snaggletoothed (snagltotht)

Having a snaggle-tooth or snaggle-teeth. IMG:content-1385.jpg:[blocks in formation] man snail.- Marine snails, pulmonate gastropods of the 'snailst (snālz), interj . An old minced oath, an old group Thala ophila . - Ocean snails, the violet-snails abbreviation of his (Christ's) nails (with which or Ianthinidæ . - Open snail, Helix ( Zonites ) umbilicata , abundant in rocky places in England. - Periwinkle-snail, he was nailed to the cro ). a pulmonate gastropod of the family Amphibolidæ , resem- bling a periwinkle. See cut under Amphibola . - Pheasant- snail, a pheasant-shell. - Pygmy snail, Punctum minu- tum , a minute species found in England in wet places. Roman snail, the edible snail. - Salt-water snail, one of numerous marine gastropods whose shells are shaped like those of snails, as species of Natica (or Lunatia ), or Ne- verita, or Littorina , etc.; a sea-snail. - Shell-le snail. 2. Being or resembling a snag; snag-like. Just where the waves curl beyond such a point you may discern a multitude of blackened snaggy shapes protrud- ing above the water. Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 735. An' I wur down i' tha mouth, couldn't do naw work an'all, Nasty an' snaggy , an' shaäky, an' poonch'd my 'and wi' the hawl. Tennyson, Northern Cobbler, xiv. snag-tooth (snag'töth), n. A long, ugly, irreg- ular tooth; a broken-down tooth; a snaggle- tooth. Like stakes which strut by the water side. Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (1671), p. 253. ( Nares .) on wet mo y rocks, especially in the west and south of England.-Snail's gallop, a snail's pace; very slow or almost imperceptible movement. I see what haste you make; you are never the for- warder, you go a snail's gallop . Snail's pace, a very slow pace. - Snakeskin-snail, a tropical American snail of the genus Solar i ops is . Tooth- ed snails, those Helicidæ whose aperture has a tooth or teeth, as of the genus Tridopsis . - White snail. (a) Va- scribed as V. cost at a . [Eng.] (b) A snail-bore: an oyster- lonia pulchella , of which a ribbed variety has been de- men's name for various shells injurious to the beds, as the drills or borers, particularly of the genera Urosalpinx and Natica . See snail - bore . - Zoned snail, Helix virgata , pro- digiously numerous in many of the chalk and limestone districts of England. (See also apple - snail , ear- snail , gla - snail, pond-snail, river- snail , sea-snail, shrub-snail, stone- snail, violet-snail.) IMG:content-1386.png:[blocks in formation] has no lid or oper- culum, as the com- mon garden-snail, cies, of numerous genera and several subfamilies. In the phrases below are noted some of the common British vernacular names. See Helicidæ , and cuts under Gastero- pod a and Pulmo- nat a. (b) A mollusk like the above, but shell-le or nearly so; a slug. (c) An There ben also in that Contree a kynde of Snayles , that ben so grete that many per sones may loggen hem in here Schelles, as men wolde done in a litylle Hous. Mandeville , Travels, p. 193. 4†. Milit . , a protective shed, usually called tor- toise or testudo .-5. A spiral piece of mach in- ery somewhat resembling a snail; specifically, the piece of metal forming part of the striking work of a clock. See cut under snail- wheel.- 6. In an at ., the cochlea of the ear.-7. pl . Same as snail - clover .-Aquatic snails, pulmonate gastro- pods of the old group Limnophila . - Bristly snail, Helix hispid a and its varieties, abounding in waste places in the British Isles.-Brown snail. (a) The garden or girdled. snail. (b) Helix fusc a , a delicate species peculiar to the British Isles, found in bushy places. - Carnivorous snails, the Test a cel lidæ . - Common snail, Helix aspers a. It is edible, and in some places annual snail-feasts are held to eat it; it is also gathered in large quantities snail (snal), v. [Early mod. E. also snayle ; = Dan. snegle ; from the noun.] I. in trans. To move slowly or lazily, like a snail. [Rare.] This sayd, shee trots on snayling , lyk a tooth-shaken old hagge. Stan i hurst , Æneid, iv. 689. II. trans. To give the form of a snail-shell to; make spirally winding. [Rare.] God plac't the Ears (where they might best attend) As in two Turrets, on the buildings top, Snailing their hollow entries so a-sloap That, while the voyce about those windings wanders, The sound might lengthen in those bow'd Meanders. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. snail-bore (snāl'bor), n. A gastropod, as a whelk, etc., which bores oysters or injures oys- ter-beds; a borer; a drill. They are of numer- ous different genera. Urosalpinx cinerea is probably the most destructive. [Local, U.S.] snail-borer (snāl'bōr"ėr), n. A snail-bore. snail-clover (snāl'klover), n . A species of medic, Medicago scutellata , so called from its spirally coiled pods. The name is also applied to the lucern, M. sativa , and sometimes extended to the whole genus. Also snails, snail - plant , and snail -trefoil. snailery (snāl'ér-i), n.; pl. snaileries (-iz). [ snaileries where the apple- snail is cultivated for home consumption or for the mar- ket. St. James's Gazette, May 28, 1886. ( Encyc . Dict .) snail-fish (snāl'fish), n . A fish of the genus Liparis : so called from their soft unctuous feel, and their habit of adhering to rocks by means of a ventral sucker. Several species which commonly receive the name are found in Great Britain, as L. line at a and L. montagui . They are also called sea- snail and sucker . See Liparidide . snail-flower (snal'flou"èr), n. A twining bean, Phaseolus Car a call a , often cultivated in tropical gardens and in greenhouses for its showy white and purple fragrant flowers. The standard and the long-beaked keel are spirally coiled, sug- gesting the name. snail-like (snāl'lik), a. Like a snail in moving slowly; snail-paced. snail-pace (snāl'pās), n. A very slow move- ment. Compare snail's gallop , snail's pace , un- snail-paced (snāl'pāst), a. Snail-like in pace or gait; creeping or moving slowly. Delay leads impotent and snail - paced beggary. