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One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of…

The principles of the Erastains.

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness. Quincy.

The plant eyesight (euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.

f European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.

Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.

The extrastapedial part of columella.

A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.

See Heliotrope. [Obs.]

The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya.

embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak.

Capable of being grasped.

One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.

Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.