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impossible not to be struck with the astonishing facility with 
which his works are completed; or with the delicacies of 
drawing, the correctness and fulness of expression, he has 
given to his animals, their ferocity or their alarm, even their 
affection for their young or their benefactor. Vandyck 
painted an excellent portrait of Sneyders, which was in the 
Orlean’s collection, and is engraved in the set of his heads. 
He himself handled the point, and has left several etchings 
of various animals. They are now become scarce. He died 
in 1657. 
SNEYDSBOROUGH, or Sneedsborough^ post town¬ 
ship of the United States, in Richmond county, North 
Carolina, on the Yadkin. 
SNIATYN, a town of Austrian Galicia, near the Pruth. 
It is surrounded by marshes, and contains 4000 inhabitants, 
of whom about 500 are Armenians. There are here con¬ 
siderable tanneries; 120 miles south-east of Lemberg, 
and 28 west of Czemowitz. Lat. 48. 39. N. long. 22. 
48. E. 
To SNIB, v. a. [Su. Goth, snyfba, verbis increpare.] 
To check; to nip; to reprimand.—Him wolde he snybben 
sharply for the nones. Chaucer. 
Asked for their pass by every squib. 
That list at will them to revile or snib. Spenser. 
SNIBSTON, a hamlet of England, county of Leicester; 
5 miles south-east of Ashby de la Zouch. 
SNICK, s. A small cut or mark. A latch. See Sneck. 
SNICK AND SNEE, s. [snee , Dutch, a cut, a gash. 
Sewel. —Perhaps snick is a cant expression for a knife.] A 
combat with knives.—Among the Dunkirkers, where snick 
and snee was in fashion, a boatswain with some of our men 
drinking together, became quarrelsome: one of our men 
beat him down; then kneeling upon his breast, he drew out 
a knife, sticking in his sash, and cut him from the ear to¬ 
wards the mouth. Wiseman. 
To SNI'CKER, or Snigger, v. n. [etymology un¬ 
known.'] To laugh slyly, wantonly, or contemptuously; 
to laugh in one’s sleeve. 
SNICKER’S GAP, a post village of the United States, in 
Loudoun county, Virginia. 
SNIESCNICZA, a mountain in Austrian Dalmatia, in the 
Ragusan territory, called from its height “ the Snowy 
Mountain,” and still containing the ruins of a temple 
dedicated to JEsculapius. 
To SNIFF, v. n. [snyfsta, Su. Goth. See To Snuff.] 
To draw breath audibly up the nose. 
So then you look'd scornful, and snift at the dean, 
As, who should say, now I am skinny and lean ? Swift. 
To SNIFF, v. a. To draw in with the breath. 
SNIFF, s. Perception by the nose. 
O, could I but have had one single sup, 
One single sniff, at Charlotte’s caudle-cup ! Warton. 
To SNIFT, v. n. To snort: “to snift in contempt.” 
See To Snuff. —'Resentment expressed by snifting. John¬ 
son. 
SNIG, s. A kind of eel. 
To SNI'GGLE, v. n. To fish for eels.— Sniggling is 
thus performed: in a warm day, when the water is lowest, 
take a strong small hook, tied to a string about a yard long; 
and then into one of the holes, where an eel may hide 
herself, with the help of a short stick put in your bait 
leisurely, and as far as you may, conveniently: if within the 
sight of it, the eel will bite instantly, and as certainly gorge 
it: pull him out by degrees. Walton. 
To SNI'GGLE, v. a. To catch; to snare. 
Have you remembered what we thought of ? 
—Yes, sir, I have sniggled him. Beaum. and FI. 
To SNIP, v. a. [snippen, Teut.] To cut at once with 
scissars.—Putting one blade of the scissars up the gut, and 
the other up the wound, snip the whole length of the fistula. 
Sharp. 
SNIP, s. A single cut with scissars.-—The ulcer would 
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not cure farther than it was laid open ; therefore with one 
snip more.I laid it open to the very end. Wiseman. —A 
small shred.—Those we keep within compass by small snips 
of emplast, hoping to defend the parts about; but, in spite 
of all, they will spread farther. Wiseman. —A share; a 
snack. A low word. —He found his friend upon the 
mending hand, which he was glad to hear, because of 
the snip that he himself expected upon the dividend. 
L'Fstrange. 
SNIPE, s. [schneppe, Germ., snip, Dutch; from 
schnebbe, the beak. Wachter, Serenius, and Lye. The 
Saxon word is jmce ; the Welsh ysnit; and we have also 
snite, which is of similar origin, viz., the snout; Swed. 
snyte, Teut. snuyte, the same.]—A small fen fowl with a 
long bill. See Scolopax. —A fool; a blockhead. 
Thus do I ever make my fool my purse; 
For I mine own gain’d knowledge should profane. 
If I should time expend with such a snipe. 
But for my sport and profit. Shakspeare. 
SNI'PPER, s. One that snips. 
SNI'PPET, s. A small part; a share. 
Witches simpling, and on gibbets 
Cutting from malefactors snippets ; 
Or from the pill’ry tips of ears. Hudibras. 
SNI'PSNAP, s. [A cant word formed by reduplication 
of snap.] Tart dialogue ; with quick replies. 
Dennis and dissonance, and captious art, 
And snipsnap short, and interruption smart. Pope. 
SNITE, s. jjmea, Saxon.] A snipe. This is perhaps 
the true name; but snipe prevails.—Of tame birds Cornwall 
hath doves, geese, and ducks: of wild, quail, rail, snite, 
and wood-dove. Carew. 
To SNITE, v. a. [jnytan, Saxon ; snuyten, Teut., from 
snuyte, the nose.] To blow the nose. This word is used 
in Scotland, not only in relation to the nose, as in England; 
but also as to a candle; “ suite the candle, snuff it.” 
It is also English : “ To snytyn a nose of candell.” Prompt. 
Parv. And in Wodroephe’s Fr. Gramm. 1623, p. 307. 
“ Snut that candle; where be the snutters ?”—Nor would 
any one be able to snite his nose, or to sneeze; in both 
which the passage of the breath through the mouth, being 
intercepted by the tongue, is forced to go through the nose. 
Grew. 
SNITHE, or Sni'thy, adj. [pmSan, Sax., to cut.] 
Sharp; piercing; cutting : applied to the wind, in some of 
the northern parts of England. 
SNITTER, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland; 
13- miles south-west of Alnwick. 
SNITTERBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 9 
miles north-west of Market Raisin. 
SNITTERFIELD, a parish of England, in Warwick¬ 
shire ; 4 miles north-by-east of Stratford-upon-Avon. Po¬ 
pulation 605. 
SNITTERTON, a hamlet of England, in Derbyshire; 2 
miles west-by-north of Matlock. 
SNI'VEL, s. [pnyflmj, pnofel, Sax., mucus.] Snot; 
the running of the nose. 
To SNI'VEL, v. n. To run at the nose.—To cry as 
children.—Funeral tears are hired out as mourning cloaks; 
and whether we go to our graves snivelling or singing, ’tis all 
mere form. L'Estrange. 
SNI'VELLER, s. A weeper; a weak lamenter. 
He’d more lament when I was dead, 
Thanall the snivellers round my bed. Swift. 
SNI'VELLY, adj. Running at the nose.—Pitiful; 
whining. 
SNIZORT, a parish of Scotland, in the isle of Skye, 
about 18 miles long and 9 broad, of an irregular figure. Po¬ 
pulation 2750. 
SNOD, s. jjnob, Sax., vitta.] A fillet; a riband. One 
of our western words, as snod; but in the north, snood, or 
snude. See also Cowel. 
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