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Word Meanings - UNCLUTCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To disengage, as a clutch. (more info) 1. To open, as something closely shut. "Unclutch his griping hand." Dr. H. More.

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  • GRIPPLE
    A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
  • GRIPSACK
    A traveler's handbag.
  • UNCLUTCH
    To disengage, as a clutch. (more info) 1. To open, as something closely shut. "Unclutch his griping hand." Dr. H. More.
  • GRIPINGLY
    In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.
  • GRIPER
    One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
  • GRIPMAN
    The man who manipulates a grip.
  • GRIPPLENESS
    The quality of being gripple.
  • CLUTCH
    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
  • DISENGAGEMENT
    1. The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones. 2. Freedom
  • DISENGAGED
    Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. -- Dis`en*ga"ged*ness, n.
  • GRIPEFUL
    Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
  • GRIP CAR
    A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.
  • CLOSELY
    1. In a close manner. 2. Secretly; privately. That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.
  • SOMETHING
    1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something
  • GRIP
    The griffin.
  • DISENGAGE
    To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise,
  • GRIPPER
    In printing presses, the fingers or nippers. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes. 2. pl.
  • GRIPPE
    The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.
  • GRIPE
    A vulture; the griffin. Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. Shak. Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. E. Jonson.
  • HANDYGRIPE
    Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
  • CONE CLUTCH
    A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces.
  • DISK CLUTCH
    A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.
  • LOGOGRIPH
    A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B.

 

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