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trappings

TRAP'PINGS, n. plu. [from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture.

Caparisons and steeds,

Bases and tinsel trappings--

2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.


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TRAP'PINGS, n. plu. [from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture.

Caparisons and steeds,

Bases and tinsel trappings--

2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.

TRAP'PINGS, n. [plur. from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

  1. Ornaments of horse furniture. Caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings. Milton.
  2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations. These but the trappings and the snits of woe. Shak. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. Affectation is part of the trappings of folly. Rambler.

Trap"pings
  1. That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.

    Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden.

    These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak.

  2. Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.

    Caparisons and steeds,
    Bases and tinsel trappings.     Milton.

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Trappings

TRAP'PINGS, noun plural [from trap. The primary sense is that which is set, spread or put on.]

1. Ornaments of horse furniture.

Caparisons and steeds,

Bases and tinsel trappings--

2. Ornaments; dress; external and superficial decorations.

These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Trappings of life, for ornament, not use.

Affectation is part of the trappings of folly.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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AFFIN'ITY, n. [L. affinitas, from affinis, adjacent, related by marriage; ad and finis, end.]

1. The relation contracted by marriage, between a husband and his wife's kindred, and between a wife and her husband's kindred; in contradistinction from consanguinity or relation by blood.

Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1Kings 3.

2. Agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.

3. In chimistry, attraction; elective attraction, or that tendency which different species of matter have to unite, and combine with certain other bodies, and the power that disposes them to continue in combination There are two kinds of affinity.

1. Affinity of aggregation, which is the power that causes two homogeneous bodies to tend towards each other, unite and cohere, as two drops of water, which unite in one.

2. Affinity of composition, which is the tendency of bodies of different kinds to unite and form new combinations of bodies with different properties. Such is the affinity which unites acids and alkalies, the results of which combination are neutral salts.

The operations of this principle are various. When heterogeneous bodies have mutually an equal attraction, it is called compound affinity. When one substance decomposes a combination of others, unites with one of them and precipitates the other, the power is called the affinity of decomposition. When bodies will not unite, but by means of a third, which enables them to combine, this is affinity by means of a medium.

Double affinity is when by means of four bodies, two decompositions and two new combinations are effected.

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