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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A brief sleep, often during the day.
2. v. To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.
3. v. To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard: The civil unrest caught the police napping.
4. n. A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
5. v. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
6. v. To pour or put a sauce or gravy over (a cooked dish): "a stuffed veal chop napped with an elegant Port sauce” ( Jay Jacobs).
7. n. A card game that resembles whist.
8. n. The highest bid in this game, announcing the intention to win five tricks, the maximum number in a hand. Also called napoleon.
9. n. See napoleon.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To have a short sleep; be drowsy.
2. To detect in the very act: hence the phrase in the quotation.
3. n. A short sleep.
4. n. The woolly or villous substance on the surface of cloth, felt, or other fabric. It is of many varieties, as the uniform short pile of velvet, the knotted pile of frieze and other heavy water proof cloths, etc. Compare pile.
5. n. Some covering resembling the nap of cloth.
6. n. A felted cloth used in polishing glass, marble, etc.
7. n. plural The loops of the warp in uncut velvet, which, when cut, form tho pile.
8. n. Dress; form; presentation.
9. To raise or put a nap on.
10. n. A beaker.
11. n. A knob; a protuberance; the top of a hill.
12. To seize; grasp.
13. To strike.
14. To cheat.
15. n. An abbreviated form of napoleon, 2.

Wiktionary

1. n. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
2. n. A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
3. n. A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts best tips.
4. n. A card game in which players take tricks; properly term
5. v. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
6. v. To be off one's guard.
7. v. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
8. v. To grab; to nab.
9. v. To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
2. v. To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared.
3. n. A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
4. n. Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile.
5. n. The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
6. v. To raise, or put, a nap on.
7. n. Same as napoleon, 1, below.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
2. n. a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
3. v. take a siesta
4. n. a period of time spent sleeping
5. n. a soft or fuzzy surface texture
6. n. sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)