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noun

Snare 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.

Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble. "If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee."

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

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

Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; so called because (in order to render it more resonant) it has stretched across its lower head a catgut string or strings.

verb

Snare v. t. (past & past part. snared; pres. part. snaring) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger. "Lest that too heavenly form... snare them." "The mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers."

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Etymology of 'Snare'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snare" Quotes from Famous Books

... Haouse evidently comes from one of the lesser inland centres of civilization, where the flora is rich in checkerberries and similar bounties of nature, and the fauna lively with squirrels, wood-chucks, and the like; where the leading sportsmen snare patridges, as they are called, and "hunt" foxes with guns; where rabbits are entrapped in "figgery fours," and trout captured with the unpretentious earth-worm, instead of the gorgeous fly; where they bet prizes for butter and cheese, and rag-carpets executed by ladies more than seventy years ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... whose word never failed to his master, whose prey never slipped from his snare, waits thy step on the road to thy home! But thy death cannot now profit the dead, the beloved. And thou hast had pity for him who took but thine aid to design thy destruction. His life is lost, ...

— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.

... case it was mere trickery to ask the French to enter into such an agreement just when Sir John Fastolf was coming with artillery and supplies.[1206] It has been asserted that the Bastard was taken in this snare; but such a thing is incredible; he was far too wily for that. Nevertheless, on the morrow, which was Sunday and the 12th of the month, the Duke of Alencon and the nobles, who were holding a council concerning the measures for the capture of the town, were told that Captain La Hire was conferring ...

— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... since they possessed Scriptural authority for the statement that beauty was vain, and no God-fearing man would rank loveliness of face or form above the capacity for self-sacrifice and the unfailing attendance upon the sick and the afflicted in any parish. Beauty, indeed, was but too often a snare for the unwary—temptresses, he had been ...

— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow

... made a fool of me; but I suspected she would act in this way. You know her now. She is trifling with me, and very likely she is now revelling in her triumph. She has made use of you to allure me in the snare, and it is all the better for her; had she come, I meant to have had my turn, and to have laughed ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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