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n. A trapping device, often consisting of a noose, used for capturing birds and small mammals.

n. Something that serves to entangle the unwary.

n. A surgical instrument with a wire loop controlled by a mechanism in the handle, used to remove growths, such as tumors and polyps.

v. To trap with or as if with a snare. See Synonyms at catch.

n. Any of the wires or cords stretched across the lower drumhead of a snare drum so as to vibrate against it.

n. A snare drum.

n. A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.

n. A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion.

n. A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

n. A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.

n. A snare drum.

v. to catch or hold, especially with a loop.

n. 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.

n. Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.

n. The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

n. An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.

v. To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

n. A string; a cord; specifically, in a side-drum, one of the strings of gut or rawhide that are stretched across the lower head so as to produce a rattling reverberation on it.

n. A noose; a springe; a contrivance, consisting of a noose or set of nooses of cord, hair, wire, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled; a net; a gin.

n. Figuratively, anything by which one is entangled, entrapped, or inveigled.

n. In surgery, a light écraseur, consisting usually of a wire loop or noose, for removing tumors and the like.

To catch with a snare or noose; net.

Figuratively, to catch or take by guile; bring by cunning into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger; entangle; entrap.

To use snares; catch birds or other animals in snares.

In surgery, to cut off by means of a snare.

n. a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

v. catch in or as if in a trap

n. strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit

v. entice and trap

n. a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

n. something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares

n. a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities

"Notice the King James tone of her language, as in the use of the term "snare" which appears in Prov 7:23."

snared    snares    snaring   

tympan    membranophone    drum    string    tempt    entice    lure    trap    surgical instrument   

trap   

ensnare    snare drum   

snared    snaring   

trap    gin    insnare    entangle   

Adair    Aer    Altair    Astaire    Ayre    Baer    Bear    Blair    Cher    Clair   

wiles    lure    trap    misrepresentations    noose    hoax    trickery    artifice    temptation    subterfuge