GET

Definitions for the word, get

(n.) Artifice; contrivance.

(n.) Fashion; manner; custom.

(n.) Jet, the mineral.

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

(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.

(v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

(v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.

(v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

(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.

(v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

(v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.

(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.