TAKING
\tˈe͡ɪkɪŋ], \tˈeɪkɪŋ], \t_ˈeɪ_k_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of TAKING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"
By Princeton University
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very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Apt to take; alluring; attracting.
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The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.
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Malign influence; infection.
By Oddity Software
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Apt to take; alluring; attracting.
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The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.
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Malign influence; infection.
By Noah Webster.
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Colloquially, attractive; infectious.
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The act of gaining possession; seizure.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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TAKINGLY.
By Daniel Lyons
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TAKINGLY.
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Fascinating; captivating.
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The act of one who takes.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Alluring; attracting; infectious.
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The act of gaining possession; seizure; apprehension; agitation; distress of mind.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Act of gaining possession ;- agitation; excitement; distress of mind.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.