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Smite

SMITE, verb transitive preterit tense smote; participle passive smitten, smil. [This verb is the Latin mitto.]

1. To strike; to throw, drive or force against, as the fist or hand, a stone or a weapon; to reach with a blow or a weapon; as, to smite one with the fist; to smite with a rod or with a stone. Whoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39.

2. To kill; to destroy the life of by beating or by weapons of any kind; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other engine. David smote Goliath with a sling and a stone. The Philistines were often smitten with great slaughter. [This word, like slay, usually or always signification, that of beating, striking, the primitive mode of killing. We never apply it to the destruction of life by poison, by accident or by legal execution.]

3. To blast; to destroy life; as by a stroke or by something sent. The flax and the barley were smitten. Exodus 9:15.

4. To afflict; to chasten; to punish. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.

5. To strike or affect with passion. See what the charms that smite the simple heart. Smit with the love of sister arts we came.

TO smite WITH THE TONGUE, to reproach or upbraid. Jeremiah 18:18.

SMITE, verb intransitive To strike; to collide. The heart melteth and the kness smite together. Nahum 2.

SMITE, noun A blow.

Smiter

SMI'TER, noun One who smites or strikes. I gave my back to the smiters. Isaiah 50:6.

Smith

SMITH, noun

1. Literally, the striker, the beater; hence, one who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as an iron-smith; gold-smith; silver-smith, etc. Nor yet the smith hath learn'd to form a sword.

2. He that makes or effects any thing.

Hence the name smith which, from the number of workmen employed in working metals in early ages, is supposed to be more common than any other.

SMITH, verb transitive To beat into shape; to forge. [Not in use.]

Smithcraft

SMITH'CR'AFT, noun [smith and craft.] The art of occupation of a smith. [Little used.]

Smithery

SMITH'ERY, noun

1. The worshop of a smith.

2. Work done by a smith.

Smithing

SMITH'ING, noun The act or art of working a mass of iron into the intended shape.

Smithy

SMITH'Y, noun The shop of a smith. [I believe never used.]

Smitt

SMITT, noun The finest of the clayey ore made up into balls, used for marking sheep.

Smitten

SMITTEN, participle passive of smite, smit'n.

1. Struck; killed.

2. Affected with some passion; excited by beauty or someting impressive.

Smittle

SMIT'TLE, verb transitive [from smite.] To infect.

Smock

SMOCK, noun

1. A shift; a chemise; a woman's under garment.

2. In composition, it is used for female, or what relates to women; as smock-treason.

SMOCK'-FACED, adjective [smock and face.] Pace faced; maidenly; having a feminine countenance or complexion.

SMOCK'-FROCK, noun [smock and frock.] A gaberdine.

Smockless

SMOCK'LESS, noun Wanting a smock.

Smoke

SMOKE, noun

1. The exhalation, visble vapor or substance that escapes or is expelled in combustion from the substance burning. It is paricularly applied to the volatile matter expelled from vegetable matter, or wood coal, peat, etc. The matter expelled from metallic substances is more generally called fume, fumes.

2. Vapor; water exhalations.

SMOKE, verb intransitive

1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation. Wood and other fuel smokes when burning; amd smokes most when there is the least flame.

2. To burn; to be kindled; to rage; in Scripture. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy snall smoke against that man. Deuteronomy 29:20.

3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, be smokes along the field.

4. To smell or hunt out; to suspect. I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. [Little used.]

5. To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth and puffing it out.

6. TO suffer; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.

SMOKE, verb transitive

1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to scent, medicate or dry by smoke; as, to smoke infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

2. To smell out; to find out. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeer. [Now little used.]

3. TO sneer at; to ridicule to the face.

Smoke-Jack

SMO'KE-JACK, noun An engine for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel turned by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Smoked

SMO'KED, participle passive Cured, cleansed or dried in smoke.

Smokedry

SMO'KEDRY, verb transitive To dry by smoke.

Smokeless

SMO'KELESS, adjective Having no smoke; as smokeless towers.

Smoker

SMO'KER, adjective

1. One that dries by smoke.

2. One that used tobacco by burning it in a pipe or in the form of a cigar.

Smoking

SMO'KING, participle present tense

1. Emitting smoke, as fuel, etc.

2. Applying smoke for cleansing, drying, etc.

3. Using tobacco in a pipe or cigar.

SMO'KING, noun

1. The act of emitting smoke.

2. The act of applying smoke to.

3. The act or practice of using tobacco by burning it in a pipe or cigar.

Smoky

SMO'KY, adjective

1. Emitting smoke; fumid; as smoky fires.

2. Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as a smoky fog.

3. Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling it; thick. New England in autumn frequently has a smoky atmosphere.

4. Subject to be filled with smoke from the chimneys or fire-places; as a smoky house.

5. Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as smoky rafters; smoky cells.

