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Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

acking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

an or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.

A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. A crooked pin . . . bailed with a vile earthworm. W. Irving.

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. Every one's bands were loosed. Acis xvi 26.

Wearing rich caparisons. Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow.

To beat with a strap. See Lace. [Obs.] Wright.

A strap which enters a buckle.

cies. (b) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

ants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

oved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the…

An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end.

Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. I embroidered for you a beautiful pair of braces. Thackeray.

A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash.

catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.