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Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease..

Cony-catcher :: Cony-catcher (n.) A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver.

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form..

Trip :: Trip (n. i.) To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody..

Bag Net :: Bag net () A bag-shaped net for catching fish.

Whitewall :: Whitewall (n.) The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream..

Springe :: Springe (v. i.) A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare..

Scatches :: Scatches (n. pl.) Stilts.

Catch :: Catch (v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch..

Hitch :: Hitch (n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc..

Taker :: Taker (n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

Web :: Web (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.

Pawl :: Pawl (n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel..

Gasp :: Gasp (v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently..

Immesh :: Immesh (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare..

Spattling-poppy :: Spattling-poppy (n.) A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

Catchable :: Catchable (a.) Capable of being caught.

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together.

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