Word Meanings - ENCLASP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To clasp. See Inclasp.

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.
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.
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.
ENCLASP
To clasp. See Inclasp.
STEM-CLASPING
Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
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.
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.