To catch; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.To take; receive with assent, accept.To receive with hospitality, as a guest; welcome.To receive (a thing given or imposed).To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.To seize; lay hold.n. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.n. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.n. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.n. Specifically — A claw or talon; a falcula.n. A fin.n. A long, sharp tooth, as an organ of prehension, as the canine tooth of a dog, or the tusk of a boar or an elephant.n. The socketed part of a tooth, as that by which the tooth holds on to the jaw. There may be one or several fangs.n. The poison-or venom-tooth of a serpent, through which venom is injected into a wound made by it. See venom, and cut under poison-fang.n. The pointed and curved second joint of the falx or chelicera of a spider, pierced at the tip by the opening of the poison-duct. The term is sometimes applied to the whole chelicera. See cuts under chelicera and falx.n. The tang of a tool.n. Any projecting prong in a lock or a bolt.n. In mining: A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, for conveying air.n. plural Cage-shuts.n. n. A valve in a pump; the water-seal of a pump.