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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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

 

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