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|Snake ||n||A somewhat long-bodied reptile without legs, of which some are able to give a poisonous bite. 2. a false friend; a person who turns, suddenly and unexpectedly, against others. |
|Snake ||n||A somewhat long-bodied reptile without legs, of which some are able to give a poisonous bite. 2. a false friend; a person who turns, suddenly and unexpectedly, against others. |
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|Sneezed ||phr||"Not to be Sneezed at." -- important, great, enough to be taken into account and consideration. |
|Sneezed ||phr||"Not to be Sneezed at." -- important, great, enough to be taken into account and consideration. |
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|Sneezewort ||n||Achillea ptarmica: the wild pelitory or a kind of yarrow, the dried leaves of which are powdered and used to induce sneezing as a sternutatory. |
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+ | |Snell ||adj||Of persons or animals, quick in movement or action, prompt, active, smart, strenuous, good. 2. keen-witted, clever, sharp, acute, aware. 4. of weather, bitter, severe, bleak. 5. of matters and condition, grievous, heavy, stinging, naggingly painful. 6. of taste, sharp, bitter, pungent, biting. 7. of voice, shrill, clear-sounding. 8. of action, quick, prompt, vigorous, strong. |
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|Snow ||vb||To fall, throw down, strew or cover with snow. 2. to cause the hair to turn the color of snow. |
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Revision as of 09:33, 29 December 2018
Old English | n | English |
Snail | n | Various sorts of mollusc (esp. ones found in gardens, having a screw-like shell and very slow in motion 2. tortoise, turtle, slug. 3. used allusively to (somewhat) vehemently) the exceptionally slow. 3. an indolent person. 4. structure or formation resembling that of a snail or a testudian. 5. a formation resembling the letter "D" limacon. 5. a flat, spirally curved piece of metal or other material. |
Snail butter | n | |
Snail king | n | |
Snail kite | n | |
Snailfish | n | |
Snailish | adj | |
Snailless | adj | |
Snaillike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a snail, or some aspect of one. |
Snailshell | n | |
Snaily | adj | |
Snailwort | n | |
Snaily | adj | Resembling a snail or its motions. |
Snake | n | A somewhat long-bodied reptile without legs, of which some are able to give a poisonous bite. 2. a false friend; a person who turns, suddenly and unexpectedly, against others. |
Snake | phr | "Snakes Alive!" |
Snake | phr | "Snakes and Ladders" |
Snake | phr | "Snake Bite and Black" - "? |
Snake | phr | "Snake in the Grass" - a treacherous person, secret or hidden enemy. |
Snake bean | n | |
Snakeberry | n | |
Snakebird | n | An anhinga or darter, Anhinga ahinga. |
Snake bit | n | |
Snake bite | n | |
Snake-bitten | adj | |
Snake board | n | |
Snakedom | n | |
Snake eel | n | |
Snake eyes | n | |
Snakefish | n | |
Snakefly | n | |
Snake-fright | n | Snake-shy |
Snake hawk | n | |
Snakehead | n | |
Snakehood | n | |
Snakeless | n | |
Snakelike | n | |
Snakeline | n | |
Snakeling | n | |
Snakemeat | n | |
Snakemouth | n | |
Snakeneck | n | |
Snakepit | n | A pit containing snakes. 2. a scene of vicious behavior. |
Snakeroot | n | Any of various North American plants with roots reputed to contain an antidote to snake's poison, Aristolochia serpentaria. |
Snakeskin | n | The skin of a snake. |
Snakeskin | adj | Made of or resembling snakeskin. |
Snakestone | n | |
Snakeweed | n | A perennial plant with twisted roots ; bistort or adder's wort. |
Snake wine | n | |
Snakewise | adv | |
Snakewood | n | |
Snakewort | n | Conocephalum salebrosum; Dorestenia contrejerva. |
Snakily | adv | |
Snakish | adj | |
Snakishness | n | |
Snaky | adj | Of or like a snake. 2. winding, sinuous. 3. showing coldness, ingratitude, venom or bile. 4. infested with or composed of snakes. 5. angry, irascible, irritable. |
Snead | n | The shaft or pole of a scythe used by one who sneads. 2. a dweller by a clearing or piece of woodland; a piece of land; a clearing. |
Snead | vb | To cut or lop off a branch, to prune. 2. Fig, to cull, reduce in number, decrease, pluck out, select, shift, kill. |
Sneeze | n | A sudden, loud, uncontrolled sound made in clearing the nose. |
Sneezed | phr | "Not to be Sneezed at." -- important, great, enough to be taken into account and consideration. |
Sneeze wood | n | A small South African tree, the sawdust of which causes sneezing. |
Sneezewort | n | Achillea ptarmica: the wild pelitory or a kind of yarrow, the dried leaves of which are powdered and used to induce sneezing as a sternutatory. |
Snell | adj | Of persons or animals, quick in movement or action, prompt, active, smart, strenuous, good. 2. keen-witted, clever, sharp, acute, aware. 4. of weather, bitter, severe, bleak. 5. of matters and condition, grievous, heavy, stinging, naggingly painful. 6. of taste, sharp, bitter, pungent, biting. 7. of voice, shrill, clear-sounding. 8. of action, quick, prompt, vigorous, strong. |
Snese | vb | To run through with a weapon. |
Snice | n | A mixture of snow and ice. |
Snike | n | Reptiles.? |
Snike | vb | Creep or crawl like a reptile. |
