Word Meanings - SNOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
cf. LG. snute, D. snuit, G. schnauze, Sw. snut, snyte, Dan. snude, Icel. sn to blow the nose; probably akin to E. snuff, v.t. Cf. Snite, 1. The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine. 2. The nose of a man; -- in contempt. Hudibras. 3. The
Additional info about word: SNOUT
cf. LG. snute, D. snuit, G. schnauze, Sw. snut, snyte, Dan. snude, Icel. sn to blow the nose; probably akin to E. snuff, v.t. Cf. Snite, 1. The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine. 2. The nose of a man; -- in contempt. Hudibras. 3. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles. Snout beetle , any one of many species of beetles having an elongated snout and belonging to the tribe Rhynchophora; a weevil. -- Snout moth , any pyralid moth. See Pyralid.
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- BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - PROJECTION
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction - BEASTLIKE
Like a beast. - PROJECTMENT
Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon. - BEASTLINESS
The state or quality of being beastly. - BEASTINGS
See BIESTINGS - CONTEMPTIBLY
In a contemptible manner. - CONTEMPTUOUSLY
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor. - SWINEBREAD
The truffle. - CONTEMPTUOUS
Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. - SNUFFLER
One who snuffles; one who uses cant. - CONTEMPT
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the - SNUFFLE
To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. Dryden. - CONTEMPTIBLENESS
The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised. - PROJECTURE
A jutting out beyond a surface. - SNUFF
The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup. Swift. - SWINEHERD
A keeper of swine. - SWINECOTE
A hogsty. - SWINECASE
A hogsty. - SWINESTONE
See STINKSTONE - UNPROBABLY
Improbably. - BESNUFF
To befoul with snuff. Young. - SEA BEAST
Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.