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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