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Snap :: 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..

Elater :: Elater (n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle..

Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger..

Snap :: Snap (n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up..

Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A snap beetle.

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..

Snap :: Snap (n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound..

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..

Snipper-snaper :: Snipper-snaper (n.) A small, insignificant fellow..

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..

Crusty :: Crusty (a.) Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly..

Snapper :: Snapper (n.) A snap beetle.

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..

Snip-snap :: Snip-snap (a.) Quick; short; sharp; smart.

Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Palate :: Palate (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

Waspish :: Waspish (a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

Snapper :: Snapper (n.) One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip..

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon..

Snapweed :: Snapweed (n.) See Impatiens.

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