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To SNARL, v. n. [snarren, Teut.] To growl as an angry 
animal. 
What! were you snarling all before I came. 
Ready to catch each other by the throat. 
And turn you all your hatred now on me ? Shakspeare. 
An angry cur 
Snarls while he feeds. Dry den and Lee. 
To speak roughly; to talk in rude terms.—'Tis malicious 
and unmannerly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from 
which Virgil himself stands not exempted. Dryden. 
To SNARL, v. a. To entangle, to embarrass. Unused. 
From her back her garments she did teare. 
And from her head oft rent her snarled heare. Spenser. 
Confused snarled consciences render it difficult to pull out 
thread by thread. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
SNA'RLER, s. One who snarls; a growling, surly, quar¬ 
relsome, insulting fellow. 
SNA'RY, adj. Entangling; insidious.—Spiders in the 
vault their snary webs have spread. Dryden. 
SNAST, s. The snuff of a candle. Unused. —-It first 
burned fair, till some part of the candle was consumed, and 
the sawdust gathering about the snasts; but then it made the 
snast big and long, and burn duskishly, and the candle 
wasted in half the time of the wax pure. Bacon. 
To SNATCH, v. a. [snacken , Teut.] To seize any 
thing hastily. 
Life’s stream hurries all too fast: 
In vain sedate reflections we would make. 
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope. 
To transport or carry suddenly.—He had scarce performed 
any part of the office of a bishop in the diocese of London, 
when he was snatched from thence, and promoted to Can¬ 
terbury. Clarendon. 
Oh nature! 
Inrich me with the knowledge of thy works. 
Snatch me to heaven. Thompson. 
To SNATCH, v. n. To bite, or catch eagerly at some¬ 
thing.—Lords will not let me: if I had a monopoly of fools, 
they would have part on’t; nay, the ladies too will be snatch¬ 
ing. Shakspeare. 
SNATCH, s. A hasty catch. A short fit of vigorous 
action. 
After a shower to weeding a snatch ; 
More easily weed with the root to dispatch. Tusser. 
A small part of any thing; a broken part. 
She chaunted snatches of old tunes. 
As one incapable of her own distress. Shakspeare. 
A broken or interrupted action; a short fit. 
The snatches in his voice. 
And burst of speaking, were as his. Shakspeare. 
A quip ; a shuffling answer.—Come, leave your snatches, 
yield me a direct answer. Shakspeare. 
SNA'TCHER, s. One that snatches, or takes any thing 
in haste. 
They of those marches 
Shall be a wall sufficient to defend 
Our inland from the pilfering borderers. 
-We do not mean the coursing snatchers only. 
But fear the main intendment of the Scot. Shakspeare. 
SNA'TCHINGLY, adv. Hastilywith interruption. 
To SNATHE, v. a. To prune ; to lop. Unused. 
SNATTOCK, s. A chip; a slice; a cutting. 
SNAVE, a parish of England, in Kent; 4§ miles north¬ 
west of New Romney. 
SNAYERS (Peter), a painter of very considerable merit 
in almost every branch, but particularly in battles, huntings 
and landscapes. He was born at Antwerp in 1593, and 
was a disciple of Henry van Balen. He was held in great 
estimation by the archduke Albert, who patronized him, ap¬ 
pointed him his painter, and sent several of his pictures into 
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Spain. Besides this superior encouragement, he was em¬ 
ployed for many of the churcfies in the Netherlands, and 
his battle-pieces are to be found in all the most choice col¬ 
lections of that country. Reubens and Vandyck honoured 
them with their approbation; and the latter painted the 
portrait of Snayers among the eminent artists of the day. 
He died in 1670, aged 77. 
SNEADE, a township of England, in Worcestershire; 5j 
miles south-west of Bewdley. 
To SNEAK, v. n. [pnican, to creep. Sax.] To creep 
slyly ; to come or go as if afraid to be seen. 
Once the eagle, England, being in prey, 
To her uuguarded nest the weazel Scot, 
Comes sneaking, aud sucks her princely eggs. Shakspeare. 
To behave with meanness and servility; to crouch; to 
truckle. 
When int’rest calls off all her sneaking train. 
When all the oblig’d desert, and all the vain, 
She waifs, or to the scaffold, or the cell, 
When the last lingering friend has bid farewell. Pope. 
To SNEAK, v. a. To hide; to conceal.—Some sins 
dare the world in open defiance, yet this [slander] lurks, 
and sneaks its head. Wake. 
SNEAK, s. A sneaking fellow. 
SNEAK-CUP. See Sneakup. 
SNE'AKEIt, s. A small vessel of drink. A sneaker of 
punch is a term still used in several places for a small bowl. 
—I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons 
about a sneaker of five gallons! Spectator. 
SNE'AKING, part. adj. Servile; mean; low. 
When the smart dialogue grows rich, 
With sneaking dog, and ugly bitch. Rowe. 
Covetous; niggardly; meanly parsimonious. 
SNE'AKINGLY, adj. Meanly; servilely. 
Do all things like a man, not sneakingly : 
Think the king sees thee still. Herbert. 
In a covetous manner. 
SNE'AKINGNESS, s. Niggardliness. Meanness; piti¬ 
fulness.—A sneakingness which so implies a guilt. Boyle. 
SNE'AKSBY, s. A paltry fellow; a cowardly, sneak¬ 
ing fellow.—A demure sneaksby, a clownish singularist. 
Barrow. 
SNE'AKUP, s, A cowardly, creeping, insidious scound¬ 
rel. Obsolete. — Sneak-cup is the word as given by the mo¬ 
dern editors of Shakspeare, with the explanation of “ one 
who takes his glass in a sneaking manner.” Notes on Twelfth 
Night.—The prince is a jack, a sneakup; and if he were 
here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he would say so. 
Shakspeare. 
To SNEAP, v. a. [from the Icel. sneipa, contumelia af- 
ficere.] To reprimand ; to check. 
Life that’s here. 
When into it the soul doth closely wind, 
Is often sneap'd by anguish and by fear. ore. 
To nip. 
What may 
Breed upon our absence, may there blow 
No sneaping winds at home. Shakspeare. 
SNEAP, s. A reprimand; a check.—My lord, I will 
not undergo this sneap without reply: you call honourable 
boldness impudent sauciness: if a man will make courtesy 
and say nothing, he is virtuous. Shakspeare. 
SNEATII, or Seeyth, provincially, a term applied to 
the shaft of a scythe in some places. 
SNEATON, a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire ; 
2j miles south-by-west of Whitby. 
To SNEB, v. a. To check; to chide; to reprimand. 
Which made this foolish brere wexe so bold, 
That on a time he cast him to scold 
And snebbe the good oak, for he was old. Spenser. 
SNECK, s. [of uncertain etymology .] The latch or bolt 
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