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Webster's English Dictionary

catch

v. t. [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, catch. See Capacious, and cf. Chase, Case a box.] ()

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. (Judg. i. 6.)

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. (Mark xii. 13.)

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

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

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

The soothing arts that catch the fair. (Dryden.)

8. To get possession of; to attain. ()

Torment myself to catch the English throne. (Shak.)

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. ()

To catch fire, to become inflamed or ignited. -- to catch it to get a scolding or beating; to suffer punishment. [Colloq.] -- To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while speaking. [Colloq.] You catch me up so very short. Dickens. -- To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly. ()

v. i. 1. To attain possession. ()

Have is have, however men do catch. (Shak.)

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. ()

Does the sedition catch from man to man? (Addison.)

To catch at, to attempt to seize; to be eager to get or use. [To] catch at all opportunities of subverting the state. Addison. -- To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake. ()

n. 1. Act of seizing; a grasp. (Sir P. Sidney.)

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. (Addison.)

The common and the canon law . . . lie at catch, and wait advantages one againt another. (T. Fuller.)

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. ()

Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. (Shak.)

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

6. Passing opportunities seized; snatches. ()

It has been writ by catches with many intervals. (Locke.)

7. A slight remembrance; a trace. ()

We retain a catch of those pretty stories. (Glanvill.)

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