Word Meanings - GRIPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to GRIPPLE)
- 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; - GRIPER
One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton. - GRASPER
One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds. - 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. - GRIPEFUL
Disposed to gripe; extortionate. - GRASPABLE
Capable of being grasped. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - GRIPE
A vulture; the griffin. Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. Shak. Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. E. Jonson. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - HANDYGRIPE
Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras. - ENGRASP
To grasp; to grip. Spenser.