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But the disturbing power prevails at length; and the united torrent bears onward in its might, boiling up from the bottom, whirling in many a vortex, flooding its shores with a malign deluge fraught with pestilence and fever, and burying forests in its depths, to insnare the heedless voyager.

To catch; to grasp; to insnare.

To catch in a net; to insnare.

To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

To besmear or insnare with birdlime.