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Lap

noun

1.

The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.

2.

An area of control or responsibility.

3.

The part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs. Synonym: lap covering.

4.

A flap that lies over another part. Synonym: overlap.

5.

Movement once around a course. Synonyms: circle, circuit.

6.

Touching with the tongue. Synonym: lick.

verb

(past & past part. lapped; pres. part. lapping)

1.

Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another.

2.

Pass the tongue over. Synonym: lick.

3.

Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound. Synonyms: swish, swoosh, swosh. "The curtain swooshed open"

4.

Take up with the tongue. Synonyms: lap up, lick. "The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"

5.

Wash or flow against. Synonyms: lave, wash.

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"Lap" Quotes from Famous Books

... herself, buttoning her jacket probably as she ran. When I returned to the kitchen, Jess and Hendry were still by the fire. Hendry was beating a charred stick into sparks, and his wife sat with her hands in her lap. I saw Hendry look at her once or twice, but he could think of nothing to say. His terms of endearment had died out thirty-nine years before with his courtship. He had forgotten the words. For his life he could not have crossed over to Jess and put his arm round her. Yet he was ...

— A Window in Thrums • J. M. Barrie

... be hanged!' shouted Caper, breaking through the crowd, and running up-stairs two steps at a time, he nearly walked into the lap of a tall female model, named Giacinta, dressed in Ciociara costume, who was calmly seated on the stair-case, glaring at another female model, named Nina, who stood leaning against the door ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... admiration. Her little black beady eyes stared at the dancing lights that leapt from each burning log in a species of rapt absorption, and it was only semi-occasionally that she turned them back upon the work which lay upon her lap. Mrs. Lathrop (for of course it was Mrs. Lathrop) was matching scraps for a "crazy" sofa-pillow, and there was something as touchingly characteristic in the calmness and deliberation of her matching as there ...

— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner

... shower gold into her lap," said Mr. Carroll, "only for the accursed conventionalities ...

— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope

... LAP-EAR. At Washington College, Penn., students of a religious character are called lap-ears or donkeys. The opposite class are known by the ...

— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

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