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Snatched away; hurried away or along. Waters rapt with whirling away. Spenser.

A raptor. [Obs.] Drayton.

A ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.]

Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.

Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves.

Raptorial.

idity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.

An enthusiast. [Obs.] J. Spencer.

To put, or be put, in a state of rapture. [R.]

Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

In a rapturous manner.

A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully. [Colloq. or Dial.] -- Con*trap"tious (#), a.

Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured. Shak.

To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone.

One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.

Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.

A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.

An insect having four wings.

Having four wings.

A noun that has four cases only. Andrews.