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To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

See Raspatory.

A surgeon's rasp. Wiseman.

fruit of the Rubus Idæus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red and the white raspberry.

One who, or which, rasps; a scraper.

The raspberry. [Obs.] Langham.

Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating. R. D. Blackmore.

A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

To grasp; to grip. [R.] Spenser.

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.

Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

Below the spine; infraspinate; infraspinous.

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

The parasphenoid bone.