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To seize; to clutch; to grapple. [Obs.] Drayton.

Deviation from correct orthography; bad spelling. [Obs.] Feltham.

See Entrap. Spenser.

o not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.…

To cover by wrapping; to involve; to infold; as, to inwrap in a cloak, in smoke, etc.

A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.

Of or pertaining to isography.

Imitation of another's handwriting,

Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe. Scudamore.

A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere. -- Ker`au-nog"ra-phy, n.

See Kinesiatrics.

A camera for making chronophotographs.

An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.

An instrument for recording the larynx movements in speech.

compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Johnson.

Of or pertaining to, or according to, lexicography. -- Lex`i*co*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

A lexicographer. [R.] Southey.

The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.