TREPANS
Noun
trepans
plural of trepan
Anagrams
• Napster, Partens, arpents, entraps, panters, parents, pastern, persant
Source: Wiktionary
TREPAN
Tre*pan", n. Etym: [F. trépan (cf. Sp. trépano, It. trepano, trapano), LL. trepanum, fr. Gr. Trephine.]
1. (Surg.)
Definition: A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
2. (Mining)
Definition: A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
Tre*pan", v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Trepanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Trepanning.] Etym: [Cf. F. trépaner. See Trepan a saw.] (Surg.)
Definition: To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
Tre*pan", n. Etym: [See Trapan.]
1. A snare; a trapan. Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. South.
2. a deceiver; a cheat. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. Macaulay.
Tre*pan", v. t.
Definition: To insnare; to trap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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