Word Meanings - TAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.

APPREHENDER
One who apprehends.
APPREHEND
of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
SCATCHES
Stilts.
MISAPPREHEND
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.
SWEEPSTAKES
The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. 3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered. (more