trape

v. i. To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [ Colloq. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Trape. ] A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Trapezium. ] Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. trapèze. ] 1. (Geom.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Trapezium + -form: cf. F. trapéziforme. ] Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Trapeziums L. Trapezia [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a little table, an irregular four-sided figure, dim. of &unr_; a table, for &unr_;; &unr_; (see Tetra-) + &unr_; foot, akin to &unr_; foot; hence, originally, a table with four feet. See Foot. ] 1. (Geom.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb. (b) A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., from trapezium + Gr. &unr_; seat, base, fr. &unr_; to sit. ] (Crystalloq.) (a) A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron. (b) A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]