transitive. To make (a thing) one's own; to gain possession or control of; to appropriate, seize, win; to adopt as one's own. Obsolete.

transitive. To clear for oneself; to acquire, take (territory). Obsolete.

transitive. To grant or give oneself (leave, permission, etc.), esp. presumptuously; to lay claim to (a freedom or right to do something).

To make one's own; to take possession of. (Originally with reflexive.pron. etc., afterwards absol.)

to keep, take toor for one's own store: to appropriate, take possession of. Obsolete.

transitive. To take out of safe keeping or from someone's possession; to carry off, steal, appropriate, liberate; (also) to enable to depart. Also…

transitive. To appropriate, make one's own, take possession of. With to oneself.

To seize upon for one's own, take possession of. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To appropriate, impropriate.

transitive. To make proper or peculiar to some person or thing: to make one's (or some one's) own; to appropriate. Obsolete.

figurative. transitive. To apportion at discretion, to assign as one's portion or lot, to take at one's pleasure.

To intercept and appropriate (a living, a revenue). Also with away. Obsolete.

Const. to oneself: = 3.

transitive. = appropriate, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To take possession of for one's own, to appropriate, esp. dishonestly.

transferred. To take possession of.

transitive. To make one's own property; to appropriate; to take or hold possession of.

To take to oneself, appropriate, adopt.

Hence elliptical. To take possession of for one's own, to take to oneself.

figurative. To take for oneself, or into itself, as a territory or other possession; to absorb, appropriate. (See also 10e.)

to swallow up. To take completely into itself, or for oneself; to appropriate, absorb (= 4d); †in quot. 1544, to take fully upon oneself.

transitive. To appropriate (money, etc.) for one's own use; to make away with; = pocket, v. 1b. Obsolete.

transitive. To put into or enclose in a pouch; to put into one's pocket. Also in extended use: to take possession of, to ‘bag’.

transitive. To make one's own; to appropriate.

colloquial. To ‘pocket’.

transitive. To put into one's fob, to pocket; also with up.

intransitive. to look back to: to evoke or draw inspiration from (something in the past); to pay homage to or appropriate elements of (a style…

transitive. colloquial. With up. To acquire as profit or gain; to win. Also intransitive: to make a substantial gain. Cf. to clean up at clean, v. 3a.

transitive. To steal (something), to misappropriate or make away with. Later also (in weakened sense): to take or claim (something) for oneself…