SNACK'ET, SNECK'ET, noun The hasp of a casement.

SNAC'OT, noun A fish. [Latin acus.]

SNAF'FLE, noun A bridle consisting of a slender bit-mouth, without branches.

SNAF'FLE, verb transitive To bridle; to hold or manage with a bridle.

SNAG, noun

1. A short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a shoot; a knot. The coat of arms now on a naked snag in triumph borne.

2. A tooth, in contempt; or a tooth projecting beyond the rest.

SNAG'GED, SNAG'GY, adjective Full of snags; full of short rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots; as a snaggy tree; a snaggy stick; a snaggy oak.

SNAG'GED, SNAG'GY, adjective Full of snags; full of short rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots; as a SNAGGY tree; a SNAGGY stick; a SNAGGY oak.

SNAIL, noun

1. A slimy slow creeping animal, of the genus Helix, and order of Mollusca. The eyes of this insect are in the horns, one at the end of each, which it can retract at pleasure.

2. A drone; a slow moving person.

SNAKE, noun A serpent of the oviparous kind, distinguished from a viper, says Johnson. But in America, the common and general name of serpents, and so the word is used by the poets.

SNAKE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to wind a small rope round a large one spirally, the small ropes lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one. This is called also worming.

SNA'KEROOT, noun [snake and root.] A plant, a species of birth-wort, growing in North Am merica the Aristolochia serpentaria.

SNA'KE'SHEAD Iris, noun A plant with a lily shaped flower, or one leaf, shaped like an iris; the hermodactyl, or Iris tuberosa.

SNA'KEWEED, noun [snake and weed.] A plant, bistort, of the genus Polygonum.

SNA'KEWOOD, noun [snake and wood.] The smaller branches of a tree, growing in the isle of Timor and other parts of the east, having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a certain remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent. It is the wood of the Slrychnos colubrina.

SNA'KING, participle present tense WInding small ropes spirally round a large one.

SNA'KY, adjective

1. Pertaining to a snake or to snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.

2. Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful. So to the coast of Jordan he directs his easy steps, girded with snaky wiles.

3. Having serpents; as a snaky rod or want. That sanky headed gorgon shield.

SNAN'CEL, noun A rope to tie a cow's hind legs.

SNAP, verb transitive

1. To break at once; to break short; as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open, smaps the locks.

2. To strike with a sharp sound.

3. To bite or seize suddenly with the teeth.

4. To break upon suddenly with sharp angry words.

5. To crack; as, to snap a whip.

TO snap OFF,

1. To break suddenly.

2. To bite off suddenly.

TO snap ONE UP, TO snap ONE UP SHORT, to treat with sharp words.

SNAP, verb intransitive

1. To break short; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast or spar snaps; a needle snaps. If steel is too hard, that is, too brittle, with the least bending, it will snap

2. To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; as, a dog snaps at a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.

3. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words.

SNAP, noun

1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

2. A sudden eager bite; a sudden seizing or effort to seize with the teeth.

3. A crack of a whip.

4. A greedly fellow.

5. A catch; a theft.

SNAP'PED, participle passive Broken abruptly; seized or bitten suddenly; cracked, as a whip.

SNAP'PER, noun One that snaps.

SNAP'PISH, adjective

1. Eager to bite; apt to snap; as a snappish cur.

2. Peevish; sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or tartly.

SNAP'PISHLY, adverb Peevishly; angrily; tartly.

SNAP'PISHNESS, noun The quality of being snappish; peeevishness; tartness.

SNAP'SACK, noun A knapsack. [Vulgar.]

SN'AR, verb intransitive To snarl. [Not in use.]

SNARE, noun

1. An instrument for catching animals, particularly fowls, by the leg. It consists of a cord or string with slip-knots, in which the leg is entangled. A snare is not a net.

2. Any thing by which one is entangled and brought into trouble. I Corinthians 7:35. A fool's lip are the snare of his soul. Proverbs 18:7.

SNARE, verb transitive To catch with a snare; to ensnare; to entangle; to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity or danger. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Psalms 9:16.

SNA'RED, participle passive Entangled; unexpectedly involved in difficulty.

