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Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.

Elusive :: Elusive (a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

Tantalus :: Tantalus (n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them..

Seizure :: Seizure (n.) Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.

Vice :: Vice (n.) A gripe or grasp.

Clasp :: Clasp (v. t.) To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.

Curmudgeon :: Curmudgeon (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl..

Grip :: Grip (v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword..

Clinch :: Clinch (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes..

Hold :: Hold (n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay..

Seizing :: Seizing (n.) The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

Holding :: Holding (n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining..

Engrasp :: Engrasp (v. t.) To grasp; to grip.

Grasping :: Grasping (a.) Seizing; embracing; catching.

Handygripe :: Handygripe (n.) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting..

Short :: Short (superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory..

Forceps :: Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc..

Relax :: Relax (v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax..

Grasp :: Grasp (n.) The handle of a sword or of an oar.

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