Trepan

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1. Noun

A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

2. Noun

A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

3. Verb

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.

4. Noun

A snare; a trapan.

5. Noun

a deceiver; a cheat.

6. Verb

To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
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