To catch; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
To take; receive with assent, accept.
To receive with hospitality, as a guest; welcome.
To receive (a thing given or imposed).
To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
To seize; lay hold.
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A valve in a pump; the water-seal of a pump.
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A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
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That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
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Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
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Specifically — A claw or talon; a falcula.
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A fin.
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A long, sharp tooth, as an organ of prehension, as the canine tooth of a dog, or the tusk of a boar or an elephant.
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The socketed part of a tooth, as that by which the tooth holds on to the jaw. There may be one or several fangs.
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The poison-or venom-tooth of a serpent, through which venom is injected into a wound made by it. See venom, and cut under poison-fang.
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The pointed and curved second joint of the falx or chelicera of a spider, pierced at the tip by the opening of the poison-duct. The term is sometimes applied to the whole chelicera. See cuts under chelicera and falx.
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The tang of a tool.
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Any projecting prong in a lock or a bolt.
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In mining: A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, for conveying air.
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plural Cage-shuts.
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