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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Infectious; contagious.

Captivating; alluring.

Noun.

The act of seizing or taking hold of.

Catching bargain

(Law)

a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price.

Bouvier.

ppr.

Seizing; taking hold; ensnaring; entangling.

Adj.

Communicating, or that may be communicated, by contagion; infectious; as, a disease is catching.