Definition of lap

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Lap (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

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Lap :: Lap (v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10..
Clap :: Clap (v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.
Slape :: Slape (a.) Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical.
Slapper :: Slapper (a.) Alt. of Slappin.
Tuet :: Tuet (n.) The lapwing.
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..
Lapidescence :: Lapidescence (n.) A stony concretion.
Lapper :: Lapper (n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.
Clearstarch :: Clearstarch (v. t.) To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin..
Obvoluted :: Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap..
Pulkha :: Pulkha (n.) A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Laplander :: Laplander (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.
Clap :: Clap (v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.
Dilapidated :: Dilapidated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilapidat.
Clacker :: Clacker (n.) One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill..
Infralapsarian :: Infralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.
Imbricate :: Imbricate (v. t.) To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface..
Preterlapsed :: Preterlapsed (a.) Past; as, preterlapsed ages..
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege..
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