, -aib, m., an end, a fragment; snab coinnle, a candle's end (B.).

, -ála, f., going at a snail's pace; coming unawares, as a fox (W. M.); cf. sneak.

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, m., a sloth; anything moving at a slow pace (W. M.).

, -aig, pl. id., m., hiccough; a snarl, a stammer; tá s. air, he has a hiccough.

, -a, pl. id., m., a snail or any slow creeper; a little fish found in pools and fissures when the tide is out; a very contemptible term as applied to a person.

, -aighe, a., slow, tardy, creeping, crawling snail-like.

, -adh, v. intr., I creep, crawl, or move slowly.

, -adh, v. intr., I hiccough.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a stutterer, a stammerer, a low, creeping fellow.

, -a, f., stammering, stuttering, trembling, shaking.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a slow, creeping motion; a short drink.

, -aighe, f., stuttering or stammering in speech; convulsive coughing; gloine a bhain s. as, a glass that caused him to cough convulsively (Tory).

, -aighe, f., equivocating, making excuses or evasive explanations (P. of Glenties,Don.).

, m., a magpie (O'R.); the wood-pecker (O'N.); O'R. gives snag = the wood-pecker.

, m., a wood-pecker (also snagaire darach). See snag breac.

, -e, f., act of hiccoughing; act of stuttering or stammering; also act of creeping or moving slowly.

, -bhairt, v. intr., I stammer or hesitate in speech.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m. See <<snagaire>>.

, -e, -meacha, f., a knot, a tie, a bond; a difficulty, a puzzle; an tSnaidhm, the name of a town in Kerry (Sneem).

, -mighe, a., voluted, bayed, knotty; knotted, interwoven, twisted (of the hair, etc.).

, -midhthe, m., the act of binding, tying, knotting, knitting together, uniting; marrying; union, conjunction.

, -aighe, a., knotty, binding.

, -a, f., knottiness.

, vl. snaidhmeadh, and snadhmadh, v. tr., and intr., I knot, unite, connect, marry, I join with (Le).

, p. a., knit, spliced, knotted, bound, connected (also snaidhmighthe and snadhmtha).

, -e, pl. id., f., a nit (nom. also snigh).

, -ghighe, a., creeping, crawling, trailing, scenting.

, vl. snághadh, v. tr. and intr., I creep, I crawl, I grovel, I trail, I truck.

, -ora, -oiridhe, m., a swimmer, a good swimmer.

, g. id., pl. -eanna, m., a single thread, a filament, a line; do gheárr Átrops snáithe a

, -theadh, v. tr., I use as kitchen (of a liquid); tá bainne a dh'fheidm orainn a snáitheamuist leis na préataidhibh, we need milk to use as kitchen with the potatoes (Don.).

, -a, f., kitchen condiment (of liquids only) (Don.).

, g. snáimh, m., the act of swimming, floating; the sea as an element to float on or swim in; a passage by sea, a voyage; a part of a river usually crossed by swimming or floating; the track of a snail on the ground (f., O'R.); beidh an snámh fada, the passage will be long (Om.); ar snámh, afloat; ag snámh, swimming, somet. floating; siubhail ar snámh, let us go for a swim (Gal.); siubhluigh a' snámh, id. (M.); ar a' tsnámh is common in Ulster poetry = on the sea (of a boat or any floating thing); cf. also dá dtuitfeá 'sa tsnámh, if you fell into the sea (U. song); cf. also ise 'sa tsnámh, she being in the sea (M. song); long do chur ar snámh, to float or launch a ship.

, -aighe, a., floating, swimming; prone by nature to swim.

, vl. snámh, v. tr. and intr., I swim, I float.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a low, mean, cringing fellow.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a float, a slow swimming or sailing; a creeping, a crawling.

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, m., a crawler, a loiterer.

, m., slow consumption, snámhghail, -e, f., a creeping, a crawling; a floating, a sailing.

, f., act of falling down, as water into a river (Kea.); freasa ag snighe is ag s. (Kea., T. S.).

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, m., a swimmer, a good swimmer; a crawler; a slow person; a thin, lanky, gritloss fellow (Don.).

, -e, f., snuff, powder (snaois is the word in M. generally, snaoisín in Con. and U.); a slice.

, g. id., m., snuff, a pinch of snuff, powder. See snaois.

, -aigh, m., a stout jolly fellow.

, -aighe, a., stout, hearty, jolly.

, -aip, m., a snatching, a sudden assault or seizure; a bite: thug sé snap orm, he broke in suddenly on me, he "barked" at me (in conversation) (A.).

, -adh, v. tr., I snap, snatch violently; I growl (A.).

, -aill, m., the iron staple in the bróigín into which the handle of a spade fits (N. Con.).

, -sa, m., gloss, ornament, polish, varnish, appearance, look; the green substance seen on the walls of old houses; a kind of light crust or scruff that accumulates on anything stale; scruff, rust, fur, dandriff, grain in wood; order, decency, elegance, neatness; tá snas an Bhéarla air, it has the look of being in English construction (U.).

, -aighe, a., glossed, varnished; neat, trim, elegant, regular, tidy.

