Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 105
Snapper (n.) (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
Snapper (n.) (Zool.) A snap beetle.
Snapper (n.) (Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
Snapper (n.) A string bean. [Colloq., U. S.]
Compare: Rosefish
Rosefish (n.) (Zool.) A large marine scorpaenoid food fish ({Sebastes marinus}) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also {red perch}, {hemdurgan}, {Norway haddok}, and also, erroneously, {snapper}, {bream}, and {bergylt}.
Note: When full grown it is usually bright rose-red or orange-red; the young are usually mottled with red and ducky brown.
Snapper (n.) (Football) The person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff" [syn: {center}, {snapper}].
Snapper (n.) Flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas.
Snapper (n.) A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends [syn: {cracker}, {snapper}, {cracker bonbon}].
Snapper (n.) Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots [syn: {snapper}, {Chrysophrys auratus}].
Snapper (n.) Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters.
Snapper (n.) Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite [syn: {common snapping turtle}, {snapper}, {Chelydra serpentina}].
Snapping () a. & n. from Snap, v.
Snapping beetle. (Zool.) See Snap beetle, under Snap.
Snapping turtle. (Zool.) A large and voracious aquatic turtle ({Chelydra serpentina) common in the fresh waters of the United States; -- so called from its habit of seizing its prey by a snap of its jaws. Called also mud turtle.
Snapping turtle. (Zool.) See Alligator snapper, under Alligator.
Snappish (a.) Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
Snappish (a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.
The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope. -- Jeffrey. -- Snap"pish*ly, adv. -- Snap"pish*ness, n.
Snappish (a.) Apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn: snappish, snappy].
Snappy (a.) Snappish. [Colloq.]
Compare: Snappish
Snappish (a.) Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
Snappish (a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.
The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope. --Jeffrey. -- Snap"pish*ly, adv. -- Snap"pish*ness, n.
Snappish (a.) Apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn: snappish, snappy].
Snappy (a.) Apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn: snappish, snappy].
Snappy (a.) Smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines" [syn: snappy, whipping].
Snappy (a.) Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy].
Snappy (a.) Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce].
Snappy (a.) Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy].
Snappy Video Snapshot
Snappy () (Registered trademark) A frame grabber for the IBM PC designed and marketed by Play, Inc.. (1997-07-11)
Snapsack (n.) A knapsack. [Obs.] -- South. Snapshot
Snapshot (n.) [ C ] (Informal) [ C ] (Photo) 照片，快照 A photograph.
Snapshot (n.) Commonly.
Snapshot (n.) An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" [syn: snapshot, snap, shot].
Snapweed (n.) (Bot.) See Impatiens.
Compare: Impatiens
Impatiens (prop. n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.
Snar (v. i.) To snarl. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Snare (n.) [C]（捕捉鳥、獸等的）陷阱，羅網；[P1] 圈套，誘惑；【醫】（勒除息肉和腫瘤用的）勒除器 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.
Snare (n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.
If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee. -- Shak.
Snare (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.
Snare (n.) (Med.) An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.
Snare drum, The smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because (in order to render it more resonant) it has stretched across its lower head a catgut string or strings.
Snared (imp. & p. p.) of Snare.
Snaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snare.
Snare (v. t.)（用陷阱等）捕捉；誘……入圈套；誘獲；謀得 To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.
Lest that too heavenly form . . . snare them. -- Milton.
The mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers. -- Shak.
Snare (n.) Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion" [syn: {trap}, {snare}].
Snare (n.) A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head [syn: {snare drum}, {snare}, {side drum}].
Snare (n.) A surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities.
Snare (n.) Strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit.
Snare (n.) A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose [syn: {snare}, {gin}, {noose}].
Snare (v.) Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: {trap}, {entrap}, {snare}, {ensnare}, {trammel}].
Snare (v.) Entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers" [syn: {hook}, {snare}].
Snare, () The expression (Amos 3:5), "Shall one take up a snare from the earth?" etc. (Authorized Version), ought to be, as in the Revised Version, "Shall a snare spring up from the ground?" etc. (See GIN.)
Snarer (n.) One who lays snares, or entraps.
Snarer (n.) Someone who sets snares for birds or small animals.
