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Situated above the sphenoidal bone; as, the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body.

Situated above a spine or spines; supraspinate; supraspinous.

Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.

A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.

Having four seeds. Tetraspermous plant, a plant which produces four seeds in each flower.

A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.

ne of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

ommon involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

ion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The black raspberry.

Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.

Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. B. Jonson.

bor. -- To carry off (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To bear away as from the power or grasp of others. (c) To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands. -- To carry on (a) To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to…

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

againts a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be ised for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

ble pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.

One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.