SNA'RER, noun One who lays snares or entangles.

SNA'RING, participle present tense Entangling; ensnaring.

SN'ARL, verb intransitive [This word seems to be allied to gnarl, and to proceed from some root signifyingto twist, bind, or fasten, or to involve, entangle, and thus to be allied to snare.]

1. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds; but it expresses more violence than grumble. That I should snarl and bit and play the dog.

2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude murmuring terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from with Virgil himself stands not exempted.

SN'ARL, verb transitive

1. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl the hair; to snarl a skain of thread. [This word is in universal popular use in New England.]

2. To embarrass.

SN'ARL, noun Entanglement; a knot or complication of hair, thread, etc., which it is difficult to disentangle.

SN'ARLER, noun One who snarls; a surly growling animal; a grumbling quarrelsime fellow.

SN'ARLING, participle present tense

1. Growling; grumblling angrily.

2. Entangling.

SNA'RY, adjective [from snare.] Entangling; insidious. Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread.

SNAST, noun The snuff of a candle. [Not in use.]

SNATCH, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive snatched or snacht.

1. To seize hastily or abruptly. When half our knowledge we must snatch not take.

2. To seize without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a kiss.

3. To seize and transport away; as, snatch me to heaven.

SNATCH, verb intransitive To catch at; to attempt to seize suddenly. Nay, the ladies too will be snatching. He shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry. Isaiah 9:20.

SNATCH, noun

1. A hasty catch or seizing.

2. A catching at or attempt to seize suddenly.

3. A short fit of vigorous action; as a snatch as weeding after a shower.

4. A broken or interrupted action; a short fit or turn. They move by fits and snatches. We have often little snatches of sunshine.

5. A shuffling answer. [Little used.]

SNATCH'-BLOCK, noun A particular kind of block used in ships, having an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

SNATCH'ED, participle passive Seized suddenly and violently.

SNATCH'ER, noun One that snatches or takes abruptly.

SNATCH'ING, participle present tense Seized hastily or abruptly; catching at.

SNATCH'INGLY, adverb By snatching; hastily; abruptly.

SN'ATH, noun The handle of a sythe.

SNATHE, verb transitive To lop; to prune. [Not in use.]

SNAT'TOCK, noun [supra.] A chip; a slice. [Not in use.]

SNEED, SNEAD noun A snath. [See Snath.]

SNEAK, verb intransitive [See Snake.]

1. To creep or steal away privately; to withdraw meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company; to sneak into a corner or behind a screen. You skulk'd behind the fence, and sneak'd away.

2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude murmuring terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarly at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.

SNEAK, verb transitive To hide. [Not in use.]

SNEAK, noun A mean fellow.

SNE'AKER, noun A small vessel of drink.

SNE'AKING, participle present tense

1. Creeping away slily; stealing away.

2. adjective Mean; servile; crouching.

3. Meanly parsimonious; covetous; niggardly.

SNE'AKINGLY, adverb In a sneaking manner; meanly.

SNE'AKINGNESS, noun Meanness; niggardliness.

SNE'AKUP, noun A sneaking, cowardly, insidious fellow. [Not used.]

SNEAP, verb transitive

1. To check; to reprove abruptly; to reprimand.

2. To nip.

SNEB, verb transitive To check; to reprimand. [The same as sneap.]

SNACK'ET, SNECK'ET, noun The hasp of a casement.

SNEED, SNEAD, noun A snath. [See Snath.]

SNEEK, noun The latch of a door. [Not in use.]

SNEER, verb intransitive [from the root of Latin naris, nose; to turn up the nose.]

1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular cast or countenance; 'naso suspendere adunco.'

2. To insinuate contempt by covert expression. I could be content to be a little sneered at.

3. To utter with grimace.

4. To show mirth awkwardly.

SNEER, noun

1. A look of contempt, or a turning up of the nose to manifest contempt; a look of disdain, derision or ridicule.

2. An expression of ludicrous scorn.

SNEE'RER, noun One that sneers.

SNEE'RFUL, adjective Given to sneering. [Not in use.]

