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Word Meanings - CATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, catch. See 1. To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, catch. See 1. To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball. 2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. "They pursued . . . and caught him." Judg. i. 6. 3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish. 4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his words". Mark xii. 13. 5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. "Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue." Tennyson. 6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building. 7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm. The soothing arts that catch the fair. Dryden. 8. To get possession of; to attain. Torment myself to catch the English throne. Shak. 9. To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire. 10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing. 11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. To catch fire, to become inflamed or ignited. -- to catch it to get a scolding or beating; to suffer punishment. -- To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while speaking. "You catch me up so very short." Dickens. -- To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.

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  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • CAJOLERY
    A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
  • STICK-LAC
    See LAC
  • ADMITTER
    One who admits.
  • POUNCED
    1. Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson. 2. Ornamented with perforations or dots. "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." Holinshed.
  • OBJECTIVENESS
    Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • STICKING
    a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
  • ENTRAP
    To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • DECOYER
    One who decoys another.
  • INSNARER
    One who insnares.
  • 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
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • CENSURER
    One who censures. Sha.
  • OBJECTIST
    One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
  • CAJOLE
    To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
  • SNATCH
    1. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope. 2. To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." Thomson. Syn. -- To
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • POKING-STICK
    A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
  • SCATCH
    A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • UNCOMPREHEND
    To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • PIG-STICKING
    Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
  • FORESTICK
    Front stick of a hearth fire.
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • BEAUCATCHER
    A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.

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