Smoldering

SMOLDERING, the more correct orthography of smouldering, which see.

Smoor

SMOOR, SMORE, verb transitive TO suffocate or smother. [Not in use.]

Smooth

SMOOTH, adjective [Latin mitis.]

1. Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points are perceptible to the touch; not rough; as smooth glass; smooth porcelain. The out lines must be smooth imperceptible to the touch.

2. To free from obstruction; to make easy. Thou, Abelard, the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day.

3. To free from harshness; to make flowing. In their motions harmony divine so smooths her charming tones.'

4. To palliate; to soften; as, to smooth a fault.

5. To calm; to mollify; to allay. Each perturbation smooth'd with outward calm.

6. To ease. The difficulty smoothed.

7. To flatter; to soften with blandishments. Because I cannot flatter and look fair, smile in men's faces, smooth deceive and coy.

Smooth-Faced

SMOOTH'-FACED, adjective Having a mild, soft look; as smooth-faced wooers.

Smoothed

SMOOTH'ED, participle passive Made smooth.

Smoothen

SMOOTHEN, for smooth, is used by mechanics; though not, I believe, in the U. States.

Smoothly

SMOOTH'LY, adverb

1. Evenly; not roughly or harshly.

2. With even flow or motion; as, to flow or glide smoothly

3. Without obstruction or difficulty; readily; easily.

4. With soft, bland, insinuating language.

Smoothness

SMOOTH'NESS, noun

1. Evenness of suface; freedom from roughness or asperity; as the smoothness of a floor or wall; smoothness of the skin; smoothness of the water.

2. Softness or mildness to the palate; as the smoothness of wine.

3. Softness and sweetness of numbers; easy flow of words. Virgil, though smooth where smoothness is required, is far from affecting it.

4. Mildness or gentleness of speech; blandness of address.

Smore

SMOOR, SMORE verb transitive TO suffocate or smother. [Not in use.]

Smote

SMOTE, preterit tense of smite.

Smother

SMOTHER, verb transitive [allied perhaps to smoke.]

1. To suffocate of extinguish life by causing smoke or dust to enter the lungs; to stifle.

2. To suffocate or extinguish by closely covering, and be the exclustion of air; as, to smother a child in bed.

3. To suppress; to stifle; as, to smother the light of the understanding.

SMOTHER, noun

1. Smoke; thick dust.

2. A state of suppression. [Not in use.]

Smouch

SMOUCH, verb transitive To salute. [Not in use.]

Smouldering

SMOULDERING, SMOULDRY, adjective [a word formed from mold, molder. and therefore it ought to be written smoldering.] Burning and smoking without vent.

Smouldry

SMOULDERING, SMOULDRY adjective [a word formed from mold, molder. and therefore it ought to be written smoldering.] Burning and smoking without vent.

Smug

SMUG, adjective Nice; neat; affectedly nice in dress. [Not in use.]

SMUG, verb transitive To make spruce; to dress with affected neatness. [Not in use.]

Smuggle

SMUG'GLE, verb transitive [We probably have the root mug, in hugger mugger.]

1. To import or export secretly goods which are forbidden by the goverment to be imported or exported; or secretly to import or export dutiable goods without paying the duties imposed by law; to run.

2. To convey clandestinely.

Smuggled

SMUG'GLED, participle passive Imported or exported clandestinely and contrary to law.

Smuggler

SMUG'GLER, noun

1. One that imports or exports goods privately and contrary to law, either contraband goods or dutiable goods, without paying the customs.

2. A vessel employed in running goods.

Smuggling

SMUG'GLING, participle present tense Importing or exporting goods contrary to law.

SMUG'GLING, noun The offense of importing or exporting prohibited goods. or other goods without paying the customs.

Smugly

SMUG'LY, adverb Neatly; sprucely. [Not in use.]

Smugness

SMUG'NESS, noun Neatness; spruceness without elegance. [Not in use.]

Smut

SMUT, noun

1. A spot made with soot or coal; or the foul matter itself.

2. A foul black substance which forms on corn. Sometimes the whole ear is blasted and converted into smut This is often the fact with maiz. smut lessens the value of wheat.

3. Obscene language.

SMUT, verb intransitive To gather smut; tobe converted into smut

Smutch

SMUTCH, verb transitive [from smoke.] To blacken with smoke, soot or coal.

[Note. We have a common word in New England, pronouced smooch, which I take to be smutch It signifies to foul or blacken with something produced by combustion or other like substance.]

Smuttily

SMUT'TILY, adverb

1. Blackly; smokily; foully.

2. With obscene laguage.

Smutty

SMUT'TY, adjective

1. Soiled from smut, coal, soot or the like.

2. Tainted with mildew; as smutty corn.

3. Obscene; not modest or pure; as smutty language.

Snack

SNACK, noun [Qu. from the root of snatch.]

