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as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton.

h. [Now obs. in spelling, and colloq. in pronunciation.] To ketch him at a vantage in his snares. Spenser.

A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. [Obs.] Fairfax. Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace. Chaucer.

A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare. [Obs.]

That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.

Tempting the appetite; dainty. "Lickerish baits, fit to insnare a brute." Milton.

To entangle; to insnare. We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance. Tennyson.

Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.

Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. "Limy snares.' Spenser.

ong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. Piers Plowman.

Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding. A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. In the church's net there are fishes good or bad. Jer. Taylor.

To fret and snarl about trifles. [Prov. Eng.]

To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

To insnare; to entrap. [Obs.] Johnson.

To bark or snarl, as a dog. [Obs.]

The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling. Bp. Hall.

Snarling; grumbling. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively. The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits. Lam. iv. 20.

Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.