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Snap [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

2. A sudden eager bite; a sudden seizing or effort to seize with the teeth.

4. A greedly fellow.

5. A catch; a theft.

Snap [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To break short; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast or spar snaps; a needle snaps. If steel is too hard, that is, too brittle, with the least bending, it will snap

2. To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; as, a dog snaps at a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.

3. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words.

Snap [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To break at once; to break short; as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open, smaps the locks.

2. To strike with a sharp sound.

3. To bite or seize suddenly with the teeth.

4. To break upon suddenly with sharp angry words.

5. To crack; as, to snap a whip.

6. TO snap OFF,

7. To break suddenly.

8. To bite off suddenly.

9. TO snap ONE UP, TO snap ONE UP SHORT , to treat with sharp words.

Snap [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.

4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.

5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.

6. To project with a snap.

Snap [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.

2. To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.

3. To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.

4. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.

5. To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.

Snap [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

2. A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.

3. A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.

4. A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.

5. A greedy fellow.

6. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.

7. A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.

8. A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.

9. A snap beetle.

10. A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.

11. Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.

12. Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

Snap-dragon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A plant, calf's snout, of the genus Antirrhinum, and another of the genus Ruellia, and one of the genus Barleria.

2. A play in which raisins are snatched from burning brandy and put into the mouth.

3. The thing eaten at snap-dragon

Snapdragon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.

2. A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.

3. A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon.

Snape [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

Snaphance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached.

2. A trifling or second-rate thing or person.

Snaphead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.

Snapped [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Broken abruptly; seized or bitten suddenly; cracked, as a whip.

Snapped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Snapper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that snaps.

Snapper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.

2. Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.

3. A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.

4. The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

5. A snap beetle.

Snapping Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Snap, v.

Snapping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Snappish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Eager to bite; apt to snap; as a snappish cur.

2. Peevish; sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or tartly.

Snappish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.