1) an alcoholic drink e.g. sherry taken before a meal (aperitif)

2) drink (usually alcoholic) or food (small and attractive) taken before a meal to encourage an appetite (appetizer)

3) things taken by robbers or captured from the enemy in war (booty)

4) air taken into and sent out of the lungs (breath)

5) the form taken by an insect (e.g. a butterfly) between the time when it creeps or crows (as a larva) and the time when it flies (chrysalis)

6) a mixed alcoholic drink, especially one taken before a meal (cocktail)

7) the substance that remains when gas is being taken out of coal, used as a fuel (coke)

8) (the trade in) goods brought into or taken out of a country illegally (contraband)

9) a course taken by a moving person or thing; point towards which a person or thing looks or faces (direction)

10) an amount of money which may be taken off the full price, e.g. for quick payment (discount)