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To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber. "Hampered nerves." Blackmore. A lion hampered in a net. L'Estrange. They hamper and entangle our souls. Tillotson.

Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] Cudworth.

To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch. Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retairy versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. Coleridge.

To deceive; to entice; to lure. [Obs.] The devil insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller.

To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper.

y as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton.

Tempting the appetite; dainty. "Lickerish baits, fit to insnare a brute." Milton.

To entangle; to insnare. We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance. Tennyson.

Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.

To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

To insnare; to entrap. [Obs.] Johnson.

To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger. Lest that too heavenly form . . . snare them. Milton. The mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers. Shak.

To embarrass; to insnare. [The] question that they would have snarled him with. Latimer.

To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare. Beau & Fl.

To catch in a springe; to insnare. [R.]

To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." Milton. When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw.

Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. "I trapped the foe." Dryden.

To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan. Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia. Anson.