snails gallop

Motion or progre so slow as to be almost imperceptible. "You go a snail's gallop ."- Bailey : Erasmus , p. 41. *snāil, v . i . & t . [SNAIL, 8.] B. Trans.: To curve, to wind. (Sylvester: Crea tion, sixth day, first week, 637.) *snāil-er-ý, s. [Eng. snail , s.; -ery.] A place where snails are reared or fattened. "The numerous Continental snaileries where the appie. snail is cultivated for home consumption or for the market."- St . James's Gazette. snāke, s . [A. S. snaca , from snican (pa. t. snác, pa. par. snicen )=to sneak (q.v.); cogn. with Icel. snákr , snókr ; Dan.snog; Sw.snok ; Sansc. naga . ] Zool .: A serpent, any species of the order Ophidia. The best-known harmle snake is probably the Common Snake, known also as the Ringed or Gra Snake. The black snake, of which there are two species, is also very common in this country. The Common Snake has no poison fangs, but is furnished with scent-glands which secrete a volatile substance of offensive and penetrating odor. Snakes are partial to damp situations, and enter water readily, swimming with ease. They are very voracious, and swallow their prey-frogs, mice, and small birds-alive and entire, their teeth, which are in two rows on each side of the jaws, and directed backward, being too weak to tear or masticate. A snake in the gra : A secret enemy. (Cf. Virgil : Ecl . iii. 93.) snake-bird, snake-neck, s. Ornith.: Any individual of the genus Plotus (q.v.). [See extract, and illustration under Darter.] "They are also called Snake - necks , from the habit they have of swimming with the body submerged, and only the neck exposed above the water, so that they really look not unlike a snake coming along." -Ca ell's Nat . Hist ., iv. 200.