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Grip, Gryp(p, v. Also: gripp(e, grep. [ME. gryppe, grippe, O.Northumb. grippa (-grippia, grioppa), related to OE. Grípan, ON. Grípa.]
1. tr. To seize (with the hand or in the claw, beak, etc.); to clutch. ?1438 Alex. ii. 4607.
With that, he grippit his sword in hy c1475 Wall. xi. 175; Ib. 619.
The tothir hynt to Wallace in that sted, … And he agayn in greiff him grippyt sayr c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxii. 29.
He grippit hir abowt the west Id. xxxviii. 13.
The auld kene tegir … Thinking to grip ws in his clow[i]s strang 1513 Doug. ii. viii. 14.
Thai … oft with rycht handis grypp the battalyng wald Ib. ix. 75.
Lytil Iulus grippis me by the hand a1605 Montg. Flyt. 497.
They graip it [sc. the child], they grip it; it greets and they grane
b. transf. Said of pain or disease. In p. ppl.: Griped. 1576 Digest Justic. Proc. I. 24.
Quhen sindrie personis come to hir to seik help … for ane bairne that wes tane away with ane blast of wound or ellis grippit a1605 Montg. Misc. P. v. 11.
My guttis ar grippit so with grief, It eitis me vp in yre
c. To search, by feeling with the hands. = Grape v. 2. lit. and fig. 1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 168 (R).
I gryppyt graithly the gil a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 1362.
Quhyle we grip it [an ailment] to the grund
2. fig. To seize, lay hands upon; take possession of. c1475 Wall. i. 170.
No for the Pape thai wald no kyrkis forber, Bot gryppyt all be wiolence of wer Ib. vii. 933.
Inglismen, that Scotland gryppit all 1489 Lennox Mun. 130.
The personis vnderwritin, … greppit and applyit to thaim … the haile autorite and strinthtis of this realme c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxvi. 37.
The temporall stait to gryp and gather, The sone disheris wald the father a1568 Scott iv. 90.
The moir digest and grave, The grydiar to grip it 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 3.
The said erle gripped the most pairt of the gold 1592 Rec. Earld. Orkney 167.
Tua riggis of land … wranguslie grippit be thame 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. MS. 22 b.
Annie Walters dochter hes wrangouslie grippit ane kuppill of Androw Grayis 1632 Kirkwall Sheriff Ct. 14.
That nae man grip his nighbours lands vnder the paine of x lib.
3. absol. and intr. To grasp, make a grasp or seizure; to get a grip. (lit. and fig.) 1375 Barb. i. 115.
Had ye … considerit his vsage, That gryppyt ay, but gaynegevyng 1567 G. Ball. 30.
Thay gryp sa fast his geir to get 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xix. 35.
To giue with the one hand, and to grippe againe with the other
b. To grip to (til) or at: To seize upon, take hold of; to grasp at. (lit. and fig.) a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 530.
He grippit to ane grete speir Ib. 1026.
Gude schir Gawane Grippit to schir Gologras 1558-66 Knox II. 128.
Some had greadelie gripped to the possessionis of the Kirk 1600 Melvill 486.
This occasioun was gripped at till undo that ministerie 1646 Misc. Hist. Soc. I. 134.
Propositiouns made to the kirk, albeit conditionall, ar so grippit to that quhat he thinks arbitrary becomes necessar
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