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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.

 

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