- (n.) Artifice; contrivance.
- (v.t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
- (v.i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To procure to be or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
- (v.t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
- (v.i.) To arrive at or bring one's self into, a state, condition or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.
- (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
- (n.) Fashion; manner; custom.
- (v.t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
- (n.) Jet, the mineral.
- (v.t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.
- (v.t.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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