lap

1. n. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. Source: opted

2. n. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. Source: opted

3. n. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury. Source: opted

4. n. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing. Source: opted

5. n. The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below). Source: opted

6. n. The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader. Source: opted

7. n. One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2. Source: opted

8. n. In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game. Source: opted

9. n. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine. Source: opted

10. n. A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis. Source: opted

11. v. t. To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. Source: opted

12. v. t. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10. Source: opted

13. n. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth. Source: opted

14. n. To wrap or wind around something. Source: opted

15. n. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. Source: opted

16. n. 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. Source: opted

17. n. To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working. Source: opted

18. v. i. To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap. Source: opted

19. v. i. To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something. Source: opted

20. v. i. To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue. Source: opted

21. v. t. To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue. Source: opted

22. n. The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap. Source: opted

23. n. The sound of lapping. Source: opted

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