Word Meanings - NOOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NOOSE)

• Snare Net
• trap
• gin
• noose
• device
• springe
• Trap
• Snare
• ambush
• stratagem
• pitfall

Related words: (words related to NOOSE)

• SNARE
  An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• AMBUSHER
  One lying in ambush.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• PITFALLING
  Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
• SNARER
  One who lays snares, or entraps.
• AMBUSHMENT
  An ambush. 2 Chron. xiii. 13.
• PITFALL
  A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
• DEVICEFULLY
  In a deviceful manner.
• STRATAGEM
  An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
• AMBUSH
  1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.
• NOOSE
  A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
• STRATAGEMICAL
  Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. Swift.
• DEVICE
  invention, fr. F. devis architect's plan and estimates (in OF., division, plan, wish), devise device , in OF. also, division, wish, last will, fr. deviser. See Devise, v. t., and cf. 1. That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance;
• SPRINGER
  The grampus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game. 2. A young plant. Evelyn. The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring. Hence: The bottom stone
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• OSSPRINGER
  The osprey.
• INSNARE
  Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
• ENSNARE
  To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
• CROSS-SPRINGER
  One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. Note:
• KLIPSPRINGER
  A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to
• BURNOOSE; BURNOUS
  cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, 1. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.