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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), usually written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. [1913 Webster] And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster] 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. [1913 Webster] I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low] [1913 Webster] 5. To engage in a discussion, converse. [PJC] 6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see {rap music}. [PJC] {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. [1913 Webster] A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rapt \Rapt\ (r[a^]pt), imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rapt \Rapt\, a. 1. Snatched away; hurried away or along. [1913 Webster] Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. "The rapt musician." --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. "Rapt in secret studies." --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rapt \Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt, a. See {Rapt}, a., and {Rapid}.] 1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton. [1913 Webster] 2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rapt \Rapt\, v. t. 1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton. [1913 Webster] 2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: rapt adj 1: feeling great rapture or delight [syn: {ecstatic}, {enraptured}, {rapturous}, {rapt}, {rhapsodic}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: rapt /ʀapt/ abduction; kidnapping