King James Bible Dictionary

Joshua 23:13; Job 18:10; Jeremiah 5:26

TRAP, noun

1. An engine that shuts suddenly or with a spring, used for taking game; as a trap for foxes. A trap is a very different thing from a snare; though the latter word may be used in a figurative sense for a trap

2. An engine for catching men. [Not used in the U. States.]

3. An ambush; a stratagem; any device by which men or other animals may be caught unawares.

Let their table be made a snare and a trap Romans 11:9.

4. A play in which a ball is driven with a stick.

TRAP, noun In mineralogy, a name given to rocks characterized by a columnar form, or whose strata or beds have the form of steps or a series of stairs. Kirwan gives this name to two families of basalt. It is now employed to designate a rock or aggregate in which hornblend predominates, but it conveys no definite idea of any one species; and under this term are comprehended hornblend, hornblend slate, greenstone, greenstone slate, amygdaloid, basalt, wacky, clinkstone porphyry, and perhaps hypersthene rock, augite rock, and some varieties of sienite.

TRAP, verb transitive To catch in a trap; as, to trap foxes or beaver.

1. To ensnare; to take by stratagem.

I trapp'd the foe.

2. To adorn; to dress with ornaments. [See Trappings.] [the verb is little used.]

TRAP, verb intransitive To set traps for game; as, to trap for beaver.

TRAPAN', verb transitive To ensnare; to catch by stratagem.

TRAPAN', noun A snare; a stratagem.

TRAPAN'NER, noun One who ensnares.

TRAPAN'NING, participle present tense Ensnaring.

TRAP'-DOOR, noun [trap and door.] A door in a floor, which shuts close like a valve.

TRAPE, verb intransitive To traipse; to walk carelessly and sluttishly. [Not much used.]

TRAPES, noun A slattern; an idle sluttish woman.

TRAPE'ZIAN, adjective [See Trapezium.] In crystallography, having the lateral planes composed of trapeziums situated in two ranges, between two bases.

TRAPE'ZIFORM, adjective Having the form of a trapezium.

TRAPEZIHE'DRON, noun [Latin trapezium and Gr. side.]

A solid bounded by twenty four equal and similar trapeziums.

TRAPE'ZIUM, noun plural trapezia or trapeziums. [Latin from Gr. a little table.]

1. In geometry, a plane figure contained under four unequal right lines, none of them parallel.

2. In anatomy, a bone of the carpus.

TRAPEZOID', noun [Latin trapezium.] An irregular solid figure having four sides, no two of which are parallel to each other; also, a plane four sided figure having two of the opposite sides parallel to each other.

TRAPEZOID'AL, adjective Having the form of a trapezoid.

1. Having the surface composed of twenty four trapeziums, all equal and similar.

TRAP'PINGS, noun plural [from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture.

Caparisons and steeds,

Bases and tinsel trappings--

2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.

TRAP'POUS, adjective [from trap, in geology. It ought to be trappy.]

Pertaining to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities.

TRAP'-STICK, noun A stick with which boys drive a wooden ball; hence, a slender leg.

TRAP'-TUFF, noun Masses of basalt, amygdaloid, hornblend, sandstones, etc., cemented.