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- Trepan - n. - A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
- Trepan - n. - A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
- Trepan - v. t. & i. - 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.
- Trepan - n. - A snare; a trapan.
- Trepan - n. - a deceiver; a cheat.
- Trepan - v. t. - To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
- Trepang - n. - Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also beche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug.
- Trepanize - v. t. - To trepan.
- Trepanned - imp. & p. p. - of Trepan
- Trepanner - n. - One who trepans.
- Trepanning - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Trepan