Word Meanings - SEIZING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly. The operation of fastening together or lashing. The cord or lashing used for such fastening.
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- TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - GRASP
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; - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - LASH
G. lashe latchet, a bit of leather, gusset, stripe, laschen to furnish with flaps, to lash or slap, Icel. laski gusset, flap, laska 1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to - LASHING
The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - OPERATION
Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. - TAKE-IN
Imposition; fraud. - LASHER
One who whips or lashes. - GRASPER
One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds. - FASTENING
Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc. - TOGETHER
togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can - TAKE-UP
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch. - GRASPING
1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n. - GRASPLESS
Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge. - GRASPABLE
Capable of being grasped. - TAKING-OFF
Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak. - TAKEN
p. p. of Take. - TAKER
One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended. - CLASH
1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent - FATHER-LASHER
A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously. - IMPROPERATION
The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne - OUTTAKE
Except. R. of Brunne. - UNFASTEN
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie. - STAKTOMETER
A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster. - SIDE-TAKING
A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall. - COPPER-FASTENED
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. - MISTAKEN
1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.