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To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton.

One who insnares.

den rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces. Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. Milton.

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

To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

To catch in a net; to insnare. Shak.

To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent. Gower.

th this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft.

Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed. Women have been captivate ere now. Shak.

Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his words". Mark xii. 13.

Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

sbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 Tim. iii. 13. Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. What can 'scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Milton.…

To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy. Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Goldsmith.…

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

omplications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her…

To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.] Entoiled in woofed phantasies. Keats.

To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. Shak.