Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 106
Snib (n.) A reprimand; a snub. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Snib (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb. [Obs.]
Him would he snib sharply for the nones. -- Chaucer.
Snick (n.) A small cut or mark.
Snick (n.) (Cricket) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.
Snick (n.) (Fiber) A knot or irregularity in yarn.
Snick (n.) (Furriery) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.
Snick and snee [cf. D. snee, snede, a cut], A combat with knives. [Obs.] -- Wiseman.
Snicked (imp. & p. p.) of Snick
Snicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snick
Snick (v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting. -- H. Kingsley.
Snick (v. t.) (Cricket) To hit (a ball) lightly. -- R. A. Proctor.
Snick (n. & v. t.) See Sneck. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Snick up, shut up; silenced. See Sneck up, under Sneck.
Give him money, George, and let him go snick up. -- Beau. & Fl.
Snick (n.) A small cut [syn: notch, nick, snick].
Snick (n.) A glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat.
Snick (v.) Hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat.
Snick (v.) Cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek" [syn: nick, snick].
Snickered (imp. & p. p.) of Snicker
Snickering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snicker
Snicker (v. i.) To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
Snicker (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
Snicker (n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh. [Written also snigger.]
Snicker (n.) A disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort, snigger].
Snicker (v.) Laugh quietly [syn: snicker, snigger]
Snide (a.) Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods. [Slang, archaic]
Snide (a.) Derogatory in an insinuating manner; as, a snide remark. Snider rifle
Snide (a.) Expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one" [syn: supercilious, sneering, snide].
Sniffed (imp. & p. p.) of Sniff
Snift () of Sniff
Sniffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sniff
Sniff (v. t.) To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. -- M. Arnold.
Sniff (v. t.) To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
Sniff (v. t.) To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
Sniff (n.) The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
Sniff (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Sniffed or Snift; p. pr. & vb. n. Sniffing.] To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. -- M. Arnold.
Sniff (n.) Sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose [syn: sniff, snuff].
Sniff (v.) Perceive by inhaling through the nose; "sniff the perfume" [syn: sniff, whiff].
Sniff (v.) Inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row" [syn: sniff, sniffle].
Sniff (v., n.) To watch packets traversing a network. Most often in the phrase packet sniffer, a program for doing same.
Sniff (v.,
n.) Synonym for poll.
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polling
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Sniffing (n.) (Physiol.) A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.
Sniff (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Sniffedor Snift; p. pr. &
vb. n. Sniffing.] To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. -- M. Arnold.
Sniffle (v. i.) To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh. [Prov. Eng.]
Sniffle (n.) The act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) [syn: snuffle, sniffle, snivel].
Sniffle (v.) Cry or whine with snuffling; "Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!" [syn: snivel, sniffle, blubber, blub, snuffle].
Sniffle (v.) Inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row" [syn: sniff, sniffle]
Snifted (imp. & p. p.) of Snift
Snifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snift
Snift (v. i.) To snort. [Obs.] "Resentment expressed by snifting." -- Johnson.
Snift (v. i.) To sniff; to snuff; to smell.
It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters. -- Landor.
Snift (n.) A moment. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Snift (n.) Slight snow; sleet. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Sniff (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Sniffed or Snift; p. pr. & vb. n. Sniffing.] To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. -- M. Arnold.
Snifting () a. & n. from Snift.
Snifting valve, A small valve opening into the atmosphere from the cylinder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke; -- so called from the noise made by its action.
Snig (v. t.) To chop off; to cut. [Prov. Eng.]
Snig (v. i.) To sneak. [Prov. Eng.] Snig
Snig (n.) Alt. of Snigg
Snigg (n.) (Zool.) A small eel. [Prov. Eng.]
Snigger (v. i.) See Snicker. -- Thackeray.
Snigger (n.) See Snicker. -- Dickens.
Snicker (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Snickered; p. pr. & vb. n. Snickering.] [Written also snigger.] To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
Snicker (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
Snicker (n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh. [Written also snigger.]
Sniggled (imp. & p. p.) of Sniggle
Sniggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sniggle
Sniggle (v. i.) To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. -- Walton.
Sniggle (v. t.) To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare. -- Beau. & Fl.
Snipped (imp. & p. p.) of Snip
Snipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snip
Snip (v. t.) 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.
Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. -- Fuller.
The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. -- De Foe.
Snip (n.) A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. -- Shak.
Snip (n.) A small shred; a bit cut off. -- Wiseman.
Snip (n.) A share; a snack. [Obs.] -- L'Estrange
Snip (n.) A tailor. [Slang] -- Nares. C. Kingsley.
Snip (n.) Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
Snip (n.) A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping].
Snip (n.) The act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping, snip].
Snip (v.) Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off].
Snip (v.) Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back].
Snipe (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Sniped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sniping.] To shoot or hunt snipe.
Snipe, (v. i.) To shoot at detached men of an enemy's forces at long range, esp. when not in action; -- often with at.
Snipe at, To aim petty or snide criticisms at (a person) in his absence.
Snipe (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae,
having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
Note: The common, or whole, snipe ({Gallinago c[oe]lestis) and the great, or double, snipe ({Gallinago major), are the most important European species. The Wilson's snipe ({Gallinago delicata) (sometimes erroneously called English snipe) and the gray snipe, or dowitcher ({Macrohamphus griseus), are well-known American species.
