Get /(jĕt)/

Get

n.
  1. Jet, the mineral. [Obs.]

Get

n.
  1. Fashion; manner; custom. [Obs.]
  2. Artifice; contrivance. [Obs.]

Get

v. t.

imp. Got; p. p. Got; p. pr. & vb. n. Getting

  1. 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. [Obs.]
  2. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
    Thou hast got the face of man.
  3. To beget; to procreate; to generate.
    I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
  4. 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.
    It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty.
    — Bp. Fell.
  5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
    Get him to say his prayers.
  6. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
    Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.
  7. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
    Get thee out from this land.
    — Gen. xxxi. 13.
    He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega.

Phrases & Compounds
To get by heart
to commit to memory.
To get the better of
to obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.
To get up
to cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.

Get

v. i.
  1. To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
    We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
  2. 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.
    To get rid of fools and scoundrels.
    His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Phrases & Compounds
To get ahead
to advance; to prosper.
To get along
to proceed; to advance; to prosper.
To get a mile
(or other distance), to pass over it in traveling.
To get among
to go or come into the company of; to become one of a number.
To get asleep
to fall asleep.
To get astray
to wander out of the right way.
To get at
to reach; to make way to.
To get away with
to carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat.
To get back
to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return.
To get before
to arrive in front, or more forward.
To get behind
to fall in the rear; to lag.
To get between
to arrive between.
To get beyond
to pass or go further than; to exceed; to surpass.
To get clear
to disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment.
To get drunk
to become intoxicated.
To get forward
to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth.
To get home
to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim.
To get into
To enter, as, “she prepared to get into the coach.”
To get loose
to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement.
To get near
to approach within a small distance.
To get on
to proceed; to advance; to prosper.
To get over
To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty.
To get through
To pass through something.
To get up
To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc.

Get

n.
  1. Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

get

n.

pl. gittin, gitim

  1. A divorce granted by a Rabbi in accordance with Jewish law; also, the document attesting to the divorce.