snacket
-see snecket.

snacot
-a pipefish of the genus syngnathus. see pipefish.

snaffle
-a kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb;
-- called also snaffle bit.
-to put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.

snaffled
-of snaffle

snaffling
-of snaffle

snag
-a stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
-a tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
-a tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
-one of the secondary branches of an antler.
-to cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
-to injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.

snagged
-of snag
-full of snags; snaggy.

snagging
-of snag

snaggy
-full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.
-snappish; cross; ill
-tempered.

snail
-any one of numerous species of terrestrial air
-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus helix and many allied genera of the family helicidae. they are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.
-any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh
-water and marine species. see pond snail, under pond, and sea snail.
-hence, a drone; a slow
-moving person or thing.
-a spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
-a tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
-the pod of the sanil clover.

snail
-like
-like or suiting a snail; as, snail
-like progress.
-in the manner of a snail; slowly.

snail
-paced
-slow
-moving, like a snail.

snailfish
-see sea snail (a).

snake
-any species of the order ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. see ophidia, and serpent.
-to drag or draw, as a snake from a hole;
-- often with out.
-to wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
-to crawl like a snake.

snake's
-head
-the guinea
-hen flower;
-- so called in england because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.

snake's
-tongue
-same as adder's
-tongue.

snakebird
-any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus anhinga or plotus. they are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills.
-the wryneck.

snaked
-of snake

snakefish
-the band fish.
-the lizard fish.

snakehead
-a loose, bent
-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on american railroads. it was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
-the turtlehead.
-the guinea
-hen flower. see snake's
-head, and under guinea.

snakeneck
-the snakebird, 1.

snakeroot
-any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.

snakestone
-a kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in scotland.
-an ammonite;
-- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake.

snakeweed
-a kind of knotweed (polygonum bistorta).
-the virginia snakeroot. see snakeroot.

snakewood
-an east indian climbing plant (strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.
-an east indian climbing shrub (ophioxylon serpentinum) which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents.
-same as trumpetwood.
-a tropical american shrub (plumieria rubra) which has very fragrant red blossoms.
-same as letterwood.

snaking
-of snake

snakish
-having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.

snaky
-of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.
-sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.
-covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand.

snap
-to break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
-to strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
-to bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
-to break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly;
-- usually with up.
-to crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
-to project with a snap.
-to break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
-to give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
-to make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything);
-- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
-to utter sharp, harsh, angry words;
-- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
-to miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
-a sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
-a sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
-a sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
-a sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
-a greedy fellow.
-that which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
-a sudden severe interval or spell;
-- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
-a small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
-a snap beetle.
-a thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger;
-- used chiefly in the plural.
-briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
-any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

snapdragon
-any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus antirrhinum, especially the cultivated a. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.
-a west indian herb (ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
-a play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. see flapdragon.

snape
-to bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

snaphance
-a spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached.
-a trifling or second
-rate thing or person.

snaphead
-a hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.

snapped
-of snap

snapper
-one who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
-any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the united states and on both coasts of tropical america.
-a snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.
-the green woodpecker, or yaffle.
-a snap beetle.

snapping
-of snap
-a. & n. from snap, v.

snappish
-apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
-sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

snappy
-snappish.

snapsack
-a knapsack.

snapweed
-see impatiens.

snar
-to snarl.

snare
-a contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.
-hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
-the gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.
-an instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.
-to catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

snared
-of snare

snarer
-one who lays snares, or entraps.

snaring
-of snare

snarl
-to form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
-to entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
-to embarrass; to insnare.
-a knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
-to growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
-to speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
-the act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.

snarled
-of snarl

snarler
-one who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
-one who makes use of a snarling iron.

snarling
-of snarl
-a. & n. from snarl, v.

snary
-resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.

snast
-the snuff, or burnt wick, of a candle.

snatch
-to take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
-to seize and transport away; to rap.
-to attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch;
-- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
-a hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.
-a short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.
-a small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.
-the handle of a scythe; a snead.

snatch block
-a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

snatched
-of snatch

snatcher
-one who snatches, or takes abruptly.

snatching
-of snatch

snatchingly
-by snatching; abruptly.

snathe
-to lop; to prune.

snattock
-a chip; a alice.

snaw
-snow.

snead
-a snath.
-a line or cord; a string.

