Word Meanings - SNARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 catgut string or strings. (more info) schnur, OHG. snour a cord, snarahha a noose, Dan. snare, Sw. & Icel. snara, Goth. sn a basket; and probably also to E. needle. See Needle, 1. A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin. 2. Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble. If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee. Shak. 3. The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SNARE)

• Bait
• Morsel
• snare
• decoy
• enticement
• allurement
• inducement
• Mesh
• Intricacy
• entanglement
• involution
• Trap
• Snare
• ambush
• stratagem
• noose
• pitfall

Related words: (words related to SNARE)

• 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
• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• AMBUSHER
  One lying in ambush.
• PITFALLING
  Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
• ENTICEMENT
  1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
• DECOY-DUCK
  A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. Beau. & Fl.
• INVOLUTION
  The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication;
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• SNARER
  One who lays snares, or entraps.
• ALLUREMENT
  1. The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton. 2. That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.
• AMBUSHMENT
  An ambush. 2 Chron. xiii. 13.
• PITFALL
  A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
• DECOY
  To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy. Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest
• STRATAGEM
  An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
• MORSEL
  L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite; prob. akin to E. 1. A little bite or bit of food. Chaucer. Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. South. 2. A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
• INDUCEMENT
  Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to. Syn. -- Motive; reason; influence. See Motive. (more info) 1. The act of inducing, or the state of being induced. 2. That
• AMBUSH
  1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.
• INTRICACY
  The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy;
• DECOY-MAN
  A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
• NOOSE
  A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• INSNARE
  Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
• ENSNARE
  To catch in a snare. See Insnare.