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Show SN SwarcH. 7. /. [from the verb. SNE‘ARINGLY 1. A hafty catch 2. A fhort fit of vigorous aGtion After a fhower to weeding a fnatch More eafily weed with the root to difpatch. Tuffer vacations would permit Brogon's Vulgar Errours 4. A broken or interrupted aion; afhor fit An The fiatches in his voice burft of fpeaking, were as his «conceivable how they conduce unto .a motion which, by reafon of its perpetuity, muft be regula and equal Wilkins's Dedalus. We have often little fnatches of funthine and fai ~weather.in the mo{t uncomfortable partsof the year Speciator 5. A.quip a fhufling anfwer Come, leave your fratches, yield me a direét an {wer Difcourag'd by your guilty fear To hope for quarter for your cars Shakefpeare SNA'TCHER. 7z /. [from Jraich. On that fnatches or takes any thing in hafte They of thofe marche :Shall'be a wall fufficient to defen Our inland from the pilfering'borderers -We do not mean the courfing fnatchers onl But fear the main intendment of the Scot Shakefpeare's Henry V Hudibras 2. In a covetous manner SNE'AKINGNESS. z /i [from fneaking. 1. Niggardlinefs 2. Meannefs ; pitifulnefs SNE‘AKUP. % /. [from freak.] A cowardly creeping, infidious {coundrel. Obfolete The prince is a jack, a freakup; and if he wer here, I would cudgel hi 7 fay fo like a dog, if he woul Shakefpeare's Henry 1V SNEAP. @. g. [This word feems a corruption of /zib, or of fuap, to repri mand Perhaps /zap is in that fenf from /b, fnibbe, Danifh Men fhulde him /zibbe bitterly. Chaw. 1. To reprimand;; to check 2. To nip What ma Breed upon our abfence, may there blo No fneaping winds at home Shakefpeare SNEAP . /. [from the verb. mand ; a check A repri My lord, I will not undergo this Jneap withou reply = you call honourable boldnefs impudent faucinefs : if a man will cour'fy and fay nothing, h is virtuouss Shakefpeare's Henry IV N‘ 'P?‘\v If one be about to Jnee tubbing ¢ tears run will pregent 1 5 for th'at»'tf% fcending to the noftyils I diverted to gy , ey If While you freakingly fubmit And beg our pardon at our feet Shak. .Cymb They move by fit; and fratches3 fo that it is no adv. [from fueaking. 1. Meanly ; fervilely Do all things like a man, not fneakingly Think the king fees thee fill Herbert 3. A {mall part -of any thing; a broke part She chaunted fratches of old tunes As one incapable of her own diftrefs. Shak. Hamlet In this work attempts will exceed performances it being compofed by fratches of time, as medica he ) pain be more inten e an amongt the membran s, there wi?l b:e:n the palate and noftrils with frequent frm; To thee Cupid freed alou : t mansfs And every ' lucky o) me fent befi or ‘ To meet thee landin on the Sp arta P W ( If any thing opprefs the head, i:g};?}:e;D'JJ to free itfelf by [neczing R e Violent fncczi{g prodg\;ceth com}{,lz'ozth? "aticn mufcles of refpiration; fo great an altcm]a" be produced only by the tickl ngof 5 featheo{lcal if the a&ion of fneeziflg fhould be °°fltih|:;d an fome very acrid fubftance it wil| produce heagag univerfal convulfions, fever, and death, A,-bmbc An officer put the fharp end of his half-pik':f good way up into my noftril, whic tickled m)'nol lik a ftraw, and made me frecze violently, Suif SNEEZE.. . /. [from the verb of wind audibly by the nofe ] Enifio 1 heard the rack As earth and fky would mingles bug Thefe flaws, though mortals fear them As dangerous to the pillar'd frame ofheav'n‘ Are to the main as wholefome as a fneez To man's lefs univerfe, and foon are gone Milton's Paradify Regainad, We read in Godignus, that upon a faesss obte emperor of Monomotapa, there paffed acclamatioy fucceflively through the city. Erown‘:l'alg, E SNE'EZEWORT. n. f. [ptarmics, Latin.] A plant SNET. 7. /. [among hunters.] The fat o SNA'TCHINGLY. adv. [from Jnatching. 7 S e @.a. [properly to fuib. Se a deer Haftily; with interruption " Dig S e r To check; to chide; to re- 'Sxew. The old preterite of 7o fuow. Dig Zo SNEAK. @. 