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Catch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To communicate; to spread by infecting; as, a disease will catch from man to man.

2. Any thing that seizes or takes hold, as a hook.

3. The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to catch or of watching an opportunity to seize; as, to lie upon the catch

4. A sudden advantage taken.

5. The thing caught, considered as an object of desire; profit; advantage.

6. Hector shall have a great catch Shak.

7. A snatch; a short interval of action.

8. It has been writ by catches.

9. A little portion.

10. We retain a catch of a pretty story.

11. In music, a fugue in the unison, wherein to humor some conceit in the words, the melody is broken, and the sense is interrupted in one part, and caught and supported by another, or a different sense is given to the words; or a piece for three or more voices, one of which leads and the others follow in the same notes.

Catch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To seize or lay hold on with the hand; carrying the sense of pursuit, thrusting forward the hand, or rushing on.

2. And they came upon him and caught him. Acts 6:1 .

3. To seize, in a general sense; as, to catch a ball; to catch hold of a bough.

4. To seize, as in a snare or trap; to ensnare; to entangle.

5. They sent certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. Mark 12:13 .

6. To seize in pursuit; hence simply to overtake; a popular use of the word.

7. He ran, but could not catch him companion.

8. To take hold; to communicate to.

9. The fire caught the adjoining building.

10. To seize the affections; to engage and attach to; as, to catch the fair.

11. To take or receive by contagion or infection; as, to catch the measles or small pox.

12. To snatch; to take suddenly; as, to catch a book out of the hand.

13. To receive something passing.

14. The swelling sails no more catch the soft airs and wanton in the sky. Trumbull.

15. To catch at, to endeavor to seize suddenly.

16. To catch at all opportunities of subverting the state.

17. To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.

Catch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Act of seizing; a grasp.

2. That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

3. 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.

4. That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.

5. Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

6. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

7. A slight remembrance; a trace.

8. A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

Catch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To attain possession.

2. 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.

3. To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

4. To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.

Catch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

8. To get possession of; to attain.

9. 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.

10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

Catch-basin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.

Catch-fly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Lychnis; campion.

Catch-meadow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

Catch-poll [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A bailiffs assistant, so called by way of reproach.

Catch-word [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Among printers, the word placed at the bottom of each page, under the last line, which is to be inserted as the first word on the following page.

Catchable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be caught.

Catchable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being caught.

Catchdrain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

Catched Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Catcher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who catches; that which catches, or in which any thing is caught.

Catcher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, catches.

2. The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.

Catchfly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

Catching [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Communicating, or that may be communicated, by contagion; infectious; as, a disease is catching

Catching [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Seizing; taking hold; ensnaring; entangling.

Catching [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Infectious; contagious.

2. Captivating; alluring.

Catching [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of seizing or taking hold of.

Catching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Catchment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

Catchpenny [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Something worthless, particularly a book or pamphlet, adapted to the popular taste, and intended to gain money in market.

Catchpenny [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.

Catchpenny [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Some worthless catchpenny thing.

Catchpoll [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A bailiff's assistant.

Catchup [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. CATCHUP ,

2. CATE, noun [ See Cates .]

Catchup [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Catsup

Catchwater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

Catchweed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Cleavers.

Catchweight [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.

Catchword [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

2. The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.

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Exodus 22:6

If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

Leviticus 17:13

And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

Joshua 2:5

And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”

Judges 21:21

And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

1 Kings 20:33

Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, and they quickly grasped at this word and replied, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” “Go and get him!” said the king. Then Ben-hadad came out, and Ahab had him come up into his chariot.

2 Kings 7:12

And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.

So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”

Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

Job 9:18

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Job 39:25

He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar— the shouts of captains and the cry of war.

Psalms 10:9

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

Psalms 35:8

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

Psalms 109:11

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Song of Solomon 2:15

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

Ezekiel 17:20

And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.

Ezekiel 19:3

And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:6

And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

Ezekiel 47:10

And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.