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or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton.

Liable to lapse.

See Lopsided.

A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. "Laputan ideas." G. Eliot.

market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.

Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

The god of medicine. Hence, a physician.

An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

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

ging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [Written also burlaps.]

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell.

To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A bird; the flicker.

A person who claps.

To fight and scratch. C. Smart.