snappish

[Eng. snap; -ish.] 1. Ready or apt to snap at or bite people. "A village cur, of snappish race, The pertest puppy of the place." Gay: Fable 46. 2. Sharp in reply; apt to speak sharply or 3. Sharp, harsh, tart, bitter. harshly. "Snappish dialogue, that flippant wits Call comedy." Cowper: Task, iv. 198. 1. Lit.: To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl. "Dogs that snarl about a bone And play together when they've none." Butler: Hudibras, iii. 3. 2. Fig .: To speak roughly or cro ly; to talk harshly. "Do ye snarle, you black jill? she looks like the picture of America."- Beaum . & Flet.: Knight of Malta, v. 1. *snarl (2), *snarle (2), v . t. [A freq. from snare (q. v.).] 1. To entangle, to complicate; to involve in knots. "And from her backe her garments she did teare, And from her head ofte rent her snarled heare." Spenser: F. Q., III. xii. 7. 2. To confuse, to embarra , to entangle. "You snarle yourself into so many and hey no use absurdities, as you shall never be able to wynde yourself oute."- Abp . Cranmer: Ans. to Bp. Gardner. snarl (3), v. t. [Etym. doubtful.] To raise hollow work in metals by percu ion. snarl (1), 8. [SNARL (1), v.] A growl, a quarrel; an angry controversy. tartne . "He threatened with great snappishne to flog me."Wake field: Memoirs , p. 23. snap-pỹ, a. [Eng.snap; -y.] Snappish, sharp. *snap-săck, s. [Sw. snappsäck; Ger. schnapp sack.] A knapsack. "We should look upon him as a strange soldier that when he is upon his march, and to go upon service, instead of his sword should take his snapsack ."-South: Sermons, viii. 233. snapt, pret. & pa. par. of v. [SNAP, v.] snap-weēd, s. [Eng. snap, and weed.] Bot.: The genus Impatiens. *snar, *snarre, v . i . [O. Dut.snarren=to brawl, to snarl; Ger. schnurren to snarl.] To snarl. "Tygres that did see me to grin, And snar at all that ever pa ed by." Spenser: F. Q., VL. xii. 27. IMG:content-1648.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Hence, anything by which one is entangled, entrapped, or inveigled and brought into trouble. "Yet are we so weake, and the snares and occasions so innumerable, that we fall dayly and hourely."- Tyndall : Works, p. 91. 4. The gut stretched acro the head of a drum. snare-drum, s. [DRUM (1), 8., 11. 1 (1).] snäre, v. t. & i. [SNARE, 8.] A. Trans.: To catch in or with a snare: to take or catch by guile; to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger; to entangle. "Had her eyes disposed their lookes to play, The king had snared beene in loues strong lace." Fairefax : Godfrey of Boulogne , ii. 20. B. In trans.: To catch birds, ., with snares; to set snares for birds, . "But he, triumphant spirit! all things dared, He poached the wood and on the warren snared." Crabbe: Parish Register.