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, 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 sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B. Jonson.

The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.

ement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Acts viii. 37.

A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.

A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.

A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.

m who all things can. Milton. For what, alas, can these my single arms Shak. Mæcænas and Agrippa, who can most with Cæsar. Beau. & Fl.