Snite | vb | OE. snite: to snipe: to shoot at enemy for cover or concealment. 2. as a term of abuse or abuse: direct cutting or nasty remarks at others. |
Snite | vb | To clean or wipe the nose, esp. by means of the thumb or finger. 2. to snuff out a candle. 3. fig. to weak or pull. |
Snithe | vb | To kill, to cut, to hew, to pierce, to kill by cutting. |
Snithing | n | Cutting, hewing,nipping, piercing with a sharp instrument. 2. killing, snuffing out, wiping out. |
Sniting | n | The cleaning or wiping the nose with parts of the hand, thumb, fingers etc. |
Snivel | vb | O.E snyflung. |
Snode | n | A piece, a bit, morsel, tidbit, morsel. |
Snood | n | (O.E: Snod) a thread. a band or ribbon for confining the hair; later, the distinctive hair band worn by unmarried women. 2. a fine, short line fixing a fish-hook to a long line. |
Snoter | adj | Wise, learned, skillful. |
Snough | n | Coughing and sneezing simultaneosly. |
Snow | n | Water, frozen vapor from the air turned into ice and falling to earth in soft, white, light flakes. 2. taken as a type of whiteness; pure white, snow white. 3. a fall of snow, snow storm. 4. as a marking a period of time; a winter. 5. an accumulation, expanse or field of snow. 6. "The Snows." -- The Arctic Regions. 7. the white hair of age. 8. the white bloom or blossom; spray or foam. 8. cocaine. |
Snow | vb | To fall, throw down, strew or cover with snow. 2. to cause the hair to turn the color of snow. |
Snow | phr | "Snowed Down" - |
Snow | phr | "Snowed In" - |
Snow | phr | "Snowed Out" - |
Snow | phr | "Snowed Under" - to be overwhelmed with work. |
Snow | phr | "Snowed Up" - to be isolated or blocked by snow. |
Snow | phr | "Snow on the Roof" - |
Snow apple | n | |
Snow bear | n | |
Snow bed | n | |
Snow bell | n | |
Snowberry | n | Any of the various shrubs with white berries, esp. the ornamental Symphoricarpus albus. |
Snowbird | n | |
Snowblade | n | |
Snowblading | n | |
Snowblind | adj | Temporary blinded by the glare of light reflected by large expanses of snow. |
Snowblindness | n | The condition of being temporary blinded by the glare of light reflected by large expanses of snow. |
Snow-blower | n | A machine that clears snow by blowing it to the side of the road. |
Snowboard | n | A wide ski used for sliding downhill on snow. |
Snow-boarding | n | |
Snowbound | adj | |
Snow-broth | n | Snow melted; water obtained by the melting of snow. |
Snow cat | n | |
Snowcrab | n | |
Snowcraft | n | The art of traveling or living in snow or snowy regions. |
Snowdog | n | |
Snow-drift | n | A heap or mass of snow driven together, or piled up by the actions of the wind. 2. a driving mass or cloud of snow. 3. a snow-wreath.???? |
Snow-drop | n | A bulbous plant with white flowers in early spring, Galanthys nivalis. |
Snowfall | n | A fall of snow . 2. meteorology, the amount of snow that falls on one occasion or on a given time within a given area. |
Snowfield | n | A permanent wide expanse of snow in mountainous or polar regions. |
Snow fight | n | |
Snow free | n | |
Snow flea | n | |
Snowfolk | n | |
Snow-go | n | A snowmobile. |
Snowgoing | adj | |
Snow goose | n | A white arctic goose, Ansero Caerulescens with black-tipped wings. |
Snowgrass | n | |
Snowhole | n | |
Snow-ice | n | Opaque white ice formed from melted snow. |
Snowily | adv | |
Snowiness | n | |
Snowing | n | |
Snowish | adj | |
Snow kite | n | |
Snow lady | n | |
Snowless | adj | |
Snowlessness | n | |
Snowlight | n | |
Snowlike | adj | |
Snow-line | n | The general level on mountains etc., above which the snow never completely disappears; the lower level of perpetual snow. |
Snowload | n | |
Snow maker | n | |
Snow-making | n | The production of artificial snow. |
Snowman | n | A figure resembling a man made from snow. |
Snow melt | n | |
Snow pit | n | |
Snow plow | n | A device or vehicle equiTemporary blinded by the glare of light reflected by large expanses of snow.ed with one, for clearing roads of thick snow. |
Snow-sheen | n | Snow-blink: the reflection from snow or ice-fields in polar regions |
Snow sheep | n | |
Snowshoe | n | A flat device like a racquet attached to a boot for walking on snow without sinking. |
Snowshoe hare | n | A north American hare, Lepus americanus, with large hind feet and a white coat in winter. |
Snow shower | n | |
Snow-sleep | n | A somnolent condition induced by walking in the snow. |
Snow slide | n | An avalanche; snowslip. |
Snow snake | n | |
Snow storm | n | A heavy fall of snow, especially with a high wind. |
Snow stormy | adj | |
Snowswept | adj | |
Snow thrower | n | |
Snowtime | n | |
Snow-topped | adj | |
Snow under | vb | To bury in snow; fig. to submerge, overwhelm, overpower. |
Snow up | vb | To block, obstruct, incommode, imprison, esp. with snow. |
Snow wear | n | |
Snow-white | adj | A pure white color. |
Snow-wort | n | Abrotanella nivigena. (snowwort). |
Snow wreath | n | A heap of snow blown together by the wind; a snow-drift. |
Snowy | adj | Of weather, characterized by the prevalence or presence of snow. 2. composed of melted snow, consisting, formed or made from snow. 3. covered by snow, abounding in snow or snowiness. 4. resembling snow; of or like snow, snow-white. |
Snowy owl | n | A large white owl, Nyctea scandiaca native to the Arctic. |
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