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features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares.

A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Nares.

An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.

Again; afterwards; soon; quickly. [Obs.] I wold never eft comen into the snare. Spenser.

lications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her to…

To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.] Entoiled in woofed phantasies. Keats.

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.

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

To stammer. [Obs.] Nares.

the short run before a leap. [Obs.] Nares.

To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. Nares. To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.

A trap or snare. [Obs.] To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton. Constructive fraud (Law), an act, statement, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such. Mozley & W. -- Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end,…

A confection of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. Chaucer. Spenser.

anner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction. They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line. Thomson. Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away. Shak.

A snare; a gin. [Obs.] Like a bird that hasteth to his grin. Remedy of Love.

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.

To lay snares for rabbits. Huloet.

A countryman; a rustic; a clown. [Obs.] Nares.

A snare; a trap. [R.] Shak.