sneak
-to creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
-to act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
-to hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.
-a mean, sneaking fellow.
-a ball bowled so as to roll along the ground;
-- called also grub.

sneak
-cup
-one who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass.

sneaked
-of sneak

sneaker
-one who sneaks.
-a vessel of drink.

sneakiness
-the quality of being sneaky.

sneaking
-of sneak
-marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.

sneaksby
-a paltry fellow; a sneak.

sneaky
-like a sneak; sneaking.

sneap
-to check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.
-to nip; to blast; to blight.
-a reprimand; a rebuke.

sneath
-alt. of sneathe

sneathe
-see snath.

sneb
-to reprimand; to sneap.

sneck
-to fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.
-a door latch.

snecket
-a door latch, or sneck.

sned
-to lop; to snathe.
-alt. of sneed

sneed
-see snath.

sneer
-to show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.
-to inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
-to show mirth awkwardly.
-to utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.
-to treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.
-the act of sneering.
-a smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.

sneered
-of sneer

sneerer
-one who sneers.

sneerful
-given to sneering.

sneering
-of sneer

sneeringly
-in a sneering manner.

sneeze
-to emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.
-a sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.

sneezed
-of sneeze

sneezeweed
-a yellow
-flowered composite plant (helenium autumnale) the odor of which is said to cause sneezing.

sneezewood
-the wood of a south african tree. see neishout.

sneezewort
-a european herbaceous plant (achillea ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.

sneezing
-of sneeze
-the act of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.

snell
-active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.
-a short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.

snet
-the fat of a deer.
-the clear of mucus; to blow.

snew
-to snow; to abound.

snib
-to check; to sneap; to sneb.
-a reprimand; a snub.

snick
-a small cut or mark.
-a slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.
-a knot or irregularity in yarn.
-a snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.
-to cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting.
-to hit (a ball) lightly.
-see sneck.

snicked
-of snick

snicker
-to laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
-to laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
-a half suppressed, broken laugh.

snickered
-of snicker

snickering
-of snicker

snicking
-of snick

snide
-tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods.

sniff
-to draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff;
-- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
-to draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
-to perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
-the act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.

sniffed
-of sniff

sniffing
-of sniff
-a rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.

sniffle
-to snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.

snift
-of sniff
-to snort.
-to sniff; to snuff; to smell.
-a moment.
-slight snow; sleet.

snifted
-of snift

snifting
-of snift
-a. & n. from snift.

snig
-to chop off; to cut.
-to sneak.
-alt. of snigg

snigg
-a small eel.

snigger
-see snicker.

sniggger
-see snicker.

sniggle
-to fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.
-to catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.

sniggled
-of sniggle

sniggling
-of sniggle

snip
-to cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.
-a single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.
-a small shred; a bit cut off.
-a share; a snack.
-a tailor.
-small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

snip
-snap
-a tart dialogue with quick replies.
-quick; short; sharp; smart.

snipe
-any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
-a fool; a blockhead.

snipebill
-a plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.
-a bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.

snipefish
-the bellows fish.
-a long, slender deep
-sea fish (nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.

snippack
-the common snipe.

snipped
-of snip

snipper
-one who snips.

snipper
-snaper
-a small, insignificant fellow.

snippet
-a small part or piece.

snippety
-ridiculously small; petty.

snipping
-of snip

snite
-a snipe.
-to blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle.

snithe
-alt. of snithy

snithy
-sharp; piercing; cutting;
-- applied to the wind.

snivel
-to run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
-to cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.
-mucus from the nose; snot.

sniveled
-of snivel

sniveler
-one who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.

sniveling
-of snivel

snivelled
-of snivel

snivelling
-of snivel

snively
-running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

snob
-a vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
-a townsman.
-a journeyman shoemaker.
-a workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.

snobbery
-the quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

snobbish
-of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.

snobbishness
-vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

snobbism
-snobbery.

snobby
-snobbish.

snobling
-a little snob.

snobocracy
-snobs, collectively.

snod
-a fillet; a headband; a snood.
-trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure.

snoff
-a short candle end used for igniting a fuse.

snood
-the fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.
-a short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
-to bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.

snooded
-wearing or having a snood.

