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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.

Catch"a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being caught. [R.]

Catch"-ba`sin (?), n. 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. Knight.

Catch"drain` (?), n. 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.

Catch"er (?), n. 1.
One who, or that which, catches.

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

Catch"fly (?), n. (Bot.)
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.


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