[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

get \get\ ge^t, v. t. imp. got go^t obs. gat
   ga^t; p. p. got obsolescent gotten go^t"t'n;
   p. pr.  vb. n. getting. oe. geten, as. gitan, gietan in
   comp.; akin to icel. geta, goth. bigitan to find, l.
   prehendere to seize, take, gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain.
   cf. comprehend, enterprise, forget, impregnable,
   prehensile.
   1. to procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire;
      to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to
      win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to
      get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by
      purchase, etc.
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   2. hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession
      of; to have. --johnson.
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            thou hast got the face of man.        --herbert.
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   3. to beget; to procreate; to generate.
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            i had rather to adopt a child than get it. --shak.
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   4. to obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to
      memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out;
      as, to get out one's greek lesson.
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            it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart,
            than to pen twenty.                   --bp. fell.
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   5. to prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
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            get him to say his prayers.           --shak.
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   6. to procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or
      condition; -- with a following participle.
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            those things i bid you do; get them dispatched.
                                                  --shak.
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   7. to betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
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            get thee out from this land.          --gen. xxxi.
                                                  13.
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            he . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of
            mega.                                 --knolles.
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   note: get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs
         implying motion, to express the causing to, or the
         effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of
         motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in,
         to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get
         in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract;
         to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to
         cause to come together, to collect.
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   to get by heart, to commit to memory.

   to get the better of, to get the best of, to obtain an
      advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.

   to get up, to cause to be established or to exit; to
      prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get
      up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.

   syn: to obtain; gain; win; acquire. see obtain.
        1913 webster
see also:
got gat gotten getting comprehend enterprise 
forget impregnable prehensile to get by heart to get the better of 
to get the best of to get up obtain 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

best \best\, n.
   utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing,
   or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our
   ability.
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   at best, in the utmost degree or extent applicable to the
      case; under the most favorable circumstances; as, life is
      at best very short.

   for best, finally. obs. "those constitutions . . . are
      now established for best, and not to be mended." --milton.

   to get the best of, to gain an advantage over, whether
      fairly or unfairly.

   to make the best of.
   a to improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the
       greatest advantage. "let there be freedom to carry their
       commodities where they can make the best of them."
       --bacon.
   b to reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to
       make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.
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see also:
at best for best to get the best of to make the best of 

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