Definition of snap

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Snap (v. i.) 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..

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Grunt :: Grunt (n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken..
Snap :: Snap (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle..
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps..
Snaphead :: Snaphead (n.) 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..
Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip..
Snap :: Snap (n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth..
Currish :: Currish (a.) Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal..
Snaggy :: Snaggy (a.) Snappish; cross; ill-tempered.
Sea Lawyer :: Sea lawyer () The gray snapper. See under Snapper.
Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A snap beetle.
Snapper :: Snapper (n.) 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..
Labiatifloral :: Labiatifloral (a.) Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon..
Snap :: Snap (v. t.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
Snape :: Snape (v. t.) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon..
Personate :: Personate (a.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon..
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps..
Coyote :: Coyote (n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl..
Crusty :: Crusty (a.) Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly..
Snapweed :: Snapweed (n.) See Impatiens.
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