SNEE'RING, participle present tense Manifesting contempt or scorn by turning up the nose, or by some grimace or significant look.

SNEE'RINGLY, adverb With a look of contempt or scorn.

SNEEZE, verb intransitive

To emit air through the nose audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irriatation of the inner membrance of the nose. Thus snuff or any thing that tickles the nose, makes one sneeze

SNEEZE, noun A sudden and violent ejection of air through the nose with an audible sound.

SNEE'ZING, participle present tense Emitting air from the nose audibly.

SNEE'ZING, noun The act of ejecting air violently and audibly through the nose; sternutation.

SNELL, adjective Active; brisk; nimble. [Not in use.]

SNET, noun The fat of a dear. [Local among sportsmen.]

SNEW, old preterit tense of snow.

SNIB, to nip or reprimand, is only a different spelling of sneb, sneap.

SNICK, noun A small cut or mark; a latch. [Not in use.] snick and snee, a combat with knives. [Not in use.]

[Snee is a Dutch contraction of snyden, to cut.]

SNICK'ER, SNIG'GER, verb intransitive [This can have no connection with sneer. the elements and the sense are different.] To laugh slily; or to laugh in one's sleeve. [It is a word in common use in New WNgland, not easily defined. It signifies to laugh with small audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.]

SNIFF, verb intransitive To draw air audibly up the nose. [See Snuff.]

SNIFF, verb transitive To draw in with the breath. [Not in use.]

SNIFF, noun Perception by the nose. [Not in use.]

SNIFT, verb intransitive To snort. [Not in use.]

SNIG, noun [See Snake.] A kind of eel.

SNICK'ER, SNIG'GER, verb intransitive [This can have no connection with sneer. the elements and the sense are different.] To laugh slily; or to laugh in one's sleeve. [It is a word in common use in New WNgland, not easily defined. It signifies to laugh with small audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.]

SNIG'GLE, verb intransitive [supra.] To fish for eels, by thrusting the bait into their holes.

SNIG'GLE, verb transitive To snare; to catch.

SNIP, verb transitive To clip; to cut off the nip or neb, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors.

SNIP, noun

1. A clip; a single cut with shears or scissors.

2. A small shred.

3. Share; a snack. [A low word.]

SNIPE, noun

1. A bird tha frequents the banks of rivers and the borders of fens, distinguished by the length of its bill; the scolopax gallinago.

2. A fool; a blockhead.

SNIP'PER, noun One that snips or clips.

SNIP'PET, noun A small part or share. [Not in use.]

SNIPSNAP, a cant word, formed by repeating snap, and signifying a tart dialogue with quick replies.

SNITE, noun A snipe. [Not in use.]

SNITE, verb transitive To blow the nose. [Not in use.] In Scotland, snite the candle, snuff it.

SNIVEL, noun sniv'l. Snot; mucus running from the nose.

SNIV'EL, verb intransitive

1. To run at the nose.

2. To cry as children, with snuffing or sniveling.

SNIV'ELER, noun

1. One that cries with sniveling.

2. One that weeps for slight causes, or manifests weakness by weeping.

SNIV'ELY, adjective Running at the nose; pitiful; whining.

SNOD, noun A fillet. [Not in use.]

SNOOK, verb intransitive To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Not in use.]

SNORE, verb intransitive [from the root of Latin naris, the nose or nostrils.] To breathe with a rough hoarse noise in sleep.

SNORE, noun A breathing with a harse noise in sleep.

SNO'RER, noun One that snores.

SNO'RING, participle present tense Respiring with a harsh noise.

SNORT, verb intransitive

1. To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as high spirited horses in prancing and play.

2. To snore. [Not common.]

SNORT, verb transitive To turn up in anger, scorn or derision, as the nose. [Unusual.]

SNORT'ER, noun One that snorts; a snorer.

SNORT'ING, participle present tense Forcing the air violently through the nose.

SNORT'ING, noun The act of forcing the air through the nose with violence and noise. Jeremiah 8:16.

SNOT, noun Mucus discharged from the nose.

SNOT, verb transitive To blow the nose.

SNOT'TER, verb intransitive To snivel; to sob.

