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- English Word Snacket Definition See Snecket.
- English Word Snacot Definition A pipefish of the genus Syngnathus. See Pipefish.
- English Word Snaffle Definition 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.
- English Word Snaffle Definition To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
- English Word Snaffled Definition of Snaffle
- English Word Snaffling Definition of Snaffle
- English Word Snag Definition 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.
- English Word Snag Definition A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
- English Word Snag Definition 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.
- English Word Snag Definition One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- English Word Snag Definition To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- English Word Snag Definition To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.
- English Word Snagged Definition of Snag
- English Word Snagged Definition Full of snags; snaggy.
- English Word Snagging Definition of Snag
- English Word Snaggy Definition Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.
- English Word Snaggy Definition Snappish; cross; ill-tempered.
- English Word Snail Definition 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.
- English Word Snail Definition Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
- English Word Snail Definition Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
- English Word Snail Definition 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.
- English Word Snail Definition A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
- English Word Snail Definition The pod of the sanil clover.
- English Word Snail-like Definition Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.
- English Word Snail-like Definition In the manner of a snail; slowly.
- English Word Snail-paced Definition Slow-moving, like a snail.
- English Word Snailfish Definition See Sea snail (a).
- English Word Snake Definition Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
- English Word Snake Definition To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
- English Word Snake Definition 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.