7. [rnican, Saxon ; Juige pr ma d Zo Sx1B. . a. [/uibbe, Danifh, S Danifh. Which made this foolifh briar wax fo bold S e r 1. To creep {flily;; to come or go as i T c e k tonip; torepi That on a time'he caft him to fcol mand afraid to be feen And frebbe the good oak, for he was old. Spenfer Afked for their pafs by every fquib Once the eagle, England, being in prey 7 S E R @ 7. [This word is appaThat lift at will them' to revile or fuib. Hub. Tal Toher unguarded neft the weazel Sco rently of the fame family with fiore and Svick an Comes fueaking, and fo fucks her princely egg fuwe. m. /i A combat wit Jn rt Shake|peare k i e Sneak not away, fir; for the fiiar and y 1. To fhow contempt by looks : zafs S/ Among the Dunkirkers, where fnick and fieeiia Muft have word anon : lay hold on him. Shak Difcover'd, and defeated of your prey You fkulk'd behind the fence, and Jneak' away. Dryden ought not to turn my back, and to fnea of in filence, and leave the truth to lie baffl d, bleed dng, and flain He fneak'd into the grave Watts A monarch's half, and halfaharlot's fla e. Dune Are youall ready? Here's your mufic here Author, fneak oft'; we'll tickle you, m dear, Moore 2. To behave with meannefs and fervilit to crouch to truckle I need falute no great man's thr flwld,fnmk t none of his friends to fpeak a g00 word for me t my confcience South Nothing can fupport minds droopin and fneaking, and inwardly reproaching the , from a fenf of their own guilt, but to fee others as bad South's' Sermons When int'reft calls off all her freatin train When all th oblig'd defert, and al] the v in She waits, or to the fcaffold, or the cell When the latt ling'ring friend has bid fare el. Pope To firuts a foldier, open, bold, and bra e Will fieaks a feriviner, an exceeding kna e, Pope SNEAKER 7. / A {mall vefle]l of drink T have juft left the right worfhipful and h s myrmidons about a freaker of five gallons Spectator SNE‘AKING participial adj. [fro 1. ‘Servile ; mean ; low When the fmart dialogue grows rich With fueaking dog, and ugly bitch fieak. Rowe 2. Covetous 3 niggardly ; meanl parfiAnonious pendere adunco 2. To infinuate contempt by covert expreflions ‘The wolf was by, and the fox in a [neering wa advifed him not to irritate a prince againft his fubJeéts L'Eftrange L could be content to be alittle fcered at in line, for the fake of the pleafure I fhould have i reading the reft Pope If there has been any thing exprefied with to much feverity, it will fall upon thofe Jneering daring writers of the age againft religion, who hav left reafon and decency Watts 3. To utter with grimace I have not been fieering fulfome lies, and nau feous flattery, at a little tawdry whore 4. To thew awkward mirth Congrewe T had no power over one mufcle in their faces though they frecred at every word fpoken by eacl other Tatler SNEER. 7 /i [from the verb. 1. A look of contemptuous ridicule Did not the freer of more impartial men At fenfe and virtue, balance all agen z. An expreflion of ludicrous {corn. Pope Socrates or Caefar might have a fool's coa cla upo them, and in this difguife neither th wifdo of the one, nor the majefty of the other could fecure them from a fecr Watts SNEERER. #. /[ [from Jneer.] He tha {neers or fhows contempt Zo SNEEZE. ‘. ». [nieyan, axon nigfen, Dutch. by the nofe To emit wind audibl i fathion a boatfwain e SN o with fome of our me drinking together, became quarrelfome:‘oneo our men beat him down; then kneeling upon his® breaft, he drew out a knife fticking in his fafh and cut him from the ear towards the mouth W fernan's Strgery 7o Sx1'CKER or Snigger. . ». Tolaug {lily, wantonly or contemptuoufly ; 1 laugh in one's {leeve Did ToSN1FF. . n. [ fniffa, Swedith.] T draw breath audibly up the nofe and frift at thedean fcornful So then you look' As who fhould fay, Now am I {kinay andig‘z‘m'2 Zo SNI'GGLE Snigglin ‘V. ( day is thus performed: m a war whcngflm \%fltcr is loweft, take & ftrong fmall ho;:: tied to a firing about a yard long; and 'dllelfl on of the holes wher an cel may hldeb ?;lei with the help of a fhort ftick put U:J:x:)i;nsly‘ and as far as you may convenichtl furely withiyx; the fight of it, the ec]i l;}':ll bx;eb)l,nd{t;nm;' o imWralin eorge iit: dugl p certainly gorg and as certainl To Sx1p. w. a. [ fuippens Dutch.]. Toc at once with fciffars {g W{? c wh n op la b ul fh u The fi - iz pr o pa wi he in tw up abou and the incifed lips dreffed Wifiman.-sb.n_s le ‘: :r ;\ t; ex ug br me de tr Whe 21 oi cu t ga ba t Roger ufe r%: %l; ;l th fo r ff fe o pa yarz ; Te wor M and would fuip it off nicely 't lgn tle u}; ar n( _f th o d bl Putting on the other up the wound, Jnip the wh the fiftula Fo Swit R |