1. A share. It is now chiefly or wholly used in the phrase, to go snacks with one, that is, to have a share.

2. A slight hasty repast.

Snacket

SNACK'ET, SNECK'ET, noun The hasp of a casement.

Snacot

SNAC'OT, noun A fish. [Latin acus.]

Snaffle

SNAF'FLE, noun A bridle consisting of a slender bit-mouth, without branches.

SNAF'FLE, verb transitive To bridle; to hold or manage with a bridle.

Snag

SNAG, noun

1. A short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a shoot; a knot. The coat of arms now on a naked snag in triumph borne.

2. A tooth, in contempt; or a tooth projecting beyond the rest.

Snagged

SNAG'GED, SNAG'GY, adjective Full of snags; full of short rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots; as a snaggy tree; a snaggy stick; a snaggy oak.

Snaggy

SNAG'GED, SNAG'GY, adjective Full of snags; full of short rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots; as a SNAGGY tree; a SNAGGY stick; a SNAGGY oak.

Snail

SNAIL, noun

1. A slimy slow creeping animal, of the genus Helix, and order of Mollusca. The eyes of this insect are in the horns, one at the end of each, which it can retract at pleasure.

2. A drone; a slow moving person.

Snail-Claver

SNAIL-CLAVER, SNAIL-TREFOIL, noun A plant of the genus Medicago.

Snail-Flower

SNA'IL-FLOWER, noun A plant of the genus Phaseolus.

Snail-Like

SNA'IL-LIKE, adjective Resembling a snail; moving very slowly.

SNA'IL-LIKE, adverb In the manner of a snail; slowly.

Snail-Trefoil

SNAIL-CLAVER, SNAIL-TREFOIL noun A plant of the genus Medicago.

Snake

SNAKE, noun A serpent of the oviparous kind, distinguished from a viper, says Johnson. But in America, the common and general name of serpents, and so the word is used by the poets.

SNAKE, verb transitive In seamen's language, to wind a small rope round a large one spirally, the small ropes lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one. This is called also worming.

Snakeroot

SNA'KEROOT, noun [snake and root.] A plant, a species of birth-wort, growing in North Am merica the Aristolochia serpentaria.

SNA'KE'SHEAD Iris, noun A plant with a lily shaped flower, or one leaf, shaped like an iris; the hermodactyl, or Iris tuberosa.

Snakeweed

SNA'KEWEED, noun [snake and weed.] A plant, bistort, of the genus Polygonum.

Snakewood

SNA'KEWOOD, noun [snake and wood.] The smaller branches of a tree, growing in the isle of Timor and other parts of the east, having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a certain remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent. It is the wood of the Slrychnos colubrina.

Snaking

SNA'KING, participle present tense WInding small ropes spirally round a large one.

Snaky

SNA'KY, adjective

1. Pertaining to a snake or to snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.

2. Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful. So to the coast of Jordan he directs his easy steps, girded with snaky wiles.

3. Having serpents; as a snaky rod or want. That sanky headed gorgon shield.

Snancel

SNAN'CEL, noun A rope to tie a cow's hind legs.

Snap

SNAP, verb transitive

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.

TO snap OFF,

1. To break suddenly.

2. To bite off suddenly.

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

SNAP, verb intransitive

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, noun

1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

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

3. A crack of a whip.

4. A greedly fellow.

5. A catch; a theft.

Snap-Dragon

SNAP'-DRAGON, noun

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

Snapped

SNAP'PED, participle passive Broken abruptly; seized or bitten suddenly; cracked, as a whip.

Snapper

SNAP'PER, noun One that snaps.

Snappish

SNAP'PISH, adjective

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

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

Snappishly

SNAP'PISHLY, adverb Peevishly; angrily; tartly.

Snappishness

SNAP'PISHNESS, noun The quality of being snappish; peeevishness; tartness.

Snapsack

SNAP'SACK, noun A knapsack. [Vulgar.]

Snar

SN'AR, verb intransitive To snarl. [Not in use.]

Snare

SNARE, noun

1. An instrument for catching animals, particularly fowls, by the leg. It consists of a cord or string with slip-knots, in which the leg is entangled. A snare is not a net.

2. Any thing by which one is entangled and brought into trouble. I Corinthians 7:35. A fool's lip are the snare of his soul. Proverbs 18:7.

SNARE, verb transitive To catch with a snare; to ensnare; to entangle; to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity or danger. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Psalms 9:16.

Snared

SNA'RED, participle passive Entangled; unexpectedly involved in difficulty.

Snarer

SNA'RER, noun One who lays snares or entangles.

Snaring

SNA'RING, participle present tense Entangling; ensnaring.

