Word Meanings - GRASPLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.

Related words: (words related to GRASPLESS)

• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• PRECIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.
• PRECIOUS
  1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• RELAX
  1. To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews. Horror . . . all his joints relaxed. Milton. Nor served it to relax their
• GRASP
  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. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• RELAXATION
  1. The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law. 2. Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement. "Hours of careless relaxation."
• RELAXABLE
  Capable of being relaxed.
• GRASPER
  One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• PRECIOUSLY
  In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.
• GRASPING
  1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.
• GRASPLESS
  Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• GRASPABLE
  Capable of being grasped.
• UNFRIENDSHIP
  The state or quality of being unfriendly; unfriendliness; enmity. An act of unfriendship to my sovereign person. Sir W. Scott.
• PEARLITE; PEARLSTONE
  A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.
• ENGRASP
  To grasp; to grip. Spenser.