1828 dictionary Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary 1828 webster
Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
1828 american dictionary
 
1828 dictionary online
February 10, 2012

Results
1828 dictionary(3) Words.

Found In

Bible Results
Webster
KJV
1828 dictionaryTo be ...
These Bibles or ...
1828 dictionary... Completed
... Maybe you pick two (KJV vs Young's Literal) if logged in
G  ›  gripe
G › gripe
1828 Definition

GRIPE, v.t. [L.rapio.]

1. To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.

2. To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.

3. To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.

4. To close the fingers; to clutch.

5. To pinch; to press; to compress.

6. To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.

7. To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.

GRIPE, v.i. To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.

1. To feel the colic.

2. To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.

GRIPE, n. Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.

1. Squeeze; pressure.

2. Oppression; cruel exactions.

3. Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.

4. In seamen's language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.

5. Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.

6. Gripes, in seamen's language, an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.
1913 Definition
Gripe (gripe)
n.(?)
Gripe
[See Grype.] (Zoöl.)
  1. A vulture; the griffin.
    [Obs.]

    Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. Shak.

    Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. [Obs.] E. Jonson.

  2. To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
  3. To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

    Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ? Robynson (More's Utopia).

  4. To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.

    How inly sorrow gripes his soul. Shak.

  5. To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
  6. To suffer griping pains.
    Jocke.
  7. To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
    R. H. Dana, Jr.
  8. Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

    A barren scepter in my gripe. Shak.

  9. That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
  10. A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  11. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
  12. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  13. The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
    (b)
1828 dictionary
Noah Says...
Any system of education, therefore, which limits instruction to the arts and sciences, and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.…
 Letter to David McClure :: October 25, 1836 




McGuire Experience at the University of Arizona's Entrepreneurship Program
Real students with innovative ideas for real change -- and the talent to make it happen -- pitching concepts, research, and strategies to real investors and business leaders in one of the world’s most rigorous entrepreneurship programs.




1828 dictionary
Browse
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
monte








myApp
3d toon xxx3d monster porn3d sex3d porn3d monsters3d Monster FuckXxx Cartoontoon fuckAdult Comics3d gay sexHentai gay Porn