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- English Word Grasp Definition Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
- English Word Grasp Definition The handle of a sword or of an oar.
- English Word Graspable Definition Capable of being grasped.
- English Word Grasper Definition of Grasp
- English Word Grasping Definition Seizing; embracing; catching.
- English Word Grasping Definition Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
- English Word Graspless Definition Without a grasp; relaxed.
- English Word Grass Definition Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
- English Word Grass Definition An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
- English Word Grass Definition The season of fresh grass; spring.
- English Word Grass Definition Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
- English Word Grass Definition To cover with grass or with turf.
- English Word Grass Definition To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- English Word Grass Definition To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
- English Word Grass Definition To produce grass.
- English Word Grass tree Definition An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.
- English Word Grass tree Definition A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
- English Word Grass-green Definition Green with grass.
- English Word Grass-green Definition Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.
- English Word Grass-grown Definition Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
- English Word Grassation Definition A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
- English Word Grassed Definition of Grass
- English Word Grasshopper Definition Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
- English Word Grasshopper Definition In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.
- English Word Grassiness Definition The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
- English Word Grassing Definition of Grass
- English Word Grassless Definition Destitute of grass.
- English Word Grassplot Definition A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
- English Word Grassy Definition Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.
- English Word Grassy Definition Resembling grass; green.