Part 1701

<blockquote>Have is have, however men do <b>catch</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; <as>as, a kite <ex>catches</ex> in a tree; a door <ex>catches</ex> so as not to open.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To take hold; <as>as, the bolt does not <ex>catch</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.</def>

<blockquote>Does the sedition <b>catch</b> from man to man? <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To catch at</col>, <cd>to attempt to seize; to be egger to get or use. " <i>catch at<i> all opportunities of subverting the state." <i>Addison</i>.</cd> -- <col>To catch up with</col>, <cd>to come up with; to overtake.</cd></cs>

<h1>Catch</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Catch</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Act of seizing; a grasp.</def>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; <as>as, the <ex>catch</ex> of a gate</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; <as>as, to lie on the <ex>catch</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Addison.</i>

<blockquote>The common and the canon law . . . lie at <b>catch</b>, and wait advantages one againt another. <i>T. Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; <as>as, a good <ex>catch</ex> of fish</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Hector shall have a great <b>catch</b> if he knock out either of your brains. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<i>Marryat.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Passing opportunities seized; snatches.</def>

<blockquote>It has been writ by <b>catches</b> with many intervals. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A slight remembrance; a trace.</def>

<blockquote>We retain a <b>catch</b> of those pretty stories. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.</def>

<h1>Catchable</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Catch"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being caught.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Catch-basin</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Catch"-ba`sin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Catchdrain</h1> <Xpage=225>