immesh

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMMESH', verb transitive [in and mesh.] To entangle in the meshes of a net, or in a web. Observe whether the fly is completely immeshed. The spider used his efforts to immesh the scorpion.
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