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Catch
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A slight remembrance; a trace.
(2):
(v. t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
(3):
(v. i.) To attain possession.
(4):
(v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
(5):
(n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.
(6):
(v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
(7):
(v. t.) To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
(8):
(v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
(9):
(v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
(10):
(v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
(11):
(v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
(12):
(v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
(13):
(v. t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
(14):
(v. t.) To get possession of; to attain.
(15):
(v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
(16):
(v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
(17):
(n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
(18):
(n.) Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
(19):
(v. i.) To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.
(20):
(n.) The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.
(21):
(n.) Act of seizing; a grasp.
(22):
(n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
(23):
(n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Catch'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/catch.html. 1828.
