Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of lurking; skulking about; hiding; keeping from sight.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A lurking or skulking.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A lurking or skulking.

Etymologies

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See tapish.

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  • The cat lurks in impatient tapinage

    To pounce on a perch for her napinage.

    A bend in my waist

    Is most to her taste -

    Her preference is for lapinage.

    March 7, 2015

  • tapinage behind the tapestry

    March 7, 2015

  • It takes an age to tap in?!

    March 8, 2015

  • RE: morse (code)!?

    March 8, 2015