Definition of lap

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Lap (n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game..

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Tacamahaca :: Tacamahaca (n.) A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E. tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar..
Stag :: Stag (n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti..
Hibernaculum :: Hibernaculum (n.) A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales..
Elaps :: Elaps (n.) A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral..
Convolvulin :: Convolvulin (n.) A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties..
Lap :: Lap (n.) To wrap or wind around something.
Melaphyre :: Melaphyre (n.) Any one of several dark-colored augitic, eruptive rocks allied to basalt..
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
Delapsion :: Delapsion (n.) A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion..
Gill :: Gill (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
Slap :: Slap (n.) With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly..
Lap :: Lap (n.) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing..
Aesculapius :: Aesculapius (n.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician..
Slapping :: Slapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sla.
Flop :: Flop (v. t.) To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap..
Setter :: Setter (v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue..
Slapper :: Slapper (n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
Volapuk :: Volapuk (n.) Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879..
Mechoacan :: Mechoacan (n.) A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained..
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
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