Snarl (v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
Snarl (v. t.) To embarrass; to insnare.
[The] question that they would have snarled him with. -- Latimer.
Snarl (n.) A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
Snarl (v. i.) （狗等）吠，嗥[（+at）]；咆哮[（+at）] To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds. "An angry cur snarls while he feeds." -- Dryden & Lee.
Snarl (v. i.) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. -- Dryden.
Snarl (n.) [C] 吠，嗥；咆哮；吼叫 The act of
snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
Snarled (imp. & p. p.) of Snarl.
Snarling (p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Snarl.
Snarl (v. t.) 咆哮著說；吼叫著表達 [（+at/ out）]；咆哮（或吼叫）得使 [O8] To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
Snarl (n.) A vicious angry growl.
Snarl (n.) An angry vicious expression.
Snarl (n.) Something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations" [syn: {tangle}, {snarl}, {maze}].
Snarl (v.) Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; "The sales clerk snapped a reply at the angry customer"; "The guard snarled at us" [syn: {snap}, {snarl}].
Snarl (v.) Make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise; "Bullets snarled past us."
Snarl (v.) Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: {entangle}, {tangle}, {mat}, {snarl}] [ant: {disentangle}, {straighten out}, {unsnarl}].
Snarl (v.) Make more complicated or confused through entanglements [syn: {snarl}, {snarl up}, {embrangle}].
Snarler (n.) One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
Snarler (n.) One who makes use of a snarling iron.
Snarling () a. & n. from Snarl, v.
Snarling iron, A tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives the requisite blow for producing raised work. See 1st Snarl.
Snary (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.
Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread. -- Dryden.
Snast (n.) The snuff, or burnt wick, of a candle. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Snatched (imp. & p. p.) of Snatch.
Snatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snatch.
Snatch (v. t.) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. -- Pope.
Snatch (v. t.) To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." -- Thomson.
Syn: To twitch; pluck; grab; catch; grasp; gripe.
Snatch (v. i.) To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
Snatch (n.) A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.
Snatch (n.) A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower. -- Tusser.
They move by fits and snatches. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Snatch (n.) A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.
We have often little snatches of sunshine. -- Spectator.
Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer. -- Shak.
Snatch (n.) A small fragment; "overheard snatches of their conversation" [syn: snatch, bit].
Snatch (n.) Obscene terms for female genitals [syn: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat].
Snatch (n.) (Law) The unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment [syn: kidnapping, snatch].
Snatch (n.) A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion.
Snatch (n.) The act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"; "he made a grab for the ball before it landed"; "Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away"; "the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion" [syn: catch, grab, snatch, snap].
Snatch (v.) To grasp hastily or eagerly; "Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone" [syn: snatch, snatch up, snap].
Snatch (v.) To make grasping motions; "the cat snatched at the butterflies."
Snatch (v.) Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped" [syn: kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch].
Snatch block () (Naut.) A kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
Snatch block (n.) A pulley-block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope.
Snatcher (n.) One who snatches, or takes abruptly.
Snatcher (n.) A thief who grabs and runs; "a purse snatcher."
Snatcher (n.) Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) [syn: kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher].
Snatchingly (adv.) By snatching; abruptly.
Snath (n.) The handle of a scythe; a snead. [Variously written in England snead, sneed, sneath, sneeth, snathe, etc.; in Scotland written sned.]
Snathe (v. t.) To lop; to prune. [Prov. Eng.]
Snattock (n.) A chip; a slice. [Prov. Eng.] -- Gayton.
Snaw (n.) Snow. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Burns.
Snead (n.) A snath.
Snead (n.) A line or cord; a string. [Prov. Eng.]
Snead (n.) United States golfer known for the graceful arc of his swing (1912-2002) [syn: Snead, Sam Snead, Samuel Jackson Snead].
Snead, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 748
Housing Units (2000): 388
Land area (2000): 5.438914 sq. miles (14.086721 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.019455 sq. miles (0.050389 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.458369 sq. miles (14.137110 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71280
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 34.115970 N, 86.391512 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35952
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Snead, AL
Snead
Sneak (v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. [Obs.] "[Slander] sneaks its head." -- Wake.
Sneak (n.) A mean, sneaking fellow.
A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks. -- Glanvill.
