Definition of trap

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Trap (n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock..

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Seal :: Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap..
Trepan :: Trepan (v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
Trappean :: Trappean (a.) Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.
Trapan :: Trapan (v. t.) To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
Intrapetiolar :: Intrapetiolar (a.) Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning..
Polyphony :: Polyphony (n.) Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint..
Ney :: Ney (n.) Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding.
Traphole :: Traphole (n.) See Trou-de-loup.
Trapezia :: Trapezia (pl. ) of Trapeziu.
Clip :: Clip (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree..
Icositetrahedron :: Icositetrahedron (n.) A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.
Tangle :: Tangle (n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies..
Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..
Understrapping :: Understrapping (a.) Becoming an understrapper; subservient.
Understrapper :: Understrapper (n.) A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
Noose :: Noose (v. t.) To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.
Chape :: Chape (n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap..
Trapezohedron :: Trapezohedron (n.) A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.
Tumpline :: Tumpline (n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
Gear :: Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
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