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the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak.

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.

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.

See Nunchion. Nares.

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

passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

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

To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Nares.

The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening. [Archaic] Nares.

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.

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

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

not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. [Obs.] Nares.

n skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an…

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

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

An idle, ragged person. Nares. Grose.

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.