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Word Meanings - TRAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned

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To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

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    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.
  • DEVICEFUL
    Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
  • SNARER
    One who lays snares, or entraps.
  • DEVICEFULLY
    In a deviceful manner.
  • NOOSE
    A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
  • 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.
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    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:
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    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.

 

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