Verb

(en verb)

(of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.

* 1888 September 20, " The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):

The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

* 1905 , , The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation , ch. 4:

"By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls , keep thy tryst!"

* 1918 , , The Story Of Waitstill Baxter , ch. 29:

"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

Verb

(en verb)

To baptise.

Verb

(en verb)

To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk

Verb

(label) To obtain; to acquire.

(label) To receive.

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To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .

(label) To become.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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(label) To cause to become; to bring about.

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(label) To fetch, bring, take.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13

Get thee out from this land.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

Heto the strong town of Mega.

(label) To cause to do.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Get him to say his prayers.

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To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

to get rid of fools and scoundrels

(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

to get a mile

(label) To cause to come or go or move.

(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1

Get thee behind me.

(label) To begin (doing something).

(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

To be subjected to.

* '>citation

Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl

(label) To be.

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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

To catch out, trick successfully.

To perplex, stump.

(label) To find as an answer.

To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

(label) To hear completely; catch.

(label) To .

To beget (of a father).

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:

Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.

(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .

* (1625-1686)

it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty

Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian :

Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.