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A grappling; close fight or embrace. [Obs.] Spenser.

A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.

Pertaining to the genus Grapsus or the family Grapsidæ. -- n.

One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.

Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.

Composed of, or resembling, grapes. The grapy clusters. Addison.

The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.

The act or art of engraving on gypsum.

An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.

Same as Hæmadromograph.

The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

, Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

Same Hagiographa.

One who writes about or describes the sea.

Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.

ple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph.]

See Hectograph.

An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.