To select and take or approve.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
To give an endorsement.
To report (a symptom); to describe.
To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.
To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly.
A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.