entrapping
111Century (1981 book) — Infobox Book | name = Century title orig = translator = image caption = author = Fred Mustard Stewart cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Signet Books release date = 1981 media type = Print …
112entrap — entrapper, n. entrappingly, adv. /en trap /, v.t., entrapped, entrapping. 1. to catch in or as in a trap; ensnare: The hunters used nets to entrap the lion. 2. to bring unawares into difficulty or danger: He entrapped himself in the web of his… …
113entrapment — /en trap meuhnt/, n. 1. the luring by a law enforcement agent of a person into committing a crime. 2. an act or process of entrapping. 3. a state of being entrapped. [1590 1600; ENTRAP + MENT] * * * ▪ law in law, instigation or inducement… …
114protist — protistan /proh tis teuhn/, adj., n. protistic, adj. /proh tist/, n. any of various one celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and… …
115United Nations — 1. an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945. Abbr.: UN Cf. General… …
116Yorktown, Siege of — (1781) American French land and sea campaign against the British that virtually ended the American Revolution. About 7,500 British troops under Charles Cornwallis occupied defensive positions at the coastal port of Yorktown, Va., on Aug. 1, 1781 …
117Agriculture and Food Supplies — ▪ 2007 Introduction Bird flu reached Europe and Africa, and concerns over BSE continued to disrupt trade in beef. An international vault for seeds was under construction on an Arctic island. Stocks of important food fish species were reported… …
118Amos — • Old Testament prophet Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Amos Amos † Catholic Encyclo …
119St. Thomas More — St. Thomas More † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Thomas More Saint, knight, Lord Chancellor of England, author and martyr, born in London, 7 February, 1477 78; executed at Tower Hill, 6 July, 1535. He was the sole surviving son of… …
120entrapment — en·trap·ment n 1: the action or process of entrapping entrapment is un American and has no place in law enforcement Tip O Neill 2: the state or condition of being entrapped; also: the affirmative defense of having been entrapped by a government… …