Snipe (n.) A fool; a blockhead. [R.] -- Shak.
Half snipe, The dunlin; the jacksnipe.
Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe.
Quail snipe. See under Quail.
Robin snipe, The knot.
Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary.
Shore snipe, Any sandpiper.
Snipe hawk, The marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
Stone snipe, The tattler.
Summer snipe, The dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers.
Winter snipe. See Rock snipe, under Rock.
Woodcock snipe, The great snipe.
Snipe (v. t.) To shoot at (detached men of an enemy's force) at long range, esp. when not in action.
Snipe (v. t.) To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
Willet (n.). (Zool.) A large North American snipe ({Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.
Carolina willet, The Hudsonian godwit.
Snipebill (n.) A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.
Snipebill (n.) A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle. [Local, U.S.]
Snipefish (n.) (Zool.) The bellows fish.
Snipefish (n.) (Zool.) A long, slender deep-sea fish ({Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.
Sniper (n.) 【軍】狙擊兵 [C] A marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place.
Snippack (n.) (Zool.) The common snipe. [Prov. Eng.]
Snipper (n.) One who snips.
Snipper-snaper (n.) A small, insignificant fellow. [Colloq.]
Snippet (n.) A small part or piece.
To be cut into snippets and shreds. -- F. Harrison.
Snippet (n.) A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping].
Snippety (a.) Ridiculously small; petty. Snippety facts." -- London Spectator.
Snip-snap (n.) A tart dialogue with quick replies. [R.] -- Pope.
Snip-snap (a.) Quick; short; sharp; smart. -- Shak.
Snipy (a.) Like a snipe.
Snite (n.) A snipe. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Carew.
Snite (v. t.) To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle. [Obs. or Scot.]
Snithe (a.) Alt. of Snithy
Snithy (a.) Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind. [Prov. Eng.]
Sniveled (imp. & p. p.) of Snivel
Snivelled () of Snivel
Sniveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snivel
Snivelling () of Snivel
Snivel (v. i.) To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
Snivel (v. i.) To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly.
Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. -- Sir W. Scott.
Snivel (n.) Mucus from the nose; snot.
Sniveler (n.) One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.
Snively (a.) Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.
Snob (n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. -- Thackeray.
Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. -- R. G. White.
Snob (n.) (Eng. Univ.) A townsman. [Canf]
Snob (n.) A journeyman shoemaker. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Snob (n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" -- De Quincey.
Snob (n.) A person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob, prig, snot, snoot].
Snobbery (n.) The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.
Snobbery (n.) The trait of condescending to those of lower social status [syn: snobbery, snobbism, snobbishness].
Snobbish (a.) 充紳士氣派的；勢利眼的 Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious. -- {Snob"bish*ly}, adv.
Snobbish (a.) Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior [syn: {clannish}, {cliquish}, {clubby}, {snobbish}, {snobby}].
Snobbishness (n.) Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.
Snobbishness (n.) The trait of condescending to those of lower social status [syn: snobbery, snobbism, snobbishness].
Snobbism (n.) Snobbery.
Snobbism (n.) The trait of condescending to those of lower social status [syn: snobbery, snobbism, snobbishness].
Snobby (a.) Snobbish. [R.] -- E. B. Ramsay.
Snobby (a.) Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior [syn: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby].
Snobling (n.) A little snob. [Jocose] -- Thackeray.
Snobocracy (n.) Snobs, collectively. [Hybrid & Recent] -- C. Kingsley.
Snod (n.) A fillet; a headband; a snood. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Snod (a.) Trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Snoff (n.) (Mining) A short candle end used for igniting a fuse. -- Raymond.
Snood (n.) The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character. [Scot.]
And seldom was a snood amid Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. -- Sir W. Scott.
Snood (n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
Snood (v. t.) To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood. [Scot.]
Snood (n.) An ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head.
Snooded (a.) Wearing or having a snood. "The snooded daughter." -- Whittier.
Snook (v. i.) To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Obs.]
Snook (n.) (Zool.) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo.
Snook (n.) The cobia.
Snook (n.) The garfish.
Compare: Robalo
Robalo (n.) Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidae, esp. the largest species ({Oxylabrax undecimalis, syn. Centropomus undecimalis), A valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called.
Snook (n.) Large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike.
Snook, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 568
Housing Units (2000): 252
Land area (2000): 2.010121 sq. miles (5.206189 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003327 sq. miles (0.008617 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.013448 sq. miles (5.214806 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68576
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.490162 N, 96.469804 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Snook
Snool (v. t.) To dominate or bully (someone).
Snool (v. i.) To cringe or cower.
Snool (n.) A mean, wretched person; a bully.
Snool (n.) A servile person who submits tamely to oppression.
Snool (n.) (pl. -s) (Scottish) A cringing person.
Snool To "Snool" - as in the art of "Snooling" - is to stealthily place your penis into a sexual partner's mouth, while they are sleeping.
A "failed snool" is when the subject awakens, usually inflicting severe pain on your manhood in the process.
"Speed snooling" is a sport, where one snools as many people as possible in a set amount of time.
"Even though I enjoyed being snooled, I opened my eyes at the last second so that jake knew he had failed to snool me!"
Snooze (n.) A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]