Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SNEAK-ING, ppr.

1. Creeping away slily; stealing away.
2. adj. Mean; servile; crouching.
3. Meanly parsimonious; covetous; niggardly.

SNEAK-ING-LY, adv.

In a sneaking manner; meanly. – Herbert.

SNEAK-ING-NESS, n.

Meanness; niggardliness. Boyle.

SNEAK-UP, n.

A sneaking, cowardly, insidious fellow. [Not used.] – Shak.

SNEAP, v.t. [Dan. snibbe, reproach, reprimand; snip, the end or point of a thing; D. snip, a snipe, from its bill; snippen, to snip or nip; G. schneppe, a peak; from the root of neb, nib, nap, with the sense of shooting out, thrusting like a sharp point.]

1. To check; to reprove abruptly; to reprimand. [Obs.] – Chaucer.
2. To nip. [Obs.] – Shak.

SNEB, v.t.

To check; to reprimand. [The same Sneap.] – Spenser.

SNEED, or SNEAD, n.

A snath. [See Snath.]

SNEEK, n.

The latch of a door. [Not in use or local.]

SNEER, n.

1. A look of contempt, or turning up of the nose to manifest contempt; a look of disdain, derision, or ridicule. – Pope.
2. An expression of ludicrous scorn. – Watts.

SNEER, v.i. [from the root of L. naris, nose; to turn up the nose.]

1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular cast of countenance; “naso suspendere adunco.”
2. To insinuate contempt by a covert expression. I could be content to be a little sneered at. – Pope.
3. To utter with grimace. – Congreve.
4. To show mirth awkwardly. – Tatler.

SNEER-ER, n.

One that sneers.

SNEER-FUL, a.

Given to sneering. [Not in use.] – Shenstone.

SNEER-ING, ppr.

Manifesting contempt or scorn by turning up the nose, or by some grimace or significant look.

SNEER-ING-LY, adv.

With a look of contempt or scorn.

SNEEZE, n.

A sudden and violent ejection of air through the nose with an audible sound. – Milton.

SNEEZE, v.i. [Sax. niesan; D. niezen; G. niesen; Sw. nysa; from the root of nose, G. nase, Dan. næse, D. neus, L. nasus; the primary sense of which is to project.]

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

SNEEZE-WORT, n.

A plant. The popular name of several different plants; as of a species of Achillea, of Xeranthemum, &c.

SNEEZ-ING, n.

The act of ejecting air violently and audibly through the nose; sternutation.

SNEEZ-ING, ppr.

Emitting air from the nose audibly.

SNELL, a. [Sax. snel.]

Active; brisk; nimble. [Not in use.]

SNET, n.

The fat of a deer. [Local among sportsmen.]

SNEW, v. [old pret. of Snow.]

[Obs.] – Chaucer.

SNIB, v.

To nip or reprimand, is only a different spelling of Sneb, Sneap. – Hubbard's Tale.

SNICK, n.

A small cut or mark; a latch. [Not in use.]

SNICK-AND-SNEE, n. [Snick and snee.]

A combat with knives. [Not in use.] [Snee is a Dutch contraction of snyden, to cut.]