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bstance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

pertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

as a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.

ry : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A large, unwieldy person. [Obs.] Nares.

To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A pan for warming beds. Nares.

To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

To catch in a net; to insnare. Shak.

To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent. Gower.

this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.

jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. -- Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.

evious notice; as money on deposit. -- Call bird, a bird taught to allure others into a snare. -- Call boy (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a be…

To crimp; as, calvered salmon. Nares.

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft.

Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed. Women have been captivate ere now. Shak.

To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.