Word Meanings - AMPLECTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.

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• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• CLASPER
  1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• CLASPERED
  Furnished with tendrils.
• AMPLECTANT
  Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.
• SUPPORT
  convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• CLASP
  1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten . 2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace. 3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.
• RECLASP
  To clasp or unite again.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• ENCLASP
  To clasp. See Inclasp.
• STEM-CLASPING
  Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
• INCLASP
  To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle. The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.
• UNCLASP
  To loose the clasp of; to open, as something that is fastened, or as with, a clasp; as, to unclasp a book; to unclasp one's heart.
• VACHETTE CLASP
  A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.