Index of English words, starting with "cl"

(1) - Clasp (n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
(2) - Clasp (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
(3) - Clasp (v. t.) To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
(4) - Clasp (v. t.) To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
(5) - Clasp (v. t.) To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

(1) - Clasper (n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera.
(2) - Clasper (n.) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
(3) - Clasper (n.) One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.

(1) - Clasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clasp