snub (1), snebbe, snib, snib be

t. [Dan. snib be to set down, to reprimand; Sw. snubba; Icel. snubba. Originally to snip off the end of a thing; cf. Icel. snubbóttr = snubbed, snipped; snupra to snub, to chide; Sw. dial.snoppa =to cut off, to snuff a candle; snubba =to clip, to cut off.] *1. To nip; to check in growth. "Trees whose heads and boughs I have observ'd to run out far to landward, but toward the sea to be so snub'd by the winds, as if their boughs and leaves had been par'd or shaven off on that side."-Ray: On the Creation, pt. i. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1668.png:[blocks in formation] To snub a cable : Naut.: To stop it suddenly when running out. *snŭb (2), v. i. [Cf. Ger. snauben =to pant.] To sob with convulsions.