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n. sudden restriction on an activity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing thus caught and eaten. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ D. klip cliff + das badger, akin to G. dachs. ] (Zool.) A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa. It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman. Called also rock rabbit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small dog which is or can be fondled in the lap. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who does the bidding of another; a servile follower. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

prop. n. The chemical symbol for palladium, an element of the platinum group, of atomic number 46.
Syn. -- palladium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Slap + dash. ] 1. In a bold, careless manner; at random. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With a slap; all at once; slap. [ Colloq. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall. [ Colloq. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) (a) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated Antirrhinum majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon. (b) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stepmother. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. steópdohtor. ] A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Arch.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trapdoor spider (Zool.), any one of several species of large spiders which make a nest consisting of a vertical hole in the earth, lined with a hinged lid, like a trapdoor. Most of the species belong to the genus Cteniza, as the California species (Cteniza Californica). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make corrections or to add new information to (a document) so as to include the most recent information; as, we update the sales database every night; the book was updated and sold as a new edition. Used often of computerized data bases and documents. [ PJC ]

2. To inform (a person) of the most recent information concerning a topic; as, I updated the director on the status of the project. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The event or process of updating (in either sense); the information provided in the process of updating; as, I gave the director the latest update on the project; the update took over an hour. [ PJC ]

2. The document or database which results from a process of updating; and updated document or database; as, they distributed the update over the internet. [ PJC ]

v. i. To spring upward; to rise. [ R. ] Davies (Microcosmos). [ 1913 Webster ]