Snarl

SN'ARL, verb intransitive [This word seems to be allied to gnarl, and to proceed from some root signifyingto twist, bind, or fasten, or to involve, entangle, and thus to be allied to snare.]

1. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds; but it expresses more violence than grumble. That I should snarl and bit and play the dog.

2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude murmuring terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from with Virgil himself stands not exempted.

SN'ARL, verb transitive

1. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl the hair; to snarl a skain of thread. [This word is in universal popular use in New England.]

2. To embarrass.

SN'ARL, noun Entanglement; a knot or complication of hair, thread, etc., which it is difficult to disentangle.

Snarler

SN'ARLER, noun One who snarls; a surly growling animal; a grumbling quarrelsime fellow.

Snarling

SN'ARLING, participle present tense

1. Growling; grumblling angrily.

2. Entangling.

Snary

SNA'RY, adjective [from snare.] Entangling; insidious. Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread.

Snast

SNAST, noun The snuff of a candle. [Not in use.]

Snatch

SNATCH, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive snatched or snacht.

1. To seize hastily or abruptly. When half our knowledge we must snatch not take.

2. To seize without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a kiss.

3. To seize and transport away; as, snatch me to heaven.

SNATCH, verb intransitive To catch at; to attempt to seize suddenly. Nay, the ladies too will be snatching. He shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry. Isaiah 9:20.

SNATCH, noun

1. A hasty catch or seizing.

2. A catching at or attempt to seize suddenly.

3. A short fit of vigorous action; as a snatch as weeding after a shower.

4. A broken or interrupted action; a short fit or turn. They move by fits and snatches. We have often little snatches of sunshine.

5. A shuffling answer. [Little used.]

SNATCH'-BLOCK, noun A particular kind of block used in ships, having an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

Snatched

SNATCH'ED, participle passive Seized suddenly and violently.

Snatcher

SNATCH'ER, noun One that snatches or takes abruptly.

Snatching

SNATCH'ING, participle present tense Seized hastily or abruptly; catching at.

Snatchingly

SNATCH'INGLY, adverb By snatching; hastily; abruptly.

Snath

SN'ATH, noun The handle of a sythe.

Snathe

SNATHE, verb transitive To lop; to prune. [Not in use.]

Snattock

SNAT'TOCK, noun [supra.] A chip; a slice. [Not in use.]

Snead

SNEED, SNEAD noun A snath. [See Snath.]

Sneak

SNEAK, verb intransitive [See Snake.]

1. To creep or steal away privately; to withdraw meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company; to sneak into a corner or behind a screen. You skulk'd behind the fence, and sneak'd away.

2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude murmuring terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarly at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.

SNEAK, verb transitive To hide. [Not in use.]

SNEAK, noun A mean fellow.

Sneaker

SNE'AKER, noun A small vessel of drink.

Sneaking

SNE'AKING, participle present tense

1. Creeping away slily; stealing away.

2. adjective Mean; servile; crouching.

3. Meanly parsimonious; covetous; niggardly.

Sneakingly

SNE'AKINGLY, adverb In a sneaking manner; meanly.

Sneakingness

SNE'AKINGNESS, noun Meanness; niggardliness.

Sneakup

SNE'AKUP, noun A sneaking, cowardly, insidious fellow. [Not used.]

Sneap

SNEAP, verb transitive

1. To check; to reprove abruptly; to reprimand.

2. To nip.

Sneb

SNEB, verb transitive To check; to reprimand. [The same as sneap.]

Snecket

SNACK'ET, SNECK'ET, noun The hasp of a casement.

Sneed

SNEED, SNEAD, noun A snath. [See Snath.]

Sneek

SNEEK, noun The latch of a door. [Not in use.]

Sneer

SNEER, verb intransitive [from the root of Latin naris, nose; to turn up the nose.]

1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular cast or countenance; 'naso suspendere adunco.'

2. To insinuate contempt by covert expression. I could be content to be a little sneered at.

3. To utter with grimace.

4. To show mirth awkwardly.

SNEER, noun

1. A look of contempt, or a turning up of the nose to manifest contempt; a look of disdain, derision or ridicule.

2. An expression of ludicrous scorn.

Sneerer

SNEE'RER, noun One that sneers.

Sneerful

SNEE'RFUL, adjective Given to sneering. [Not in use.]

Sneering

SNEE'RING, participle present tense Manifesting contempt or scorn by turning up the nose, or by some grimace or significant look.

Sneeringly

SNEE'RINGLY, adverb With a look of contempt or scorn.

Sneeze

SNEEZE, verb intransitive

To emit air through the nose audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irriatation of the inner membrance of the nose. Thus snuff or any thing that tickles the nose, makes one sneeze

SNEEZE, noun A sudden and violent ejection of air through the nose with an audible sound.

Sneeze-Wort

SNEE'ZE-WORT, noun A plant, a species of Achillea, and another of Xeranthemum.

