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

take \take\, v. i.
   1. to take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or
      intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was
      inoculated, but the virus did not take. --shak.
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            when flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
                                                  --bacon.
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            in impressions from mind to mind, the impression
            taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any
            manifest effect.                      --bacon.
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   2. to please; to gain reception; to succeed.
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            each wit may praise it for his own dear sake,
            and hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
                                                  --addison.
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   3. to move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's
      self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox,
      being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
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   4. to admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his
      face does not take well.
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   to take after.
      a to learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes
          after a good pattern.
      b to resemble; as, the son takes after his father.

   to take in with, to resort to. obs. --bacon.

   to take on, to be violently affected; to express grief or
      pain in a violent manner.

   to take to.
      a to apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become
          attached to; as, to take to evil practices. "if he
          does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great
          friendship with him." --walpole.
      b to resort to; to betake one's self to. "men of
          learning, who take to business, discharge it generally
          with greater honesty than men of the world."
          --addison.

   to take up.
      a to stop. obs. "sinners at last take up and settle in
          a contempt of religion." --tillotson.
      b to reform. obs. --locke.

   to take up with.
      a to be contended to receive; to receive without
          opposition; to put up with; 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." --i. watts.
      b to lodge with; to dwell with. obs. --l'estrange.

   to take with, to please. --bacon.
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see also:
to take after to take in with to take on to take to to take up to take up with 
to take with 

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