snastt (snast)

[Appar. a var. of guast1, knast, in the same sense.) The snuff of a candle. after your You chandler, I like not your tricks;.. weeke or snaft [read snast ] is stiffened, you dip it in filthy dro e, and after give him a coat of good tallowe. IMG:content-1396.png:[blocks in formation] Enrich me with the knowledge of thy works! Snatch me to Heaven. Thomson , Autumn, 1. 1354. 4. Naut., to place the bight of (a rope) in a snatch-block so that it may lead properly. II. in trans. 1. To seize, or attempt to seize, a thing suddenly: generally with at . Snatch not at every favour. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 5. No eager man among his joyous peers To snatch at pleasure. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 111. 2. See the quotation. A Snatching is a form of illicit piscicapture. large triangle is attached to a line of fine gut, well weighted with swan-shot or a small plummet. The line is then dropped into some quiet place where fish are plentiful,. and, as soon as the plummet has touched the bottom, is twitched violently up. It is almost a certainty that on some one or other of the hooks, and po ibly on more than one, will be a fish foul-hooked. The Standard (London), Oct. 21, 1878. ( Davies .) snatch (snach), n . [ snatch , v. Cf. snack , n.] 1. A hasty catch or seizing. How can he live by snatches from such people? He bore a worthy mind. Fletcher, Wit without Money, i. 1. His scar sell a was snatched at, but all the while he was being hustled and dragged, and the snatch failed. George Eliot , Romola, lxvi. 2. An attempt to seize suddenly; a sharp attack. Thus not only as oft as we speak, as one saith, but also as oft as we do anything of note or consequence, we subject ourselves to every one's censure, and happy is he that is least to ed upon tongues; for utterly to escape the snatch of them it is impo ible! The Translators to the Reader of the Bible (A. V.), p. cvi. 3t. A catching of the voice; impeded utterance. [Rare.] The snatches in his voice, And burst of speaking, were as his. Shak., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 105. 4. A piece snatched or broken off; a small piece or quantity; a fragment; a bit. Mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7. 178. But I am somewhat worn, A snatch of sleep were like the peace of God. Tennyson, Harold, v. 1. 5. A short fit of vigorous action: as, a snatch at weeding after a shower. High-stepping horses seemed nece ary to all Mr. Lammle's friends - as nece ary as their transaction of busine together in a gipsy way at untimely hours,. IMG:content-1397.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1398.png:[blocks in formation] snasty (snas'ti), a . [Cf. snash .] Cro ; snap- pish. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] snatch (snach), v .; pret. and pp. snatched (for- merly snaught ) , ppr. snatching . [ ME.snachen , snacchen, snecchen , an a ibilated form of snak- ken , E. snack , snatch: see snack .] I. trans. 1. To seize or take hastily, eagerly, abruptly, or violently. He... from my finger snatch'd that ring. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. 276. I'm loth to snatch thy punishment Out of the hand of justice. B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. 6. Him did I see snatch up with horrid grasp Two sprawling Greeks, in either hand a man. Add is on, Æneid, iii. The farmers snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls, to make good the resolute words of their town debates. Emerson , Hist. Discourse at Concord. Hence, figuratively - 2. To get or save by sudden or violent effort, or by good fortune. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. IMG:content-1399.png:[blocks in formation] heavy purchases where a warp or hawser is brought to a capstan, it is called a voyal or viol block. Also notch - block. See also cut under block1.