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Variant of Clasp [Obs.] Chaucer.

A contrivance for clapping in theaters. [Obs.]

ether, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder.

Collapse. [R.] Johnson.

See Delapsion. Ray.

To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. [Obs.] Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.

A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

Furnished with a dewlap.

ss and good condition of; -- said of a building. If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.

Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper.

The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke.

One who causes dilapidation. Strype.

The lobe of the ear.

Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.

A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

A clearing away of stones. [R.]

Like or pertaining to the Elapidæ, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.

A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

e away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.