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mes of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

l for something hidden. [R.] Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them. Milton.

ty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! Longfellow.

To rescue; to deliver. That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him. 2. Tim. ii. 26.

s in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like. They grin, they shrug. They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug. Swift.

To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare. Beau & Fl.

and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.

iculty or distress. 'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden.

To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." Milton. When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw.

Tardiness. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.

A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural. As a Numidian lion, when first caught, Endures the toil that holds him. Denham. Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found. Dryden.

Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell. With cunning trains him to entrap un wares. Spenser.

Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares. Let their table be made a snare and a trap. Rom. xi. 9. God and your majesty Protect mine innocence, or I fall into The trap is laid for me! Shak.

A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan. South.

One who trapans, or insnares.

A snare; a trapan. Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. South.

glet. Her yellow hair was braided in a tress. Chaucer. Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare. Pope.

To insnare; to circumvent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse. Into the snare I fell Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. Milton.

A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs. [Obs.] Carew.