Definition of grasp

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Grasp (v. t.) To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.

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Prehensile :: Prehensile (n.) Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey..
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception..
Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..
Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Forcible possession; hold.
Gripple :: Gripple (n.) A grasp; a gripe.
Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain..
Impalm :: Impalm (v. t.) To grasp with or hold in the hand.
Pinchers :: Pinchers (n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc..
Engrasp :: Engrasp (v. t.) To grasp; to grip.
Outsider :: Outsider (n.) A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside..
Clinch :: Clinch (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Grab :: Grab (n.) A sudden grasp or seizure.
Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite..
Elusive :: Elusive (a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Engrasped :: Engrasped (imp. & p. p.) of Engras.
Seizing :: Seizing (n.) The act of taking or grasping suddenly.
Hand :: Hand (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim..
Clinch :: Clinch (n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch..
Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear..
Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp..
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