Sneezing

SNEE'ZING, participle present tense Emitting air from the nose audibly.

SNEE'ZING, noun The act of ejecting air violently and audibly through the nose; sternutation.

Snell

SNELL, adjective Active; brisk; nimble. [Not in use.]

Snet

SNET, noun The fat of a dear. [Local among sportsmen.]

Snew

SNEW, old preterit tense of snow.

Snib

SNIB, to nip or reprimand, is only a different spelling of sneb, sneap.

Snick

SNICK, noun A small cut or mark; a latch. [Not in use.] snick and snee, a combat with knives. [Not in use.]

[Snee is a Dutch contraction of snyden, to cut.]

Snicker

SNICK'ER, SNIG'GER, verb intransitive [This can have no connection with sneer. the elements and the sense are different.] To laugh slily; or to laugh in one's sleeve. [It is a word in common use in New WNgland, not easily defined. It signifies to laugh with small audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.]

Sniff

SNIFF, verb intransitive To draw air audibly up the nose. [See Snuff.]

SNIFF, verb transitive To draw in with the breath. [Not in use.]

SNIFF, noun Perception by the nose. [Not in use.]

Snift

SNIFT, verb intransitive To snort. [Not in use.]

Snig

SNIG, noun [See Snake.] A kind of eel.

Snigger

SNICK'ER, SNIG'GER, verb intransitive [This can have no connection with sneer. the elements and the sense are different.] To laugh slily; or to laugh in one's sleeve. [It is a word in common use in New WNgland, not easily defined. It signifies to laugh with small audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.]

Sniggle

SNIG'GLE, verb intransitive [supra.] To fish for eels, by thrusting the bait into their holes.

SNIG'GLE, verb transitive To snare; to catch.

Snip

SNIP, verb transitive To clip; to cut off the nip or neb, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors.

SNIP, noun

1. A clip; a single cut with shears or scissors.

2. A small shred.

3. Share; a snack. [A low word.]

Snipe

SNIPE, noun

1. A bird tha frequents the banks of rivers and the borders of fens, distinguished by the length of its bill; the scolopax gallinago.

2. A fool; a blockhead.

Snipper

SNIP'PER, noun One that snips or clips.

Snippet

SNIP'PET, noun A small part or share. [Not in use.]

Snipsnap

SNIPSNAP, a cant word, formed by repeating snap, and signifying a tart dialogue with quick replies.

Snite

SNITE, noun A snipe. [Not in use.]

SNITE, verb transitive To blow the nose. [Not in use.] In Scotland, snite the candle, snuff it.

Snivel

SNIVEL, noun sniv'l. Snot; mucus running from the nose.

SNIV'EL, verb intransitive

1. To run at the nose.

2. To cry as children, with snuffing or sniveling.

Sniveler

SNIV'ELER, noun

1. One that cries with sniveling.

2. One that weeps for slight causes, or manifests weakness by weeping.

Snively

SNIV'ELY, adjective Running at the nose; pitiful; whining.

Snod

SNOD, noun A fillet. [Not in use.]

Snook

SNOOK, verb intransitive To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Not in use.]

Snore

SNORE, verb intransitive [from the root of Latin naris, the nose or nostrils.] To breathe with a rough hoarse noise in sleep.

SNORE, noun A breathing with a harse noise in sleep.

Snorer

SNO'RER, noun One that snores.

Snoring

SNO'RING, participle present tense Respiring with a harsh noise.

Snort

SNORT, verb intransitive

1. To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as high spirited horses in prancing and play.

2. To snore. [Not common.]

SNORT, verb transitive To turn up in anger, scorn or derision, as the nose. [Unusual.]

Snorter

SNORT'ER, noun One that snorts; a snorer.

Snorting

SNORT'ING, participle present tense Forcing the air violently through the nose.

SNORT'ING, noun The act of forcing the air through the nose with violence and noise. Jeremiah 8:16.

Snot

SNOT, noun Mucus discharged from the nose.

SNOT, verb transitive To blow the nose.

Snotter

SNOT'TER, verb intransitive To snivel; to sob.

Snotty

SNOT'TY, adjective

1. Foul with snot.

2. Mean; dirty.

Snout

SNOUT, noun

1. The long projecting nose of a beast, as that of swine.

2. The nose of a man; in contempt.

3. The nozzle or end of a hollow pipe.

SNOUT, verb transitive To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Snouted

SNOUT'ED, adjective Having a snout.

Snouty

SNOUT'Y, adjective Resembling a beast's snout.

Snow

SNOW, noun [Latin nix, nivis; The Latin nivis, is contracted from nigis, like Eng. bow.]

1. Frozen vapor; watery particles congealed into white crystals in the air, and falling to the earth. When there is no wind, these crystals fall in flakes or unbroken collections, sometimes extremely beautiful.