SNOT'TY, adjective

1. Foul with snot.

2. Mean; dirty.

SNOUT, noun

1. The long projecting nose of a beast, as that of swine.

2. The nose of a man; in contempt.

3. The nozzle or end of a hollow pipe.

SNOUT, verb transitive To furnish with a nozzle or point.

SNOUT'ED, adjective Having a snout.

SNOUT'Y, adjective Resembling a beast's snout.

SNOW, noun [Latin nix, nivis; The Latin nivis, is contracted from nigis, like Eng. bow.]

1. Frozen vapor; watery particles congealed into white crystals in the air, and falling to the earth. When there is no wind, these crystals fall in flakes or unbroken collections, sometimes extremely beautiful.

2. A vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and fore-masts of a ship, and a third small mast just abaft the mainmast, carrying a try-sail.

SNOW, verb intransitive To fall in snow; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

SNOW, verb transitive To scatter like snow

SNOWBALL, noun [snow and ball.] A round mass of snow, pressed or rolled together.

SNOWBALL TREE, noun A flowering shrub of the genus Virburnum; gelder rose.

SNOWBROTH, noun [snow and broth.] Snow and water mixed; very cold liquor.

SNOWDEEP, noun [snow and deep.] A plant.

SNOWLESS, adjective Destitute of snow.

SNOWLIKE, adjective Resembling snow.

SNOWY, adjective

1. White like snow.

2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. The snowy top of cold Olympus.

3. White; pure; unblemished.

SNUB, noun A knot or protuberance in wood; a snag. [Not in use.]

SNUB, verb transitive [supra.]

1. To nip; to clip or break off the end. Hence,

2. To check; to reprimand; to check, stop or rebuke with a tart sarcastic reply or remark. [This is the same word radically as sneap, sneb, and is the word chiefly used.]

SNUB'-NOSE, noun A short or flat nose.

SNUB'-NOSED, adjective Having a short flat nose.

SNUDGE, verb intransitive [See Snug.] To lie close; to snug. [Not in use.]

SNUDGE, noun A miser, or a sneaking fellow. [Not in use.]

SNUFF, noun [allied to snub, neb, nib.]

1. The burning part of a candle wick, or that which has been charred by the flame, whether burning or not.

2. A candle almost burnt out.

3. Pulverized tobacco, taken or prepared to be taken into the nose.

4. Resentment; huff, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.

SNUFF, verb transitive

1. To draw in with the breath; to inhale; as, to snuff the wind.

2. To scent; to smell; to perceive by the nose.

3. To crop the snuff as of a candle; to take off the end of the snuff

SNUFF, verb intransitive

1. To snort; to inhale air with violence or with noise; as dogs and horses.

2. To turn up the nose and inhale air in contempt. Malachi 1:13.

3. To take offense.

SNUFF'BOX, noun A box for carrying snuff about the person.

SNUFF'ER, noun One that snuffs.

SNUFFERS, noun plural An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle.

SNUF'FLE, verb intransitive To speak through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose, or through the nose when obstructed. Some senseless Phillis, in a broken not, SnuffLing at nose.

SNUF'FLER, noun One that snuffles or speaks through the nose when obstructed.

SNUF'FLES, noun Obstruction of the nose by mucus.

SNUF'FLING, noun A speaking through the nose.

SNUFF'TAKING, noun One that takes snuff, or inhales in into the nose.

SNUFF'Y, adjective Soiled with snuff.

SNUG, verb intransitive [See Snake.] To lie close; as, a child snugs to its mother or nurse.

SNUG, adjective

1. Lying close; closely pressed; as, an infant lies snug

2. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice. At Will's lie snug and hear what critics say.

3. Being in good order; all convenient; neat; as a snug little farm.

4. Close; neat; convenient; as a snug house.

5. Slily or insidiously close. When you lay snug to snap young Damon's goat.

SNUG'GLE, verb intransitive [from snug.] To move one way and the other to get a close place; to lie close for convenience or warmth.

SNUG'LY, adverb Closely; safely.

SNUG'NESS, noun Closeness; the state of being neat or convenient.