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imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.

To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

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

to deck. After them followed two other chariots covered with red satin, and the horses betrapped with the same. Stow.

we have lived a cat and dog life of it." Coleridge. -- Cat block (Naut.), a heavy iron-strapped block with a large hook, part of the tackle used in drawing an anchor up to the cathead. -- Cat hook (Naut.), a strong hook attached to a cat block. -- Cat nap, a very short sleep. [Colloq.] -- Cat o' nine tails, an instr…

ng; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

es for refletion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

rtifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.

A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

e for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out; exhausted. [Colloq.]

Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.

nvolve 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.

To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

Covered or wrapped in flannel.

A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.

To wrap up; to conceal. [Obs.] All mote be said and nought excused, nor hid, nor forwrapped. Chaucer.