Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
Dryden.
4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it;
as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over
another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the
side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or
slivers for further working.
To lap boards, shingles, etc., to lay one partly over another. -- To
lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same
breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. Weale.
Lap, v. i. To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of
something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap;
the edges lap.
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap
over, transparent, like the wing of a flay.
Grew.
Lap (?), v. i. [OE. lappen, lapen, AS. lapian; akin to LG. lappen, OHG.
laffan, Icel. lepja, Dan. lade, Sw. läppja, L. lambere; cf. Gr. &?;, W.
llepio. Cf. Lambent.] 1. To take up drink or food with the tongue; to
drink or feed by licking up something.
The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as
they run along the shore.
Sir K. Digby.
2. To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the
tongue.
I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping
on the crag.
Tennyson.
Lap, v. t. To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a
quick motion of the tongue.
They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
Shak.
Lap, n. 1. The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take
anything into the mouth with a lap.