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 3. 53. snail-park (snāl'pärk), n. edible snails; a snailery. snail-plant (snāl'plant), n. ticularly Medicago scutellata A place for raising Good Housekeeping , Snail-clover, par- and M. Helix . Him that these dials against walls began, Whose snaily motion of the moving hand, Although it go, yet seem to me to stand. Drayton, Of His Lady's Not Coming to London. snake (snāk), n. [ snake , snaca (per- haps orig. snāca ) ( L.scorpio ) = Icel. snākr , snōkr = Sw. snok = Dan. snog = MD. MLG. snake , a snake; lit. 'creeper,' derived, like the relat- ed snag3 and snail , from the verb seen in AS. snīcan (pret. * snāc , pp. * snicen ), creep, crawl: see sneak . Cf. Skt. naga , a serpent. Cf. reptile and serpent , also from verbs meaning 'creep.'] 1. A serpent; an ophidian; any member of the order Ophidia. See serpent and Ophidia . So, roll'd up in his den, the swelling snake Beholds the traveller approach the brake. Pope , Iliad, xxii. 180. IMG:content-1387.jpg:[graphic] 3. A lizard with rudimentary limbs or none, mistaken for a true snake: as, the Aberdeen snake (the blindworm or slow-worm); a gla - snake . See snake - lizard , and cuts under amphis- bæna, blindworm, dart-snake, gla - snake , schel- topusik, and serpentiform.-4. A snake-like amphibian: as, the Congo snake , the North American Amphiuma means, a urodele am- phibian. See Amphiuma . -5. A person having the character attributed to a snake; a treach- erous person. If thou seest They look like men of worth and state, and carry Ballast of both sides, like tall gentlemen, Admit 'em; but no snakes to poison us With poverty. snake cephalus superb us. - Lightning snake, the thunder-and lightning snake. - Lizard-snake, an occasional name of the common garter-snake, Eutænia sirtalis. See cut under Eutænia. [U. S.] - Nocuous snakes, venomous snakes; Nocua. - Orange-bellied snake, Pseud ech is australis. Prairie-snake, one of the whip-snakes, Mas ticophis flavigularis. -Red-bellied snake, the horn-snake, Farancia abacura. See Farancia. Also called wampum snake.-Riband-snake. Same as ribbon -snake. - Ringed snake, the common snake of Europe, Trop i do not us natriz. Also called gra -snake. See cut under Trop i do not us. -Ring-necked snake, Diadophis punctatus. See ring necked. - Ru el i an snake, Daboia ru ell i. See cut under daboya.- Scarlet snake. (a) Rhinos tom a coccinea, of the southern United States, ringed with red, black, and yellow like the harlequin or a coral-snake, but harmle . (b) See scarlet. - Scarlet-spotted snake, Brachy soma diadem a. - Sea-snake. See sea- serpent, 2, and Hydrophidæ.- Short-tailed snakes, the Tortricidæ. Smooth snake, Coronella lævis, the Austrian snake. Snake in the gra , an underhand, plotting, deceitful person. - Snake pipe-fish, the straight-nosed pipe-fish, Nerophis ophidion, of British waters. Couch.-Spectacled snake, the true cobra, Naja tripudians, and some similarly marked cobras. See cut under cobra - de - capello. - Spotted-neck snake, the North American Storer i a dekayi, a harmle colubrine serpent. - Striped snake, a garter snake. See Eutænia. [U. S.] - Swift garter-snake, Eutænia saurita, the ribbon-snake. - Thunder-snake, thunder-and-lightning snake, one of different species of Ophibolus, especially O. getulus, the king or chain snake, and O. eximius, the house or milk-snake. The name probably means no more than that these, like a good many other snakes, crawl out of their holes when it rains hard.- Tortoise-headed snake, a book-name of the ringed sea-snake, Emydocephalus annul at us. To see snakes, to have snakes in one's boots, to have delirium tremens. [Slang.] - Venomous snakes, any poisonous or nocuous serpents. See the explanation under ser pent. - Wampum-snake. Same as red - bellied snake. (See also blind-snake, blowing - snake, bull -snake, carpet-snake, chain-snake, chicken-snake, coral-snake, corn-snake, dart snake, desert-snake, fetish-snake, garter-snake, gla - snake, ground-snake, hog-snake, hoop-snake, horn-snake, milk snake, pilot-snake, pine-snake, rat - snake, ribbon - snake, rock snake, sand - snake, siva - snake, tree-snake, water-snake, whip snake, worm-snake.) snake (snak), pret and pa er snaking. [ Anon vpon the flowry Plains he looks, Laced about with snaking siluer brooks. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 7. An arrow snakes when it slips under the gra . M. and W. Thompson , Archery, p. 54. Projectiles subject to this influence [spiral motion of rotation round their original direction] are technically Farrow , Mil. Encyc., III. 130. said to snake. II. trans. 1. To drag or haul, especially by a chain or rope fastened around one end of the object, as a log; hence, to pull forcibly; jerk: used generally with out or along . [U.S.] Unle some legal loophole can be found through which an evasion or extension can be succe fully snaked. 5725 Snake-buzzard ( Circaltus gallic us ).