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To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. Shak.

The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.

Beyond the limits of a parish. -- Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv.

Not subject to physical laws or methods.

Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe.

. A trap for catching flies.

The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.

See Entrap. Spenser.

do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.…

A trap for catching trespassers. [Eng.]

Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. [Colloq.] A. Trollope.

The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.

Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.

A female satrap.

Satrapal. [R.]

The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality. Milton.

r that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap. Addison.

Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.