Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:

O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell ?

(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.

* T. Warton

Might I that legend find, / By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

* Dryden

Spelled with words of power.

* Sir G. Buck

He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.

Verb

(obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

* 1851 , :

"He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.

To be able to write or say the letters that form words.

I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.

Of letters: to compose (a word).

The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.

* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Helen Fryer, title=The Esperanto Teacher citation

, isbn=9780554320076, page=13, publisher=BiblioBazaar, LLC, passage=In Esperanto each letter has only one sound, and each sound is represented in only one way. The words are pronounced exactly as spelt , every letter being sounded.}}

(figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.

This spells trouble.

Please spell it out for me.

* 2003 , U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbel, Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation , ISBN 1422334120:

When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us

To constitute; to measure.

* Fuller

the Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect

Verb

To work in place of (someone).

to spell the helmsman

To rest (someone or something).

They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.

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.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

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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.

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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.