Word Meanings - CLAPS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Variant of Clasp Chaucer.

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• CLASPER
  1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
• CLASPERED
  Furnished with tendrils.
• VARIANT
  1. Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse. 2. Changeable; changing; fickle. He is variant, he abit nowhere. Chaucer.
• CLASP
  1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten . 2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace. 3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.
• RECLASP
  To clasp or unite again.
• INVARIANT
  An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.
• ENCLASP
  To clasp. See Inclasp.
• STEM-CLASPING
  Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
• INCLASP
  To clasp within; to hold fast to; to embrace or encircle. The flattering ivy who did ever see Inclasp the huge trunk of an aged tree. F. Beaumont.
• COVARIANT
  A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor.
• UNCLASP
  To loose the clasp of; to open, as something that is fastened, or as with, a clasp; as, to unclasp a book; to unclasp one's heart.
• UNIVARIANT
  Having one degree of freedom or variability.
• VACHETTE CLASP
  A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.