Grasp /(?)/

Grasp

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Grasper; p. pr. & vb. n. Qraspine

  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.
  2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.

Grasp

v. i.
  1. To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
    As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.

Phrases & Compounds
To grasp at
to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire,

Grasp

n.
  1. A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
  2. Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.
  3. Forcible possession; hold.
    The whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp.
  4. Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.
    The foremost minds of the next . . . era were not, in power of grasp, equal to their predecessors.
    — Z. Taylor.
  5. The handle of a sword or of an oar.