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Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To express contempt or derision.

Skive :: Skive (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.

Dilapidate :: Dilapidate (v. i.) To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate..

Chase :: Chase (n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats..

Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..

Shellapple :: Shellapple (n.) See Sheldafle.

Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..

Lapidaries :: Lapidaries (pl. ) of Lapidar.

Lap :: Lap (n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2..

Lapstrake :: Lapstrake (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.

Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour..

Lapelled :: Lapelled (a.) Furnished with lapels.

Clap :: Clap (n.) Gonorrhea.

Lap :: Lap (v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10..

Knacker :: Knacker (n.) One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper..

Lapfuls :: Lapfuls (pl. ) of Lapfu.

Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..

Slapeface :: Slapeface (n.) A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite..

Languet :: Languet (n.) That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard..

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