Hypertext Webster Gateway: "snapping"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Snap \Snap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Snapping}.] [LG. or D. snappen to snap up, to snatch; akin
to G. schnappen, MHG. snaben, Dan. snappe, and to D. snavel
beak, bill. Cf. {Neb}, {Snaffle}, n.]
1. To break at once; to break short, as substances that are
brittle.

Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. --Prior.

2. To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

3. To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.

He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has
been snapped by it at last. --South.

4. To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat
snappishly; -- usually with up. --Granville.

5. To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to
snap a whip.

MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. --Sir W.
Scott.

6. To project with a snap.

{To snap back} (Football), to roll the ball back with the
foot; -- done only by the center rush, who thus delivers
the ball to the quarter back on his own side when both
sides are ranged in line.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Snapping \Snap"ping\,
a. & n. from {Snap}, v.

{Snapping beetle}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Snap beetle}, under
{Snap}.

{Snapping turtle}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A large and voracious aquatic turtle ({Chelydra
serpentina}) common in the fresh waters of the United
States; -- so called from its habit of seizing its prey
by a snap of its jaws. Called also {mud turtle}.
(b) See {Alligator snapper}, under {Alligator}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

snapping
adj : having a series of short sharp noises; "longed for a big
fire with snapping logs"; "folding a crackling
newspaper" [syn: {crackling}]


Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup

Enter word here:
Exact Approx


dict.stokkie.net
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents; see the Webster Gateway FAQ, and also the Back-end/database links and credits.