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Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. [Obs.] Nares.

on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. Nares.

An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. Nares.

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.

One who uses a trammel net. Nares.

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.

or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. Venice treacle. (Old Med.) Same as Theriac, 1.

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

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

A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool. [Obs.] Nares.

e body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.

Belonging to the Tubinares.

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.

Greenness; freshness. [Obs.] Nares.