Taint"less, a. Free from taint or infection; pure.
Taint"less*ly, adv. In a taintless manner.
Tain"ture (?), n. [F. teinture. See Taint to stain, and cf. Tincture.]
Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. [R.] Shak.
Taint"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect
larva.
Tai"ra (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Tayra.
Tairn (?), n. See Tarn. Coleridge.
Tait (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian
marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long
muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and
insects. Called also noolbenger.
{ Ta*jaç"u, Ta*jas"su } (?), n. [Pg. tajaçú, from Braz. tayaçú a hog or
swine.] (Zoöl.) The common, or collared, peccary.
Take (?), obs. p. p. of Take. Taken. Chaucer.
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Take, v. t. [imp. Took (?); p. p. Takend (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taking.]
[Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. tkan to touch; of
uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with
the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence,
specifically: —
(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or
control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to
capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a
ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize;
— said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
This man was taken of the Jews.
Acts xxiii. 27.
Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are
wise, but others weak.
Pope.
They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with
sickness.
Bacon.
There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine
yield blood.
Shak.
(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to
engage; to interest; to charm.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Prov. vi. 25.
Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience.
Wake.
I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features,
— a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, —
which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her
companions.
Moore.
(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse
to; as, to take the road to the right.
Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was
taken.