gripl (grip)

[ I found a hard friend in his loose accounts, A loose one in the hard grip of his hand. Tennyson , Sea Dreams. She clasped her hands with a grip of pain. Whittier, Tent on the Beach. The soft pre ure of a little hand that was one day to harden with faithful grip of sabre. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 55. 2. Mode of grasping; specifically, the grasp peculiar to any secret society as a means of recognition: as, the masonic grip.-3. That by which anything is grasped; a handle or hilt: as, the grip of a bow, of a sword or dagger, or of a gun-stock. See barrel, 5 ( m ). Holding the rod by the grip, the part of the butt wound with silk or rattan to a ist the grasp, one finds that the reel, which is just below the grip, aids in balancing the St. Nicholas, ХІІІ. 658. rod. 4. In mining, a purchase or lifting-dog used to draw up boring-rods, by catching them under the collar at the joints.-5. In theatrical cant, a man employed to move scenery and properties. Meanwhile the grips , as the scene-shifters are called, have hold of the side scenes ready to shove them on. Scribner's Mag . , IV. 444. 6. A gripsack (which see). [Colloq., U. S.] -7. A hole through which tarred rope is drawn, to pre the tar into the yarn and remove the superfluous portion. Also called gage and sliding nippers.-8. A clutching device attached to a railroad-car for connecting it with a moving traction-cable as a means of propulsion. See cable - railroad. -9. [ one's grip, to lose one's grasp or control of any situation or affair; lose one's self-control. He had effaced the blot upon his escutcheon. The man was no coward at heart; he had for the moment, in army parlance, lost his grip under that first murderous fire. The Century , XXXVI. 250. grip2 (grip), n. [Also gripe (see gripe2 ); gryppe (also dim. gryppel : see gripple2 ), a ditch, drain, = OD. grippe , gruppe , IMG:content-2685.png:[blocks in formation] OHG. grifan, MHG. grifen, G. greifen Icel. grip a = Sw. grip a = Dan. gribe = Goth. grei pan, gripe, seize. Hence grip1, gripple, and ult. grope, grasp, and perhaps grabl; also F. gripper, seize (of LG. or Scand. origin), griffe, a claw, talon (of HG. origin): see griff 1, griffel.] I. trans. 1. To lay hold of with the fingers or claws; grasp strongly; clutch. And when her suster herde this, she griped hir be the shulders, and put hir owt at the dore. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 9. 2. To seize and hold firmly in any way. He lay at the erthe, and griped him sore in his armes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 655. Thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a hand full gripe al the discourse. Spenser, F. Q., To Sir Walter Raleigh. He had griped the monarchy in a stricter and faster hold. Jer. Taylor. 3. To tighten; clench. Unlucky Welsted! thy unfeeling master, The more thou ticklest, gripes his hand the faster. Pope , Dunciad, ii. 210. Here's John the smith's rough hammered head. Great eye, Gro jaw, and griped lips do what granite can To give you the crown-grasper. Browning , Protus. 4. To produce pain in as if by constriction or contraction: as, to gripe the bowels. I've seen drops myself as made no difference whether they was in the gla or out, and yet have griped you the next day. George Eliot , Middle march, lxxi. Hence-5. To pinch; straiten; distre . And while fair Summers heat our fruits doth ripe, Cold Winters Ice may other Countries gripe. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. Had he been slaughterman to all my kin, I should not for my life but weep with him, To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. Do you not tell men sometimes of their dulne , When you are grip'd , as now you are, with need? Beau. and Fl ., Captain, ii. 1. II. in trans. 1. To lay hold with or as with the hand; fix the grasp or clutch. They found his hands. fast griping upon the edge of a square small coffer which lay all under his breast. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i Alternately their hammers rise and fall, Whilst griping tongs turn round the glowing ball. Add is on, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. Struggling they gripe , they pull, they bend, they strain. Brooke , Constant i a. 2. To get money by grasping practices and exactions: as, a griping miser. He has lost their fair affections By his most covetous and greedy griping . Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , i. 1. He discovered none of that griping avarice, too often the reproach of his countrymen in these wars. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 24. 3. To suffer griping pains.-4. Naut., to lie too close to the wind: as, a ship gripes when she has a tendency to shoot up into the wind in spite of her helm.