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A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law. (more info) 1. A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used

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A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law. (more info) 1. A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc. 2. Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding. A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. In the church's net there are fishes good or bad. Jer. Taylor. 3. Anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net.

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  • CAJOLERY
    A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
  • SNARE
    An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
  • SPRINGE
    A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
  • ENTRAP
    To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve 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
  • DECOYER
    One who decoys another.
  • INSNARER
    One who insnares.
  • CAJOLE
    To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
  • CATCHWORK
    A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
  • CATCHER
    The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
  • CATCHWORD
    The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
  • CATCH TITLE
    A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
  • ENTANGLE
    1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. 2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence,
  • DEVICEFUL
    Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
  • INVEIGLE
    To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton. (more info)
  • CATCHPENNY
    Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.
  • DECOY-DUCK
    A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. Beau. & Fl.
  • CATCHDRAIN
    A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
  • ENTANGLEMENT
    State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
  • ALLURE
    To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor
  • CATCHFLY
    A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.
  • SCATCH
    A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
  • BEAUCATCHER
    A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
  • CONY-CATCH
    To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.
  • WORD-CATCHER
    One who cavils at words.
  • TORPEDO CATCHER
    A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • BIRDCATCHER
    One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
  • SCATCHES
    Stilts.
  • OSSPRINGER
    The osprey.

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