snifty (snift i)

[ snig1 (snig), v. [A var. of snick.] I. trans. To cut or chop off. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] II. in trans. To cut; bite; nag. Others are so dangerously worldly, snigging and biting, usurers, hard and oppre ing. Rogers , Naaman the Syrian, p. 211. (Trench.) snig2 (snig), n. [Also snigg; snag3 , snail , snake , ult. from the root of sneak .] An eel. [Prov. Eng.] snig3 (snig), a. A dialectal variant of snид. IMG:content-1409.png:[blocks in formation] hole in one's coat.-4. To move or work lightly; make signs with, as the fingers. [Rare.] The Eastern brokers have used for ages, and still use, the method of secretly indicating numbers to one another in bargaining by " snipping fingers under a cloth." "Every joynt and every finger hath his signification," as an old traveller says, and the system seems a more or le artificial development of ordinary finger-counting. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 223. II. in trans. To make a short, quick cut or clip; cut out a bit; clip: sometimes with at for the attempt to cut. snip (snip), n. [See the verb.] 1. A clip; a single cut with shears or sci ors; hence, any similar act of cutting.-2. A small piece cut off; a shred; a bit. Her sparkling Eye is like the Morning Star; Her lips two snips of crims in Sattin are. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Trophies. Some small snip of gain. Dryden, Epil. at his Benefit, 1. 14. 3. A share; a snack. See to go snips, below. He found his friend upon the mending hand, which he was glad to hear, because of the snip that he himself exSir R. L'Estrange. pected upon the dividend. 4. A tailor. [Cant.] Sir, here's Snip the taylor Charg'd with a riot. Randolph, Muse's Looking Gla , iv. 3. ( Davies .) A fashionable snip , who had authority for calling himself "breeches-maker to H. R. H. Prince Albert," had an order to prepare some finery for the Emperor. C. A. Bristed , English University, p. 292, note. To go snipst, to go snacks; share. The Gamester calls out to me to give him good Luck, win. and promises I shall go Snips with him in what he shall N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 5. the knot, Tringa canutus, also a sandpiper. (4) The stone snipe is Totanus melanoleucus, a tattler. See cut under yellowlegs. (6) In Great Britain the sea-snipe is the uni Tringa or Pelidna alpina, a sandpiper. (6) In Great Britain the summer snipe is the common sandpiper, Act it is hypo leucus. (7) Painted snipe are the curious birds of the genus Rhynchæa or Rostratula. See these words. (c) A common misnomer, in various localities, of the American woodcock, Philohela minor: also called common snipe, big snipe, mud snipe, red-breasted snipe, big -headed snipe, snipe, whistling snipe, wood - snipe. See woodcock. (d) A misnomer of the long-billed curlew. R. Ridgway. [Salt Lake valley.] (e) pl. The Scolopacidæ; the snipe family. [The plural means either two or more birds of one kind, or two or more kinds of these birds: in the former sense, the plural is generally snipe; in the latter, snipes.] 2. A fool; a blockhead; a simpleton; a goose. I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane, If I would time expend with such a snipe , But for my sport and profit. Shak ., Othello, i. 3. 391. And, by Jove, I sat there like a great snipe face to face with him (the bushranger] as cool and unconcerned as you like. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, xxx i. 3. A half-smoked cigar found on the street. [Slang, U. S.] - Bartram's highland snipe. Same as highland plover. See plover. - Bay-snipe, a bay-bird, or bay-birds collectively; a shore-bird.-Beach-snipe, a beach-bird; especially, the sanderling. See cut under sanderling. - Blind snipe, the stilt-sandpiper, Micropa lama him an top us. See cut under Micro palama. [New Jersey.]-Brown snipe. Same as red - breasted snipe ( a ). Checkered snipe, the turnstone, Streps i las interpres. [Barnegat.) - Cow-snipe, the pectoral sandpiper. [Alex andria, Virginia.] - Dutch snipet. Same as German snipe. - English snipe, the common American snipe, Gall in a go wilson i or G. delicata. It is not found in England, but much resembles the common snipe of that and other European countries, G. media or G. cœlest is. See cut under Gall in a go. [U. S.]-Frost-snipe, the stilt-sandpiper, Micro palama him an top us. [Local, Ú. S.] - German snipet. See German. - Gray snipe, the red breasted snipe, Macrorhamphus grise us, in gray plumage; the grayback. - Jadreka snipe, the black-tailed godwit, Limosa ægocephala. - Mire-snipe, the common European snipe, Gall in a go media. [Aberdeen, Scotland.] -Painted snipe, a snipe of the genus Rhynchæa (or Rostratula ), whose plumage, especially in the female, is of varied and striking colors. See Rhynchæa.- Red breasted snipe. See red - breasted. Red-legged snipe, the redshank. - Sabine's snipe, a melanistic variety of the whole-snipe, formerly described as a different species (Gall in a go sabiner). - Side snipe, a carpenters' molding side-plane. See snipe - bill, 1.- Solitary snipe, the great or double snipe, Gall in a go major. [Great Britain.]Whistling snipe. Same as greenshank. White-bellied snipe, the knot, Tringa canutus, in winter plumage. [Jamaica.] - Wilson's snipe. See def. 1 (a). [So named from Alexander Wilson.] - Winter snipe, the rock-snipe, or purple sandpiper. - Woodcock-snipe, the little woodcock, or great snipe, Gall in a go major. [Great Britain.] (See also double - snipe, half -snipe, horse foot- snipe, jacksnipe, martin- snipe, quail - snipe, rail - snipe, robin - snipe, rock- snipe, shore- snipe, whole - snipe.)