Definition of lap

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Lap (n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth..

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Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Bell :: Bell (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck..
Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern..
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like..
Repair :: Repair (v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune..
Blinker :: Blinker (n.) A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment..
Lap :: Lap (n.) To wrap or wind around something.
Pewit :: Pewit (n.) The lapwing.
Preterlapsed :: Preterlapsed (a.) Past; as, preterlapsed ages..
Flap :: Flap (v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing..
Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
Obvoluted :: Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap..
Claptrap :: Claptrap (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
Dilapidate :: Dilapidate (v. i.) To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate..
Lick :: Lick (v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
Slapeface :: Slapeface (n.) A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite..
Flap :: Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air..
Flapping :: Flapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fla.
Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
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