Ridiculously small; petty.

Like a snipe.

To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle.

Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind.

Mucus from the nose; snot.

One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.

Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.

The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.

Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

Snobbery.

Snobbish.

A little snob.

Snobs, collectively.

Trimmed; smooth; neat; trim; sly; cunning; demure.

A short candle end used for igniting a fuse.

To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.

Wearing or having a snood.

A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo. The cobia. The garfish.

To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.

A harsh nasal noise made in sleep.

One who snores.

The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.

To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.

One who snorts.

To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.

A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.

Filth; abomination.

Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.

To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Resembling a beast's snout.

To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.

Enveloped in, or confined by, snow.

Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor.

Having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow-capped mountains.

White as snow; very white.

To throw snowballs.

A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America.

An arctic finch (Plectrophenax nivalis syn. Plectrophanes nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight. Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially Junco hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco. The fieldfare.

A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

A bank of drifted snow.

A bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty.

A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.

See Snowbird, 1.

The hooded merganser.

Destitute of snow.

An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.

A shelter to protect from snow, esp. a long roof over an exposed part of a railroad.

A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.

Traveling on snowshoes.

One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.

A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.

A storm with falling snow.

White like snow.

A knot; a protuberance; a song.

Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.

A miser; a sneaking fellow.

The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.

One who snuffs.

An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

In a snuffing manner.

The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.

One who snuffles; one who uses cant.

Soiled with snuff.

To place snugly.

A snug, cozy place.

To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.

In a snug manner; closely; safely.

The quality or state of being snug.

An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.

A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.

Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.

So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).

Tolerably; passably.

To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.

The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

One who, or that which, soaks.

Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.

Full of moisture; wet; soppy.

A dirty pond.

A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.

To rub or wash over with soap.

Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.

Quality or state of being soapy.

A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.

See Steatite, and Talc.

Suds made with soap.

A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.

Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.

See Sore, reddish brown.

a. n. from Soar.

Sweet.

Sweetly.

The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.

A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.

To become sober; -- often with down.

Having a disposition or temper habitually sober.

To sober.

Grave; serious; solemn; sad.

The quality or state of being sober.

A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances. A sucker, as of tree or shrub.

Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.

The unicameral national assembly of Bulgaria, elected for a term of five years by universal suffrage of adult males.

Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.

An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.

The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.

A tennant by socage; a socman.

The quality of being sociable; sociableness.

A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.

The quality of being sociable.

In a sociable manner.

Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.

A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism.

One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.

The quality of being social; socialness.

To render social.