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AVARICIOUS |
Grasping |
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SEIZING |
Grasping |
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HOLDING |
Grasping |
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GRIPPING |
Grasping tightly |
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GREEDY |
Grasping, heartless guy hides instrument mouthpiece |
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LOUNGE |
Surge forward, grasping nothing, and sprawl |
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TENTACLE |
Used for grasping torn lace behind tent? |
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PREHENSILE |
(Of animal's limb or tail) capable of grasping |
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GRIP |
A device for grasping or holding fast to something. |
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CURMUDGEON |
An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a
churl. |
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CLINCH |
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing
tightly. |
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GRIPE |
A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a
wheel. |
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GRASPING |
Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as,
he is a grasping man. |
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RAPACIOUS |
Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy;
ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. |
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CLASP |
A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping,
as with the hand. |
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PREHENSION |
The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with
the hand or other member. |
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GRASP |
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to
clutch; to struggle; to strive. |
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CLASPER |
One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the
female among many of the Crustacea. |
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MISER |
A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth,
who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. |
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APPREHENSION |
The act of grasping with the intellect; the
contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any
judgment; intellection; perception. |
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OUTSIDER |
A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in
the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside. |
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PINCHERS |
An instrument having two handles and two grasping
jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast,
drawing nails, etc. |
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COMPREHENSION |
The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand;
the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception;
understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles. |
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CLUTCH |
The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly;
-- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall
into the clutches of an adversary. |
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CHELIFORM |
Having a movable joint or finger closing against a
preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be
used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike. |