2. A vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and fore-masts of a ship, and a third small mast just abaft the mainmast, carrying a try-sail.

SNOW, verb intransitive To fall in snow; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

SNOW, verb transitive To scatter like snow

Snow-Bird

SNOW-BIRD, noun A small bird whcih appears in the time of snow, of the genus Emberiza; called also snow-bunting. In the U. States, the snow-bird is the Fringilla nivalis.

Snow-Crowned

SNOW-CROWNED, adjective [snow and crown.] Crowned or having the top covered with snow.

Snow-Drift

SNOW-DRIFT, noun [snow and drift.] A bank of snow driven together by the wind.

Snow-Drop

SNOW-DROP, noun [snow and drop.] A plant bearing a white flower, cultivated in gardens for its beauty; the Galanthus nivalis.

Snow-Shoe

SNOW-SHOE, noun [snow and shoe.] A shoe or racket worn by men traveling on snow, to prevent their feet from sinking into the snow.

Snow-Slip

SNOW-SLIP, noun [snow and slip.] A large mass of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, and sometimes buries houses.

Snow-White

SNOW-WHITE, adjective [snow and white.] White as snow; very white.

Snowball

SNOWBALL, noun [snow and ball.] A round mass of snow, pressed or rolled together.

SNOWBALL TREE, noun A flowering shrub of the genus Virburnum; gelder rose.

Snowbroth

SNOWBROTH, noun [snow and broth.] Snow and water mixed; very cold liquor.

Snowdeep

SNOWDEEP, noun [snow and deep.] A plant.

Snowless

SNOWLESS, adjective Destitute of snow.

Snowlike

SNOWLIKE, adjective Resembling snow.

Snowy

SNOWY, adjective

1. White like snow.

2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. The snowy top of cold Olympus.

3. White; pure; unblemished.

Snub

SNUB, noun A knot or protuberance in wood; a snag. [Not in use.]

SNUB, verb transitive [supra.]

1. To nip; to clip or break off the end. Hence,

2. To check; to reprimand; to check, stop or rebuke with a tart sarcastic reply or remark. [This is the same word radically as sneap, sneb, and is the word chiefly used.]

SNUB'-NOSE, noun A short or flat nose.

SNUB'-NOSED, adjective Having a short flat nose.

Snudge

SNUDGE, verb intransitive [See Snug.] To lie close; to snug. [Not in use.]

SNUDGE, noun A miser, or a sneaking fellow. [Not in use.]

Snuff

SNUFF, noun [allied to snub, neb, nib.]

1. The burning part of a candle wick, or that which has been charred by the flame, whether burning or not.

2. A candle almost burnt out.

3. Pulverized tobacco, taken or prepared to be taken into the nose.

4. Resentment; huff, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.

SNUFF, verb transitive

1. To draw in with the breath; to inhale; as, to snuff the wind.

2. To scent; to smell; to perceive by the nose.

3. To crop the snuff as of a candle; to take off the end of the snuff

SNUFF, verb intransitive

1. To snort; to inhale air with violence or with noise; as dogs and horses.

2. To turn up the nose and inhale air in contempt. Malachi 1:13.

3. To take offense.

Snuffbox

SNUFF'BOX, noun A box for carrying snuff about the person.

Snuffer

SNUFF'ER, noun One that snuffs.

Snuffers

SNUFFERS, noun plural An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle.

Snuffle

SNUF'FLE, verb intransitive To speak through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose, or through the nose when obstructed. Some senseless Phillis, in a broken not, SnuffLing at nose.

Snuffler

SNUF'FLER, noun One that snuffles or speaks through the nose when obstructed.

Snuffles

SNUF'FLES, noun Obstruction of the nose by mucus.

Snuffling

SNUF'FLING, noun A speaking through the nose.

Snufftaking

SNUFF'TAKING, noun One that takes snuff, or inhales in into the nose.

Snuffy

SNUFF'Y, adjective Soiled with snuff.

Snug

SNUG, verb intransitive [See Snake.] To lie close; as, a child snugs to its mother or nurse.

SNUG, adjective

1. Lying close; closely pressed; as, an infant lies snug

2. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice. At Will's lie snug and hear what critics say.

3. Being in good order; all convenient; neat; as a snug little farm.

4. Close; neat; convenient; as a snug house.

5. Slily or insidiously close. When you lay snug to snap young Damon's goat.

Snuggle

SNUG'GLE, verb intransitive [from snug.] To move one way and the other to get a close place; to lie close for convenience or warmth.

Snugly

SNUG'LY, adverb Closely; safely.

Snugness

SNUG'NESS, noun Closeness; the state of being neat or convenient.

