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shingles |
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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