Vocabulary : Graphology to Grapsoid

Graphology : The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting. ;; The system or notation used in dealing with graphs.
Graphophone : A kind of photograph.
Graphoscope : An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones. ;; An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.
Graphotype : A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
Grapnel : A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

Grapple : To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist. ;; To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly. ;; To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another. ;; A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold. ;; An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab. ;; A grappling iron.
Grappled : of Grapple
Grapplement : A grappling; close fight or embrace.
Grappling : 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.
Grapsoid : Pertaining to the genus Grapsus or the family Grapsidae. ;; A grapsoid crab.

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