Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Grasp \Grasp\, v. i.
   To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch;
   to struggle; to strive.

         As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by
         strength subdued.                        --Shak.

   {To grasp at}, to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander
      grasped at universal empire,