Definition of grasp

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Grasp (n.) A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms..

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Grip :: Grip (v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.
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..
Clubbed :: Clubbed (a.) Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club..
Grasp :: Grasp (v. i.) To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
Elusive :: Elusive (a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword..
Hold :: Hold (n.) Something that may be grasped; means of support.
Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
Handfast :: Handfast (n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.
Graaper :: Graaper (n.) One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
Clinch :: Clinch (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
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..
Short :: Short (superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory..
Engrasp :: Engrasp (v. t.) To grasp; to grip.
Prehensory :: Prehensory (a.) Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.
Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..
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..
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms..
Catch :: Catch (n.) Act of seizing; a grasp.
Lug :: Lug (n.) That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug..
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