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is by Llyn Cawellyn, about midway between Beddgellert 
and Caernarvon. The view from the summit is beyond 
measure grand and extensive; and in a clear day, and when 
the mountain is free of clouds, which, however, is but seldom 
the case, the eye can trace the hills of Scotland, with part of 
the coast, the high mountains of Westmoreland and Cum¬ 
berland, and some of the hills of Lancashire; even the 
county of Wicklow is on some occasions partly visible, and 
the whole of the Isle of Man. All the intermediate country 
appears as if in a map ; and even the adjacent mountains, 
which are of great height, seem directly under the eye. The 
mountain of Snowdon was held sacred by the ancient Britons, 
in the same manner as Parnassus was by the Greeks, and Ida 
by the Cretans. 
SNO'WDROP, 8. [tiarcissoleucoiutn, Lat.] An early 
flower. 
The little shape, by magic power, 
Grew less and less, contracted to a flower ; 
A flower, that first in this sweet garden smil’d, 
To virgins sacred, and the snowdrop styl’d. Tickelh 
SNOWHILL, a post town and port of entry of the United 
States, and capital of Worcester county, Maryland, on the 
Pocomoke, 25 miles from its mouth. It is pleasantly 
situated, and contains a court-house, a jail, an academy, a 
bank, three houses of public worship, one for Presbyterians, 
one for Episcopalians, and one for Methodists, and about 
1000 inhabitants, and has considerable trade. The shipping 
belonging to this port, in 1816, amounted to 8458 tons; 
125 miles south of Philadelphia. Lat. 38. 10. N. long. 75. 
30. W. 
SNOWHILL, a post village of the United States, in Greene 
county. North Carolina. 
SNO'WLIKE, adj. [pnaj?-hc, Saxon.] Resembling 
snow. 
SNOWSHILL, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire ; 
5 miles north-east of Winchcombe. 
SNOW-WHITE, adj. [pnaj> hjnte, Saxon.] White as 
snow. 
Let fair humanity abhor the deed, 
That spots and stains love’s modest snow-white weed. 
Shakspeare. 
SNO'WY, adj. White like snow. 
Now I see thy jolly train : 
Snowy headed Winter leads; 
Spring and Summer next succeeds; 
Yellow Autumn brings the rear; 
Thou art father of the year. Rowe. 
Abounding with snow. 
These first in Crete 
And Ida known ; thence on the snowy top 
Of cold Olympus rul’d the middle air. Milton. 
Pure; white; unblemished. 
There did he lose his snowy innocence, 
His undepraved will. J. Hall. 
SNUB, s. [from snebbc, Dutch, a nose, or Jcnubel , a 
joint of the' finger.] A jag; a snag; a knot in wood. 
Lifting up his dreadful club on high. 
All arm'd with ragged snubs and knotty grain. 
Him thought at first encounter to have slain. Spenser. 
To SNUB, v. a. [Swedish snubba , to huff, to check; 
Icel. the same, or rather to correct sharply or roughly.] To 
check; to reprimand.-—We frequently see the child, in spite 
of being neglected, snubbed, and thwarted at home, acquire 
a behaviour which makes him agreeable to all the rest of the 
world. Tatlcr. —To nip.—Near the sea-shores the heads 
and boughs of trees run out far to landward; but toward the 
sea are so snubbed by the winds, as if their boughs had been 
pared or shaven off. Ray. 
To SNUB, v. n. [schnauben , Germ.] To sob with con¬ 
vulsion. 
SNU'BNOSED, adj. Having a flat or short nose; a 
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corruption of snut-nosed, which is in the old dictionaries, 
and which is from snout. 
To SNUDGE, v. n. [sniger , Danish; pnican, Sax.; 
snaighim, Gael. See To Sneak.] To lie idle, close, or 
snug. 
Now he will fight it out, and to the wars; 
Now eat his bread in peace. 
And snudge in quiet; now he scorns increase; 
Now all day spares. Herbert. 
SNUDGE, s. A miser; a curmudgeon ; a niggardly or 
sneaking fellow. 
SNUFF, s. [ snuffen , Teut. naribus spirare; snyfsta, Su. 
Goth.; snufwa, Swed,; all from the ancient word nef the 
nose.] Smell.—The Immortal, the Eternal, wants not the 
snuff of mortal incense for his, but for our sakes. Stukely. 
—The useless excrescence of a candle. 
My snuff and loathed part of nature should 
Bum itself out. Shakspeare. 
But dearest heart, and dearer image, stay! 
Alas! true joys at best are dreams enough : 
Though you stay here, you pass too last away; 
For even at first life’s taper is a snuff. Donne. 
A candle almost burnt out. 
Lamentable! 
To hide me from the radiant sun, and solace 
I’ the dungeon by a snuff. Shakspeare. 
The fired wick of a candle remaining after the flame,-—A 
torch, snuff and all, goes out in a moment, when dipped 
into the vapour. Addison .-—Resentment expressed by snift- 
ing; perverse resentment. This is a word borrowed from 
the Sax. pnoppa, nausea. It is thus learnedly illustrated by 
Bishop Andrews; “The Pharisees derided Christ; which is 
elegant in the original, naso suspendebant, 
they took it in snuff ; and, expressing their derision by 
drawing together the nose, they made noses at him.” 
What hath been seen 
Either in snuffs or packings of the duke’s. 
Or the hard rein which both of tiiem have borne 
Against the old kind king. Shakspeare^ 
Jupiter took snuff at the contempt, and punished him : he 
sent him home again. L'Estrange. —Powdered tobacco 
taken by the nose. [Our old word was snush ; as in Ker¬ 
sey’s Diet. “Snush or snee.zfn.g-powder.” This carries us 
to sneeze, as the origin of that expression; and snus, Swed¬ 
ish, is also snuff. Snuff probably was made soon after the 
introduction of tobacco into this country.] 
He administer’d a dose 
Of mundungus to his nose. Hudibras. 
Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew, 
A charge of snuff" the wily virgin threw; 
The gnomes direct to every atom just 
The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope. 
To SNUFF, v. a. [snuffen , Teut.] To draw in with 
the breath. 
With delight he snuff'd the smell 
Of mortal change on earth. 
He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite; 
But when he stands collected in his might. 
He roars and promises a more successful fight. 
To scent. 
O’er all the blood-hound boasts superior skill, 
To scent, to view, to turn, and boldly kill! 
His fellows vain alarms rejects with scorn, 
True to the master’s voice, and learned horn: 
His nostrils oft, if ancient fame sing true. 
Trace the sly felon through the tainted dew : 
Once snuff'd, he follows with unalter’d aim. 
Nor odours lure him from the chosen game; 
Deep-mouth’d he thunders, and inflam’d he views, 
Springs on relentless, and to death pursues. 
Milton, 
Dryden. 
Tickell. 
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