seize+upon
121Strathrusdale — infobox UK place country = Scotland official name= Strathrusdale gaelic name= Strath Rùsdail scots name= population = 30 (est.) os grid reference= NH6174 latitude=57.75 longitude= 4.40 map type=Scotland unitary scotland= Highland lieutenancy… …
122Nguyen Quyen — Nguyễn Quyền (Hán tự: 阮權; 1869–1941) was a Vietnamese scholar gentry anti colonial revolutionary activist who advocated independence from French colonial rule. He was a contemporary of Phan Boi Chau and Phan Chu Trinh, and one of Tonkin Free… …
123gobble — gobble1 /gob euhl/, v., gobbled, gobbling. v.t. 1. to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp. 2. to seize upon eagerly (often fol. by up): After being gone for so long, they gobbled up all the local news. v.i. 3. to eat hastily …
124possession — /peuh zesh euhn/, n. 1. the act or fact of possessing. 2. the state of being possessed. 3. ownership. 4. Law. actual holding or occupancy, either with or without rights of ownership. 5. a thing possessed: He packed all his possessions into one… …
125slip case — noun A removable protective covering for a book etc for, if there should appear a pocket book, which may be drawn up by a riband from its slip case . . . the child would seize upon these with delight …
126Lily — The Hebrew name shushan or shoshan, i.e., whiteness , was used as the general name of several plants common to Syria, such as the tulip, iris, anemone, gladiolus, ranunculus, etc. Some interpret it, with much probability, as denoting in the… …
127ætfón — sv/t7 3rd pres ætféhþ past ætfeng/on ptp ætfangen to seize upon, lay claim to, claim, attach …
128al-Kindi, Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq — (d. c. 252/866) Dubbed the ‘philosopher of the Arabs’, al Kindi is the first major figure in the Islamic philosophical tradition. A polymath who wrote extensively on medicine, mathematics, music, astrology and optics as well as philosophy, al… …
