Part 4984

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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<hw>Grip</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>gryps</ets>, <ets>gryphus</ets>. See <er>Griffin</er>, <er>Grype</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The griffin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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<hw>Grip</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. AS. <ets>grip</ets> furrow, hitch, D. <ets>greb</ets>.]</ety> <def>A small ditch or furrow.</def>

<i>Ray.</i>

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<hw>Grip</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To trench; to drain.</def>

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<hw>Grip</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>gripe</ets>. Cf. <er>Grip</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, <er>Gripe</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; <as>as, a masonic <ex>grip</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; <as>as, the grip of a sword</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A device for grasping or holding fast to something.</def>

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<hw>Grip</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Grip</er> a grasp; or P. <ets>gripper</ets> to seize; -- of German origin. See <er>Gripe</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.</def>

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<hw>Gripe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Grype</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A vulture; the griffin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Like a white hind under the <b>gripe's</b> sharp claws. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Gripe's egg</col>, <cd>an alchemist's vessel. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>E. Jonson. </i>

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<hw>Gripe</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Griped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Griping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>gripan</ets>; akin to D. <ets>grijpen</ets>, G. <ets>greifen</ets>, OHG. <ets>gr<?/fan</ets>, Icel. <ets>gripa</ets>, Sw. <ets>gripe</ets>, Dan. <ets>gribe</ets>, Goth. <ets>greipan</ets>; cf. Lith. <ets>graibyti</ets>, Russ. <ets>grabite</ets> to plunder, Skr. <ets>grah</ets>, <ets>grabh</ets>, to seize. Cf. <er>Grip</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, <er>Grope</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.</def>

<blockquote>Wouldst thou <b>gripe</b> both gain and pleasure ? <i>Robynson (More's Utopia).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.</def>

<blockquote>How inly sorrow <b>gripes</b> his soul. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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