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One who deals in frippery or in old clothes. [Obs.] Bacon.

A fripper. [Obs.] Johnson.

ondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.

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.

Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.

In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.

The man who manipulates a grip.

The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.

One who, or that which, grips or seizes.

A grasp; a gripe. [Obs.] Spenser.

The quality of being gripple. [Obs.]

A traveler's handbag. [Colloq.]

Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.

A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

The quality of being imprescriptible.

being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription. The right of navigation, fishing, and others that may be exercised on the sea, belonging to the right of mere ability, are imprescriptible. Vattel (Trans. )