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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Grasp

Grasp (grasp)
v. t.(?)
Grasp
[imp. *** p. p. Grasper (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Qraspine.] [OE. graspen] prob. akin to LG. grupsen, or to E. grope. Cf. Grab, Grope.]
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

    Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak.

  2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.

Grasp

Grasp (grasp)
v. i.
Grasp
  1. To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.

    As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued. Shak.

    To grasp at, to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire,

Grasp

Grasp (grasp)
n.
Grasp
  1. A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
    "The grasps of love." Shak.
  2. Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
  3. Forcible possession; hold.

    The whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp. Shak.

  4. Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.

    The foremost minds of the next . . . era were not, in power of grasp, equal to their predecessors. Z. Taylor.

  5. The handle of a sword or of an oar.












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