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Lambard, 171. 2. Fig .: To catch, as in a snare or trap; to entrap, to inveigle, to entangle. "Insnare the wretched in the toils of law." Thomson: Autumn , 1,290. To insnare is to take in or by means of a snare : to entrap is take in a trap or by means of a trap ; to entangle is to take in a tangle or by means of tangled thread; to inveigle is to take by means of making blind, from the French aveugle =blind. In snare and entangle are used either in the natural or moral sense; entrap mostly in the natural, inveigle only in the moral sense. (Crabb: Eng. Synon .)