So

SO, adverb [Latin sic, contracted. It is from some root signifying to set, to still, and this sense is retained in the use of the word by milkmaids, who say to cows, so so that is, stand still, remain as you are; and in this use, the word may be the original verb.]

1. In like manner, answering to as, and noting comparison or resemblance; as with the people, so with the priest.

2. In such a degree; to that degree. Why is his chariot so long in coming? Judges 5:28.

3. In such a manner; sometimes repeated, so and so; as certain colors, mingled so and so

4. It is followed by as. There is something equivalent in France and Scotland; so as it is a hard calumny upon our soil to affirm that so excellent a fruit will not grow here. But in like phrases, we now use that; 'so that it is a hard calumny; ' and this may be considered as the extablished usage.

5. In the smae manner. Use your tutor with great respect, and cause all your family to do so too.

6. Thus; in this manner; as New York so called from the duke of York. I know not why it is, but so it is. It concerns every man, with the greatest seriousness, to inquire whether theese thing are so or not.

7. Therefore; thus; for this reason; in consequence of this or that. It leaves instruction, and so instructors, to the sobriety fo the settled articles of the church. God makes him in own image an intelectual creature, and so capable of dominion. This statute made the clipping of coin hign treason, which it was not at common law; so that this was an enlarging staute.

8. On these terms, noting a conditional petition. Here then exchange we mutually forgiveness; so may the guilt of all my broken vows, my perjuries to thee be all forgotten. so here might be expressed by thus, that is, in this manner, by this mutual forgiveness.

9. Provided that; on condition that, [Latin modo.] so the doctrine by but wholesome and edifying though there should be a want of exactness in the manner of speaking and resoning, it may be overlooked. I care not who furnishes the means, so they are furnished.

10. In like manner, noting the concession of one proposition of fact and the assumption of another; answering to as. As a war should be undertaken upon a just motive, so a prince ought to consider the condition he is in when he enters on it.

11. so often expresses the sense of a word or sentence going before. In this case it prevents a repetition, and may be considered as a substitute for the word or phrase. 'France is highly cultivated, but England is more so ' that is, more highly cultivated.

12. Thus; thus it is; this is the state. How sorrow shakes him! so now the tempest tears him up by th' roots.

13. Well; the fact being such. And so the work is done, is it?

14. It is sometimes used to express a certain degree, implying comparison, and yet without the corresponding word as, to render the degree definite. An astringent is not quite so proper, where relaxing the urinary passages is necessary.

15. It is sometimes equivalent to be it so let it be so let it be as it is, or in that manner. There is Percy; if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself.

16. It expresses a wish, desire or petition. Ready are the appellant and defendant- so please your highness to behold the fight.

17. so much as, however much. Instead of so we now generally use as; as much as, that much; whatever the quantity may be.

18. so so or so repeated, used as a kind of exclamation; equivalent to well, well; or it is so the thing is done. so so it works; now, mistress, sit you fast.

19. so so much as it was; indifferently; not well not much amiss. His leg is but so so

20. so then, thus then it is; therefore; the consequence is. so then the Volscians stand; but as at first ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road upon's again.

Soak

SOAK, verb transitive

1. To steep; to cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other fluid; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread.

2. To drench; to wet thoroughly. The earth is soaked with heavy rain. Their land shall be soaked with blood. Isaiah 34:7.

3. To draw in by the pores; as the skin.

4. To drain. [Not authirized.]

SOAK, verb intransitive

1. To lie steeped in water or other fluid. Let the cloth lie and soak

2. To enter into pores or interstices. Water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.

3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously; to drench; as a soaking club. [Low.]

Soaked

SOAKED, participle passive Steeped or macerated in a fluid; drenched.

Soaker

SOAKER, noun

1. One that soaks or macerates in a liquid.

2. A hard drinker. [Low.]

Soaking

SOAKING, participle present tense

1. Steeping; macerating; drenching; imbibing.

2. adjective That wets thoroughly; as a soaking rain.

Soal

SOAL, of a show. [See Sole.]

Soap

SOAP, noun [Latin sapo.] A compound of oil and alkali, or oil and earth, and metallic oxyds; usually, a compound of oil and vegetable alkali or lye; used in washing and cleansing, in medicine, etc.

SOAP, verb transitive To rub or wash over with soap

SOAPHERRY TREE, noun A tree of the genus Sapindus.

Soap-Boiler

SOAP-BOILER, noun [soap and boiler.] One whose occupation is to make soap.

Soap-Suds

SOAP-SUDS, noun Suds; water well impregnated with soap.

Soapstone

SOAPSTONE, noun Steatite; a minera; or species of magnesian earth, usually white or yellow; ; the lapis ollaris.

Soapwort

SOAPWORT, noun A plant of the genus Saponaria.

Soapy

SOAPY, adjective

1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soft and smooth.

