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.

Related words: (words related to SNOUT)

• 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.