2. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. "I trapped the
foe." Dryden.
3. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe.
See 4th Trap, 5.
Trap, v. i. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game;
as, to trap for beaver.
Tra*pan" (?), n. [OF. trappan. See Trap, and cf. Trepan a snare.] A
snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan. South.
Tra*pan", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trapanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Trapanning.] To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia.
Anson.
Tra*pan"ner (?), n. One who trapans, or insnares.
Trap"ball` (?), n. An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th
Trap, 4.
Trap"door` (?), n. 1. (Arch.) A lifting or sliding door covering an
opening in a roof or floor.
2. (Mining) A door 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 California species (C. Californica).
Trape (?), v. i. [See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.] To walk or run about in
an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Trapes (?), n. [See Trape.] A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy
woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Trapes, v. i. To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape;
to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Trap"e*zate (?), a. [See Trapezium.] Having the form of a trapezium;
trapeziform.
Tra*peze" (?), n. [Cf. F. trapèze.] 1. (Geom.) A trapezium. See
Trapezium, 1.
2. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used
by gymnasts.
Tra*pe"zi*form (?), a. [Trapezium + -form: cf. F. trapéziforme.] Having
the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.
Tra*pe"zi*um (?), n.; pl. E. Trapeziums (#), L. Trapezia (#). [NL., fr.
Gr. &?; a little table, an irregular four-sided figure, dim. of &?; a
table, for &?;; &?; (see Tetra-) + &?; foot, akin to &?; foot; hence,
originally, a table with four feet. See Foot.] 1. (Geom.) A plane
figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
2. (Anat.) (a) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first
metacarpal, or thumb. (b) A region on the ventral side of the brain,
either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the
posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Trap`e*zo*he"dral (?), a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a
trapezohedron.
Trap`e*zo*he"dron (?), n. [NL., from trapezium + Gr. &?; seat, base,
fr. &?; to sit.] (Crystalloq.) (a) A solid bounded by twenty- four
equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note
under Trisoctahedron. (b) A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal
system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are
common on quartz crystals.
Trap"e*zoid (?), n. [Gr. &?; trapezoid- shaped; &?; table + &?; shape,
likeness: cf. F. trapézoïde. See Trapezium.] 1. (Geom.) A plane
four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal,
or index finger.
Trap"e*zoid, a. 1. Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the
trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the
clavicle.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the
trapezoid line.