3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lap \Lap\, v. t. [OE. lappen to fold (see {Lap}, n.); cf also
OE wlappen perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.]
1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something as to lap
a piece of cloth.
2. To wrap or wind around something
About the paper . . . I lapped several times a
slender thread of very black silk. --Sir I.
Newton.
3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
--Dryden.
4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly
cover it as to lap one shingle over another; to lay
together one partly over another; as to lap
weather-boards; also to be partly over or by the side of
(something); as the hinder boat lapped the foremost one
5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as
fleeces or slivers for further working.
{To lap boards}, {shingles}, etc., to lay one partly over
another.
{To lap timbers}, to unite them in such a way as to preserve
the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing.
--Weale.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shingles \Shin"gles\, n. [OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr L.
cingulum a girdle, fr cingere to gird. Cf {Cincture},
{Cingle}, {Surcingle}.] (Med.)
A kind of herpes ({Herpes zoster}) which spreads half way
around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with
violent neuralgic pain.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
shingles
n : eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe
neuralgia [syn: {herpes zoster}, {zoster}]
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