 N.description 594 N.talebearer:news 532 N.talent:intelligence, wisdom 498 N.skill 698 N.talented:skill 698 Adj.talents:skill 698 N.talesman:judge 967 N.talionic:retaliation 718 Adj.taliped:distortion 243 Adj.talipedic:distortion 243 Adj.talipes:distortion 243 N.talisman:scepter 747 N.spell 993 N.talismanic:sorcery 992 Adj.talk against time:diuturnity 110 V.inaction 681 V.time 106 V.talk at random:loquacity 584 V.exaggeration 549 V.intuition 477 V.talk big:boasting 884 V.insolence 885 V.threat 909 V.talk glibly:loquacity 584 V.talk it over:conversation 588 V.talk nonsense:imbecility folly 499 V.absurdity 497 V.loquacity 584 V.talk of the town:repute 873 N.conversation 588 N.talk of the village:conversation 588 N.talk of:publication 531 V.intention 620 V.talk oneself hoarse:loquacity 584 V.talk over:motive 615 V.talk shop:vulgarity 851 V.talk to in private:allocution 586 V.talk to oneself:soliloquy 589 V.talk together:conversation 588 V.speech 582 V.talk with one in private:conversation 588 V.talk:conversation 588 N.speech 582 V.speech 582 N.news 532 N.talkative:speech 582 Adj.loquacity 584 Adj.talkativeness:loquacity 584 N.talked of:repute 873 Adj.talker:loquacity 584 N.tall as a maypole:height 206 Adj.tall as a poplar:height 206 Adj.tall as a steeple:height 206 Adj.Tall poppy syndrome:conformity 82 Phr.tall talk:boasting 884 N.tall:height 206 Adj.tallage:price 812 N.tallies:numeration 85 N.tallness:height 206 N.tallow:oil 356 N.tallow-faced:achromatism 429 Adj.tally with:conformity 82 V.tally:credit 805 N.indication 550 N.list 86 N.numeration 85 V.agreement 23 V.list 86 V.tallyho!:pursuit 622 Int.tallyman:merchant 797 N.talma jacket:clothing 225 N.Talmud:Judeo-christian revelation 985 N.talons:retention 781 N.authority 737 N.talus slope:pulverulence 330 N.talus:obliquity 217 N.tamasha:sociality 892 N.tamborine:musical instruments 417 N.tambour:musical instruments 417 N.tambourine:musical instruments 417 N.tame:feebleness 575 Adj.moderation 174 Adj.inexcitability 826 Adj.insensibility 823 Adj.subjection 749 V.husbandry 370 V.physical inertness 172 Adj.moderation 174 V.husbandry 370 Adj.teaching 537 V.tameless:violence 173 Adj.malevolence 907 Adj.taming:husbandry 370 N.Tammany:party 712 N.tam-o-shanter:clothing 225 N.tamper with:change 140 V.motive 615 V.deterioration 659 Adj.activity 682 V.tampering with:activity 682 N.tam-tam:musical instruments 417 N.tan:brown 433 Adj.brown 433 V.tandem:length 200 Adv.vehicle 272 N.tang:taste 390 N.bane 663 N.tangent:contiguity 199 N.tangential:contiguity 199 Adj.tangible:materiality 316 Adj.touch 379 Adj.truth 494 Adj.sufficiency 639 Adj.utility 644 Adj.substantiality 3 Adj.tangle:derangement 61 V.crossing 219 V.tangled skein:complexity 59a N.tangled:complexity 59a Adj.tango:amusement 840 N.tank:store 636 N.tankard:receptacle 191 N.tanned:brown 433 Adj.tantalization:motive 615 N.tantalize:desire 865 V.disappointment 509 V.motive 615 V.tantalizing:excitation 824 Adj.desire 865 Adj.tantamount:equality 27 Adj.meaning 516 Adj.tantara:roll 407 N.tantivy:velocity 274 Adv.Tantra:pseudo-revelation 986 N.tantrums:resentment 900 N.tap dancer:amusement 840 N.tap:impulse 276 V.snap 406 V.egress 295 N.impulse 276 N.stopper 263 N.opening 260 V.opening 260 N.ejection 297 V.tape recording:record 551 N.tape:filament 205 N.taper to a point:sharpness 253 V.taper:narrowness, thinness 203 V.narrowness, thinness 203 Adj.luminary 423 N.tapering:narrowness, thinness 203 N.sharpness 253 Adj.tapestry:painting 556 N.ornament 847 N.tapping:ejection 297 N.tap-root:cause 153 N.tar and feather:punishment 972 V.disrespect 929 V.tar shale:fuel 388 N.tar:calefaction 384 N.resin 356a N.covering 223 V.mariner 269 N.taradiddle:untruth 546 N.tarantella:amusement 840 N.tarboosh:clothing 225 N.tardigrade:slowness 275 Adj.animal 366 N.tardiloquence:stammering 583 N.tardiness:lateness 133 N.tardy:lateness 133 Adj.slowness 275 Adj.tare and tret:discount 813 N.tares:inutility 645 N.target:intention 620 N.tariff:price 812 N.tarn:gulf, lake 343 N.tarnish:disrepute 874 V.achromatism 429 V.uncleanness 653 V.blemish 848 N.disrepute 874 N.tarpaulin:covering 223 N.tarry for:expectation 507 V.tarry:diuturnity 110 V.lateness 133 V.permanence 141 V.quiescence 265 V.resin 356a Adj.tart:sweetness 396 N.sourness 397 Adj.tartan:variegation 440 N.tartane:ship 273 N.tartar emetic:bane 663 N.tartar:uncleanness 653 N.irascibility 901 N.Tartaran:malevolence 907 Adj.Tartarus:hell 982 N.tartness:discourtesy 895 N.irascibility 901 N.Tartufe:impiety 988 N.deceiver 548 N.tartuffish:falsehood 544 Adj.task force:assemblage 72 N.task of Sisyphus:difficulty 704 N.task the memory:memory 505 V.task:fatigue 688 V.use 677 V.business 625 N.teaching 537 N.command 741 V.taskmaster:director 694 N.tassel:ornament 847 N.taste:pulpiness 354 N.taste 850 N.feeling 821 V.taste 390 N.taste 390 V.discrimination 465 N.tasteful:taste 850 Adj.tasteless:insipidity 391 Adj.tastelessness:insipidity 391 N.tasting:taste 390 N.tasty morsel:savoriness 394 N.tasty:savoriness 394 Adj.taste 850 Adj.tat:junction 43 V.crossing 219 V.tatter:smallness 32 N.tatterdemalion:commonality 876 N.tatters:clothing 225 N.Tattersall's:mart 799 N.tattle:conversation 588 N.conversation 588 V.disclosure 529 V.tattler:news 532 N.conversation 588 N.tattletale:disclosure 529 N.tattoo:roll 407 N.variegation 440 V.command 741 N.taught:junction 43 Adj.teaching 537 Adj.excitation 824 Adj.taunt with:accusation 938 V.taunt:disapprobation 932 N.disrespect 929 N.ridicule 856 V.disapprobation 932 V.disrespect 929 V.tauromachy:contention 720 N.taut:junction 43 Adj.tautology:identity 13 N.


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