Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRE-HEN'SILE, or PRE-HEN'SO-RY
PRE-HEN'SILE, or PRE-HEN'SO-RY, a. [L. prehendo, to take or seize; prehensus.]
Seizing; grasping; adapted to seize or grasp. The tails some monkeys are prehensile. – Nat. Hist. Enc.
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