snook
-to lurk; to lie in ambush.
-a large perchlike marine food fish (centropomus undecimalis) found both on the atlantic and pacific coasts of tropical america;
-- called also ravallia, and robalo.
-the cobia.
-the garfish.

snooze
-a short sleep; a nap.
-to doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.

snoozed
-of snooze

snoozing
-of snooze

snore
-to breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.
-a harsh nasal noise made in sleep.

snored
-of snore

snorer
-one who snores.

snoring
-of snore
-the act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. it is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.

snort
-to force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high
-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
-to snore.
-to laugh out loudly.
-the act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
-to expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.

snorted
-of snort

snorter
-one who snorts.
-the wheather;
-- so called from its cry.

snorting
-of snort

snot
-mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.
-a mean, insignificant fellow.
-to blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.

snotter
-to snivel; to cry or whine.
-a rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.

snottery
-filth; abomination.

snotty
-foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.

snout
-the long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
-the nose of a man;
-- in contempt.
-the nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
-the anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod;
-- called also rostrum.
-the anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
-to furnish with a nozzle or point.

snouty
-resembling a beast's snout.

snow
-a square
-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
-watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.
-fig.: something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
-to fall in or as snow;
-- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
-to scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

snow
-blind
-affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.

snow
-bound
-enveloped in, or confined by, snow.

snow
-broth
-snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor.

snow
-capped
-having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow
-capped mountains.

snow
-white
-white as snow; very white.

snowball
-a round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
-the guelder
-rose.
-to pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
-to throw snowballs.

snowballed
-of snowball

snowballing
-of snowball

snowberry
-a name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the symphoricarpus racemosus of the northern united states, and the chiococca racemosa of florida and tropical america.

snowbird
-an arctic finch (plectrophenax, / plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in europe and the united states, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. it is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.
-any finch of the genus junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially j. hyemalis in the eastern united states;
-- called also blue snowbird. see junco.
-the fieldfare.

snowcap
-a very small humming bird (microchaera albocoronata) native of new grenada.

snowdrift
-a bank of drifted snow.

snowdrop
-a bulbous plant (galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. it is cultivated in gardens for its beauty.

snowed
-of snow

snowflake
-a flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
-see snowbird, 1.
-a name given to several bulbous plants of the genus leucoium (l. vernum, aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.

snowfleck
-see snowbird, 1.

snowing
-of snow

snowl
-the hooded merganser.

snowless
-destitute of snow.

snowplough
-an implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.

snowplow
-alt. of snowplough

snowshed
-a shelter to protect from snow, esp. a long roof over an exposed part of a railroad.

snowshoe
-a slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot;
-- used by persons for walking on soft snow.

snowshoeing
-traveling on snowshoes.

snowshoer
-one who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.

snowslip
-a large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.

snowstorm
-a storm with falling snow.

snowy
-white like snow.
-abounding with snow; covered with snow.
-fig.: pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless.

snub
-to sob with convulsions.
-to clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
-to check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
-to treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
-a knot; a protuberance; a song.
-a check or rebuke; an intended slight.

snub
-nosed
-having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub
-nosed eel.

snubbed
-of snub

snubbing
-of snub

snudge
-to lie snug or quiet.
-a miser; a sneaking fellow.

snuff
-the part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
-to crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
-to draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
-to perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
-to inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
-to turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
-the act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
-pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
-resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.

snuffbox
-a small box for carrying snuff about the person.

snuffed
-of snuff

snuffer
-one who snuffs.
-the common porpoise.

snuffers
-an instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

snuffing
-of snuff

snuffingly
-in a snuffing manner.

snuffle
-to speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
-the act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
-an affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
-obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.

snuffled
-of snuffle

snuffler
-one who snuffles; one who uses cant.

snuffling
-of snuffle

snuffy
-soiled with snuff.
-sulky; angry; vexed.

snug
-close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
-close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
-compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
-same as lug, n., 3.
-to lie close; to snuggle; to snudge;
-- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
-to place snugly.
-to rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.

snugged
-of snug

snuggeries
-of snuggery

snuggery
-a snug, cozy place.

snugging
-of snug

snuggle
-to move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.

snuggled
-of snuggle

snuggling
-of snuggle

snugly
-in a snug manner; closely; safely.

snugness
-the quality or state of being snug.

sny
-an upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.

snying
-a curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.

snypy
-like a snipe.