vap
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Translingual
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vap
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English
Etymology
See vapid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /væp/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
vap (uncountable)
- (obsolete) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: James Flesher, for Richard Royston , →OCLC:
- In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Antillean Creole
Noun
vap
Volapük
Noun
vap (nominative plural vaps)