Definition of lap

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Lap (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis..

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Weep :: Weep (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
Epipharynx :: Epipharynx (n.) A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects.
Beadsnake :: Beadsnake (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black..
Adularia :: Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone..
Imbricate :: Imbricate (v. t.) To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface..
Dilapidating :: Dilapidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dilapidat.
Laplander :: Laplander (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.
Lapdog :: Lapdog (n.) A small dog fondled in the lap.
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..
Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon..
Lambrequin :: Lambrequin (n.) A leather flap hanging from a cuirass.
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Lappish :: Lappish (n.) The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language..
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Peasweep :: Peasweep (n.) The pewit, or lapwing..
Laparocele :: Laparocele (n.) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..
Flick :: Flick (v. t.) To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots..
Lapps :: Lapps (n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia..
Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..
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