- Fascinated
- Grasped very tightly
- Held attention of
- Held fast
- A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of
music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves.
- To hold ridottos.
- Struggling
- of Grapple
- A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is
seized and held, a grapnel.
- A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in
grappling for the bear.
- An instrument having two handles and two grasping
jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast,
drawing nails, etc.
- The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held
at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days
after the fast.
- Act of twisting
- Twisting
- Twisting force
- The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being
twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a
lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a
longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the
opposite direction.
- That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any
material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has
been twisted; torsibility.