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clutch

CLUTCH, v.t.

1. To double in the fingers and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. [If n is not radical in clinch, this may be from the same root.]

2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand; as, to clutch a dagger; to clutch prey.

3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp.

CLUTCH, n. A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp.



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CLUTCH, v.t.

1. To double in the fingers and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. [If n is not radical in clinch, this may be from the same root.]

2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand; as, to clutch a dagger; to clutch prey.

3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp.

CLUTCH, n. A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp.


CLUTCH, n.

A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp.


CLUTCH, v.i. [This seems to be from the root of Sax. læccan, to seize, whence gelæccan, id. If not, I know not its origin. It may be allied to lock and latch.]

  1. To double in the fingers and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. [If n is not radical in clinch, this may be from the same root.]
  2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand; as, to clutch a dagger; to clutch prey. – Shak. Herbert.
  3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp. – Collier.

Clutch
  1. A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

    "The clutch of poverty." Cowper.

    An expiring clutch at popularity.
    Carlyle.

    But Age, with his stealing steps,
    Hath clawed me in his clutch.
    Shak.

  2. To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws] -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.

    A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
    Collier.

    Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ?
    Come, let me clutch thee.
    Shak.

  3. To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.

    Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market.
    Bankroft.

  4. The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.

    I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
    Bp. Stillingfleet.

  5. To close tightly; to clinch.

    Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
    Shak.

  6. A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.
  7. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
  8. The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

    Bayonet clutch (Mach.), a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.

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Clutch

CLUTCH, verb transitive

1. To double in the fingers and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. [If n is not radical in clinch, this may be from the same root.]

2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand; as, to clutch a dagger; to clutch prey.

3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp.

CLUTCH, noun A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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HEDGE, n. hej. [Eng. haw] Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.

Hedge, prefixed to another word, or in composition, denotes something mean, as a hedge-priest, a hedge-press, a hedge-vicar, that is, born in or belonging to the hedges or woods, low, outlandish. [Not used in American.]

HEDGE, v.t. hej. To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge; as, to hedge a field or garden.

1. To obstruct with a hedge, or to obstruct in any manner.

I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos.2.

2. To surround for defense; to fortify.

England hedged in with the main.

3. To inclose for preventing escape.

That is a law to hedge in the cuckow.

Dryden, Swift and Shakespeare have written hedge, for edge, to edge in, but improperly.

HEDGE, v.i. hej. To hide, as in a hedge; to hide; to skulk.

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