2. Smeared with soap.

Soar

SOAR, verb intransitive

1. To fly aloft; to mount upon the wing; as an eagle. Hence,

2. To rise high; to mount; to tower in thought or imagination; to be sublime; as the poet or orator.

3. To rise high in ambition or heroism. Valor soars above what the world calls misfortune.

4. In general, to rise aloft; to be lofty.

SOAR, noun A towering flight.

Soaring

SOARING, participle present tense Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.

SOARING, noun The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.

Sob

SOB, verb intransitive To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with deep sorrow or with tears. She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and furious wtih despair, she rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

SOB, noun A convulsive sign or catching of the breath in sorrow; a convulsive act of respiration obstructed by sorrow. Break, heart, or choke with sobs my hated breath.

SOB, verb transitive To soak. [Not in use.]

Sobbing

SOB'BING, participle present tense sighing with a heaving of the breast.

Sober

SO'BER, adjective [Latin sobrius.]

1. Temperate in the use of spiritous liquors; habitually temperate; as a sober man. Live a sober righteous and godly life.

2. Not intoxicated or overpowered by spiritous liquors; not drunken. The sot may at times be sober

3. Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary or heated with passion; having the regular exercise of cool dispassionate reason. There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Not sober man would put himself in danger, for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.

4. Regular; calm; not under the influence of passion; as sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.

5. Serious; solemn; grave; as the sober livery of autumn. What parts gay France from sober Spain? See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.

SO'BER, verb transitive TO make sober; to cure of intoxication. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain and drinking largely sobers us again.

Sobered

SO'BERED, participle passive Make sober.

Soberly

SO'BERLY, adverb

1. Without intemperance.

2. Without enthusiasm.

3. Without intemperate passion; coolly; calmly; moderately.

4. Gravely; seriously.

Soberminded

SO'BERMINDED, adjective Having a disposition or tempter habitually sober, calm and temperate.

Soberminedness

SO'BERMINEDNESS, n, Calmness; freedon from inordinate passions; habitual sobriety.

Soberness

SO'BERNESS, noun

1. Freedom from intoxication; temperance.

2. Gravity; seriousness.

3. Freedom from heat and passion; calmness; coolness. The soberness of Virgil might have shown him the difference.

Sobriety

SOBRI'ETY, noun [Latin sobrietas, from sobrius.]

1. Habitual soberness or temperance in the use of spirituous liquors; as when we say. a man of sobriety

2. Freedom from intoxication. Public sobriety is a relative duty.

3. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; as the sobriety of riper years; the sobriety of age.

4. Seriousness; gravity without sadness or melancholy. Mirth makes them not mad, nor sobriety sad.

Soc

SOC, noun [Latin sequor.]

1. Properly, the sequela, secta or suit, or the body of suitors; hence, the power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in a manor; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

2. Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

3. An exclusive privilege claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.

Socage

SOC'AGE, noun [from soc, supra, a privilege.] In English law, a tenure of lands and tenements by a cetain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the render was uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage; as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. socage is of two kinds; free socage where the services are not only certain, but honorable, and villein socage where the services, though certain, are of a baser nature.

Socager

SOC'AGER, noun A tenant by socage; a socman.

Sociability

SOCIABIL'ITY, noun Sociableness; disposition to associate and converse with others; or the practive of familiar converse.

Sociable

SO'CIABLE, adjective [Latin sociabilis, from socius, a companion, probably from sequor, to follow. See Seek.]

1. That may be conjoined; fit to be united in one body or company; as sociable parts united in one body.

2. Ready or disposed to unite in a general interest. To make man mild, and sociable to man.

3. Ready and inclined to join in company or society; or frequently meeting for conversation; as sociable neighbors.

4. Inclined to converse when in company; disposed to freedom in conversation; opposed to reserved and taciturn.

5. Free in conversation; conversing much or familiarly. The guests were very sociable

Sociableness

SO'CIABLENESS, noun Disposition to associate; inclination to company and converse; or actual frequent union in society or free converse. This word may signify either the disposition to associate, or the disposition to enter into familiar conversation, or the actual practice of associating and conversing.

Sociably

SO'CIABLY, adverb In a sociable manner; with free intercourse; conversibly; familiarly; as a companion.

Social

SO'CIAL, adjective [Latin socialis, from socius, companion.]

1. Pertaining to society; relating to men living in society. or to the publice as an aggregate body; as social interests or concerns; social pleasures; social benefits; social happiness; social duties. True self-love and social are the same.

2. Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable. Withers, adieu? yet not with thee remove thy martial spirit or thy social love.

3. Consisting in union or mutual converse.

4. Disposed to unite in society. Man is a social being.

Sociality

SOCIAL'ITY, noun Socialness; the quality of being social.

Socially

SOCIALLY, adverb In a social manner or way.

Socialness

SOCIALNESS, noun The quality of being social.