snowy (snoi)

[ IMG:content-1431.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3. White; pure; spotle ; unblemished. - Snowy heron, the small white egret of the United States, Garzetta can did is sima, when adult entirely pure-white with recurved occipital crest and dorsal plumes. See cut under Garzetta. Snowy lemming, the collared or Hudson's Bay lemming, or hare-tailed rat. See snow- mouse, 2, and Cuniculus, 2.- Snowy owl, the snow-owl. - Snowy pear. See pearl.-Snowy plover, Ægialites nivosus, a small ring-plover of the Pacific and Mexican Gulf coasts of the United States, related to the Kentish plover. snubl (snub), v. t.; pret. and pp. snubbed, ppr. snubbing. [ snub Trees... whose heads and boughs I have observ'd to run out far to landward, but toward the sea to be so snubbed by the winds as if their boughs had been pared or shaven off on that side. Ray, Works of Creation, i. 2. To make snub, as the nose. They laughed, and snubbed their noses with their handkerchiefs. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 14. 3. To check or stop suddenly; check the headway of, as a ve el by means of a rope in order to turn her into a narrow berth, or an unbroken horse in order to break him to the halter: commonly with up; also, to fasten, or tie up, as to a snub or snubbing-post. One of the first le ons the newly caught animal has to learn is not to "run on a rope," and he is taught this by being violently snubbed up , probably turning a somersault, the first two or three times that he feels the noose settle round his neck and makes a mad rush for liberty. T. Roosevelt , The Century, XXXV. 660. 4. To disconcert; check; rebuke with a severe or sarcastic reply or remark; slight designedly; treat with deliberate neglect. zif the brother shal synne in thee, go thou, and reproue hym, or snybbe. Wyclif, Mat. xviii. 15. Would it not vex a Man to the Heart to have an old Fool snubbing a Body every Minute afore Company? Steele, Tender Husband, i. 1. I did hear him say, a little snubbing before marriage would teach you to bear it the better afterwards. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, iv. The House of Lords, or a majority of them, about 200 men, can snub both king and House of Commons. W. R. Greg, Misc. E ays, 2d ser., p. 96. This youth spoke his mind too openly, and moreover would not be snubbed. IMG:content-1432.png:[blocks in formation] To snub a cable ( naut. ), to check it suddenly in running out. 5737 snub-cube (snub'kūb), n. A solid with thirty eight faces, at each of whose solid angles there are four triangles and a square, having six faces belonging to a cube, eight to the coaxial octahedron, and twenty-four others not belonging to any regular bodies. It is one of the thirteen Arch i me dean solids. See cut under solid. snub-dodecahedron (snub'do"dek-a-hedron), n. A solid with ninety-two faces, at each of whose corners there are four triangles and a pentagon, the pentagonal faces belonging to the regular dodecahedron, twenty of the triangular faces to the icosahedron, and the remaining sixty triangular faces to no regular body. It is one of the thirteen Arch i me dean solids. See cut under solid .