Word Meanings - SNARLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
from Snarl, v. Snarling iron, a tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives
Additional info about word: SNARLING
from Snarl, v. Snarling iron, a tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives the requisite blow for producing raised work. See 1st Snarl.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SNARLING)
- Cross
- Ill-tempered
- fretful
- illhumored
- crusty
- peevish
- pettish
- snarling
- snappish
- spleeny
- splenetic
- petulant
- fractious
- Cynical
- Sarcastic
- sneering
- cross-grained
- currish
- carping
Related words: (words related to SNARLING)
- CARPET
packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be - CARPOGENIC
Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed. - CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - CARPETBAG
A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet. - SPLEENY
1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - CARPER
One who carps; a caviler. Shak. - ILL-TEMPERED
1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - CARPETING
1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott. - CROSS-VAULTING
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults. - CROSSLEGGED
Having the legs crossed. - CROSSHEAD
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it - CROSS-BUTTOCK
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - HYPOCARP; HYPOCARPIUM
A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew. - SYNCARPIUM
See SYNCARP - SNARL
To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface. - EXOCARP
The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe. - MERICARP
One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.