Verb (used without object) : to seize on a rope. ,He must seize on a solution, however risky. ,The engine seized up from cold. From Dictionary.com.
Among them, this turgid prize-seizer from a writer identified as B. Waldorf. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 31, 2005 - August 6, 2005 Archives] Reference
In my part of the country it is so much the usual method for the tiger to seize by the nape of the neck, that a native, when asked if he is sure that it was a tiger and not a panther, always puts his hand to the back of his neck, and if he says that the animal was seized by the throat, we invariably assume that the seizer is a panther. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
He called his new creature Velociraptor mongoliensis to honor these inferred skills, for Velociraptor, means "quick seizer.". From Wordnik.com. [Dinomania] Reference
Always a disciple of hearty and strenuous living, he suggested more than casually his own famous character - the intrepid warrior, adventurer, and seizer of thrones, Conan the Cimmerian. From Wordnik.com. [The Conan Chronicles]
Timms refutes the legend that Kraus responded with stunned silence to Hitler's seizer of power: His career culminated in Third Walpurgis Night, a harsh polemic of Nazi ideology that has proved enduringly influential. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist] Reference
A veteran seizer is generally seamed with innumerable scars. From Wordnik.com. [The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon]
The end of nearly every good seizer is being killed by a boar. From Wordnik.com. [The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon]
I like to keep mine in the triple didgets b/c I fall so fast if I don't and I really don't want another seizer to take me to the ER!. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference
Watson v Strauss is close - Watson has more runs at a higher average - but Strauss shades it for that initiative-seizer at the Gabba. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Trott brings many virtues to England's No 3 position, notably the hunger to bat all day, but he is not an initiative-seizer; England would not have lost the Oval Test against. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The very best seizer would be spoiled if his master were a leetle slow in going in with the knife; and, on the other hand, dogs naturally shy of danger turn into good seizers where their master invariably leads them in. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Once upon a time I entered a vineyard to eat of its grapes; and, whilst so doing behold, I saw a falcon stoop upon a partridge and seize him; but the partridge escaped from the seizer and, entering his nest, hid himself there. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Ours will be the time of Billion dollar pharmaceutical empires of the nexiums and the beta blockers, when bad cholesterol counts or high blood pressure (possibly from other medications) were addressed with cocktails of potentially seizer inducing, liver, kidney failure causing toxins while heart damaging chemicals were sold for arthritis and we yet bought other chemicals to try to prevent heart disease. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Ideas - Comments] Reference
"His name shall be 'Nibiru' the seizer of the middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Babylonian Legends of the Creation] Reference
"the seizer," that being the meaning indicated by the root. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
In addition, debt and rent payments require a constant stream of income to avoid seizer of one’s belongings. From Wordnik.com. ["Island Hopping" to Distributism] Reference
Blazes, he observed indefinitely), grappled with the apron-seizer, permitting the ugly one to run away; and how he saved the bank, and captured his man, and consigned him to fine and imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
Now came the tug of war -- only one seizer!. From Wordnik.com. [The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon]
Remember the seizer of our. From Wordnik.com. [deseretnews.com - Top Stories] Reference
/labartu/,/ labasu/,/ ahhazu/ (the seizer),/ lilu/ and/ lilithu/ (male and female spirits of the mist), with their attendants. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
"Nibiru," i.e., "he who entered in," and the "seizer of the middle.". From Wordnik.com. [The Babylonian Legends of the Creation] Reference
This is generally, but wrongly, read/êkimmu/, and translated "the seizer," from/êkemu/, "to seize.". From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
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