, f. See <<snas>>.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a refiner, critic, trimmer, analyser.

, -a, f., the act of ornamenting, refining, analysing.

, -adh, v. tr., I colour, gloss, varnish.

, -áin, pl. id., a louse; a small insect (P. O'C.).

, -áin, pl. id., m., a blow, a stroke, a slap; snasán feirge, a fit of anger (P. O'C.).

, a., yellow, swarthy; gilt, golden.

, -aire, a., coloured, glossed, varnished; neat, elegant, decent, accurate, trimmed, lopped, dainty, ornamented.

, p. a., varnished, glossed, coloured; neat, trimmed, lopped, elegant.

, -a, f., gloss, polish, varnish; neatness, trimness, elegance.

, -sughadh, v. tr., I bedeck, I ornament, I trim, lop tastefully (as a hedge or tree), dissect, analyse, criticise.

, -áith, pl. id., m., thread, yarn; gabh-shnáth, housewife thread; snáth uama, thread of the seam (Kea.).

, -aithte, m., a supping or drinking by little and little; sipping.

, -thaide, pl. id. and -thaididhe, f., a needle; cró na snáthaide, the eye of a needle; obair shnáthaide, needlework; snáthad mhara, the needle-fish; snáthad lín, a net-needle; s. tuigheadóra, a thatcher's needle.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a needle-case; a sand-eel; a kind of fly or insect that flits about lighted candles at night (P. O'C.); a very thin person (Don.).

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a needle-maker.

, -adh, v. tr., I sup.

, -adh, v. tr., I thread or string.

, a., of fine, delicate threads.

, -a, m., snow. See <<sneachta>>.

, g. id. and -aidh, m., snow; sleet, hail, in cloich-sh., hailstones; súgán sneachtaidh, a rope of snow, an unstable bond; clocha s., hailstone (Don.).

, -taighe, a., snowy, snow-like, pertaining to snow.

, -mhla, a., snowy; snow-white, bright.

, indec. a., snowy.

, -a, f., snowiness.

, -dha, pl. id., f., a nit; in Gal. it is m., g. and pl. sneaidh.

, -aighe, a., full of nits, like nits, nitty.

, -e, pl. snidhe and sneadha, f., a nit. See <<sneadh>>.

, in phr. deamhan snig ann, he is quite dead, there is not a drop (of blood) in him (Con.); cf. <<sniugadh>>.

, g. id., m., act of dropping, dripping.

, -ghighe, a., dropping; tearful, mournful; also snightheach.

, vl. snigh, v. tr., I drop, I drip, I shed; I wring the hands.

, g. -a and -tha, pl. id., m., act of spinning, twisting, winding, twirling (e.g. a distaff), curling, twining.

, -a, m., sorrow, anguish, affliction, distress.

, -aighe, a., spinning, twisting, twining, tending to twist or twine.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a spinning, twisting, twining.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a spinner, a twister.

, -a, f., the business of a spinner or twister.

, vl. sníomh and -mhachán, v. tr., I spin, twist, curl, twine, wind.

, -artha, pl. id., a spindle (obs.).

, p. a., spun, twisted, twined, involved, united.

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, m., a spinner, a twister.

See <<snaoisín>>.

, -gtha, m., the last and richest part of an animal's milk; the act of milking the very last drop; "stripping" follows the ordinary milking, sniugadh follows the "stripping" (so in W. Ker., but sniugadh is genly. identical with "stripping").

, -adh, v. tr., I milk the very last drop, I drain completely.

See <<snuadh>>.

, -mhla, a., wellfeatured.

, a., white-hued, marble-coloured.

, a., dark-hued.

, f., complexion.

, -ghte, m., act of hewing, carving, slicing, lopping off; cutting into chips; reducing, filing down.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a hewer, a carver, slicer, loppcr.

, -a, f., act of hewing, carving, cutting into chips.

, -air, m., act of planing, fretting, smoothing, slicing, filing down; fig. act of contesting, fighting with, constantly meddling with; ná bí ag snoighgar leis na páistidhibh sin, do not contend or meddle with those children (Ker.).

, -ghe, v. tr. and intr., I hew, I carve, I slice, lop, chip, diminish, reduce, file down; I waste away: Is athtuirseach géar mo scéal, fáiríor, i ganfhios do'n tsaoghal le tréimhse am' shnoighe. Alas, sad and distressful is my story, for a time wasted away, unknown to all the world (E. R.).

, p. a., carved, cut into chips; delicately or finely cut; neatly carved; worn out, emaciated (as from sickness, etc.); táim snoighte ó obair, I am emaciated from work; neat, comely (pron. sneite in Der.).

See <<so-nuachar>>.

, g. -aidh and -adha, pl. id., m., hue, aspect, colour, appearance, complexion, visage.

, m., expression of countenance.

, -dhuibhe, a., dark-complexioned.

, -ghlaine, a., of pure countenance.

, -aire, a., well-looking, personable, comely, elegant.

, -ghile, a., of bright complexion.

See <<snoighim>>.

See <<snoighte>>.