Sneak (n.) (Cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub. [Cant] -- R. A. Proctor.
Sneaked (imp. & p. p.) of Sneak.
Sneaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneak.
Sneak (v. i.) 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.
You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. -- Dryden.
Sneak (v. i.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
Sneak (a.) Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" [syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious].
Sneak (n.) A person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible.
Sneak (n.) Someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions [syn: prowler, sneak, stalker].
Sneak (n.) Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]
Sneak (v.) To go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot].
Sneak (v.) Put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner; "sneak a look"; "sneak a cigarette."
Sneak (v.) Make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift].
Sneak (v.) Pass on stealthily; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking" [syn: slip, sneak].
Sneak-cup (n.) One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sneaker (n.) One who sneaks. -- Lamb.
Sneaker (n.) A vessel of drink. [Prov. Eng.]
A sneaker of five gallons. -- Spectator.
Sneaker (n.) A type of soft shoe with a flat, pliable, typically rubber or other soft sole, and canvas-like upper, used in sports such as tennis, or for comfort. Called sneaker because they give no warning of one's approach. Usually used in the pl.
Sneaker (n.) A punch bowl. [Obs.] --Spectator.
Sneaker (n) A canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole [syn: gym shoe, sneaker, tennis shoe].
Sneaker (n) Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary].
Sneaker (n.) An individual hired to break into places in order to test their security; analogous to tiger team. Compare samurai.
Sneakiness (n.) The quality of being sneaky.
Sneakiness (n.) A disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously [syn: furtiveness, sneakiness, stealthiness].
Sneaking (a.) Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
Sneaking (a.) Not openly expressed; "a sneaking suspicion" [syn: sneaking(a), unavowed].
Sneaksby (n.) A paltry fellow; a sneak. [Obs.] "Such a bashful sneaksby." -- Barrow.
Sneaky (n.) Like a sneak; sneaking.
Sneaky (a.) Marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods" [syn: sneaky, underhand, underhanded].
Sneaky (a.) Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" [syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious].
Sneap (v. t.) To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.
Sneap (v. t.) To nip; to blast; to blight.
Sneap (n.) A reprimand; a rebuke.
Sneath (n.) Alt. of Sneathe.
Sneathe (n.) See Snath.
Sneb (v. t.) To reprimand; to sneap.
Sneck (v. t.) To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.
Sneck (n.) A door latch.
Snecket (n.) A door latch, or sneck.
Sned (v. t.) To lop; to snathe.
Sned (n.) Alt. of Sneed.
Sneed (n.) See Snath.
Sneered (imp. & p. p.) of Sneer.
Sneering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneer.
Sneer (v. i.) To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.
Sneer (v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
Sneer (v. i.) To show mirth awkwardly.
Sneer (v. t.) To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.
Sneer (v. t.) To treat with sneers; to affect or move by sneers.
Sneer (n.) The act of sneering.
Sneer (n.) A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt.
Sneerer (n.) One who sneers.
Sneerful (a.) Given to sneering.
Sneeringly (adv.) In a sneering manner.
Sneezed (imp. & p. p.) of Sneeze.
Sneezing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneeze.
Sneeze (v. i.) 打噴嚏 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.
Not to be sneezed at, Not to be despised or contemned; not to be treated lightly. [Colloq.] "He had to do with old women who were not to be sneezed at." -- Prof. Wilson.
Sneeze (n.) 噴嚏（聲）[C] A sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.
Sneeze (n.) A symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose [syn: sneeze, sneezing, sternutation].
Sneeze (v.) Exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose; "Pepper makes me sneeze."
Sneezeweed (n.) (Bot.) 【植】噴嚏草 A yellow-flowered composite plant ({Helenium autumnale) the odor of which is said to cause sneezing.
Sneezeweed (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing.
Sneezewood (n.) The wood of a South African tree. See Neishout.
Sneezewort (n.) A European herbaceous plant (Achillea Ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.
Sneezing (n.) 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 (a.) Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.
Snell (n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.
Snet (n.) The fat of a deer.
Snet (v. t.) The clear of mucus; to blow.
Snew (v. i.) To snow; to abound.
Snib (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb. [Obs.]
Him would he snib sharply for the nones. -- Chaucer.