(b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to
swallow; as, to take food or wine.
(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to
take a hedge or fence.
(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate;
to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to
allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to
understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to
suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
motive; to take men for spies.
You take me right.
Bacon.
Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science
love of God and our neighbor.
Wake.
[He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a
disguise.
South.
You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
Tate.
(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to
submit to; to enter into agreement with; — used in general senses; as,
to take a form or shape.