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Seizing :: Seizing (n.) The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

Usurpation :: Usurpation (n.) The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power..

Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth..

Prehension :: Prehension (n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member..

Houseline :: Houseline (n.) A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.

Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..

Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp..

Disseizure :: Disseizure (n.) Disseizin.

Seizin :: Seizin (n.) Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership..

Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Catching :: Catching (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of.

Prehensile :: Prehensile (n.) Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey..

Possession :: Possession (n.) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful..

Grasping :: Grasping (a.) Seizing; embracing; catching.

Redisseizin :: Redisseizin (n.) A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case..

Investiture :: Investiture (n.) Livery of seizin.

Levy :: Levy (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods..

Fox :: Fox (n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats..

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..

Nip :: Nip (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice..

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