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To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.

To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan. Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia. Anson.

One who trapans, or insnares.

An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.

in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door. Raymond. Trapdoor spider (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large spiders which make a nest consisting of a vertical hole in the earth, lined with a hinged lid, like a trapdoor. Most of the species belong to the genus Cteniza, as the C…

To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.

A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.

See Trou-de-loup.

Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.

One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs. W. Irving.

That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak.