engrasp

English

Etymology

en- +‎ grasp?

Verb

engrasp (third-person singular simple present engrasps, present participle engrasping, simple past and past participle engrasped)

1. (obsolete) To grasp; to grip.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Now gan Pyrochles wex as wood as hee,
     And him affronted with impatient might :
     So both together fiers engrasped bee ,
     Whiles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife does see

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “engrasp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Pranges, spanger