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An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious. [Obs.] Spenser.

alamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.

tive of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.

Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious. "Him death's iron sleep oppressed." Philips.

Viscid; viscous; tenacious. Spawn of a lentous and transparent body. Sir T. Browne.

A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

ts bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are con…

A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.

Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.

One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities. Ld. Lytton.

capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.

Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal. Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond Thou but offend;st thy lungs to speak so loud. Shak.

Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present. Rowe.

Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious. Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk. Bacon.

Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.

. The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey.