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▪ I. snarling, vbl. n.1|ˈsnɑːlɪŋ|
[f. snarl v.1]
1. The action of snaring, entangling, or twisting. Also attrib. in snarling-net.
c1440Promp. Parv. 461/2 Snarynge, or snarlynge, illaqueacio. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 83 This world is..a snarling net, wherein thousands are taken. 1615Markham Pleas. Prin. ii. (1635) 8 Twist your hayres..without eyther snarling, or gaping one from another. 1853Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 831 Thus preventing a snarling or damage of the yarn.
2. (See quot.) rare—1.
1750W. Ellis Mod. Husb. III. iii. 88 Some [sheets] are made of the worst sort of hemp, called Snarlings.
▪ II. snarling, vbl. n.2|ˈsnɑːlɪŋ|
[f. snarl v.2]
The action of the vb., in various senses; the sound produced by this.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Gañido, the snarling of a dogge. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. v. iv, We three vnto the snarling Iland hast, And there our vexed breath in snarling wast. 1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 401 The bussing of Bees, or snarling of Wolues. 1672Sir T. Browne Let. Friend 143 His sober contempt of the world wrought..no laughing or snarling at it. 1806Sir C. Bell Anat. Expression 90 This action of snarling is quite peculiar to the ferocious and carnivorous animals. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxii, There was no care that certain snarlings..should be strictly inaudible.
attrib.1806Sir C. Bell Anat. Expression 90 In the carnivorous animal the muscles of the lips are so directed as to raise the lip from the canine teeth... The former I would take the liberty of distinguishing by the name of Ringentes, snarling muscles.
▪ III. snarling, vbl. n.3|ˈsnɑːlɪŋ|
[Cf. snarl v.3]
A method of producing raised work in metal by means of indirect percussion. Chiefly attrib. in snarling-iron, snarling-tool.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 259/2 Terms of Art used by the Gold-smiths... Snarling is to set or punch it [the metal] out as the shape is drawn. Ibid. xxi. (Roxb.) 267/2 He beareth..three snarling Irons Argent... These snarling Irons haue sharp ends. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 412 When the snarling-iron is struck with a hammer..the re-action gives a blow within the vessel. 1877G. E. Gee Silversmith's Handbk. 122, Fig. 32 and 33 represent the snarling-tool.
▪ IV. snarling, ppl. a.|ˈsnɑːlɪŋ|
[f. snarl v.2]
1. That snarls; given to snarling:
a. Of dogs or other animals.
1595Locrine v. iv, The snarling curres of darkened Tartarus. 1612Field Woman is Weathercock i. i, The snarling dogs were mute. 1675Marvel Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 489 Not at all..dejected or much concerned with such snarling currs. 1753J. Collier Art Torment. i. i. (1811) 28 Little snarling lap-dogs. 1828–32Webster, Growler, a snarling cur.
b. transf. Of persons.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 69 b, Nought but sharpe discipline, is a fitte disputant with snarling Scismatiques. 1635W. Barriffe Mil. Discipl. lxx. (1643) 187 Snarling Cynicks, I know, will carpe at my curiositie. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. v. §28 A pack of snarling sour bigots. 1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. v, All admired it hugely, except that snarling Scotchman. 1884Nonconf. & Indep. 19 June 594/2 This perpetual worrying, by snarling busybodies,..of the greatest statesman of the age.
2. Of the nature of, accompanied or characterized by, snarling.
1599(title), Micro-cynicon: Sixe Snarling Satyres. 1633Bp. Hall Occas. Med. (1851) 29, I had justly drawn on..this snarling importunity. 1667Temple Wks. (1720) II. 44 Such a snarling Peace as that at Breda. 1709Steele Tatler No. 2 ⁋9 Long this uncomfortable Life they led, With snarling Meals. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 504 That polite language and supreme urbanity which characterize these snarling productions. 1855J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (1859) 184 It may be supposed that I have made these observations in a snarling temper.
3. Having or producing the sound of a snarl.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. Prol., Snarling gusts nibble the juyceles leaves. 1655Vaughan Silex Scint. i. 81 Each snarling blast shot through me. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes iv, Soon, up aloft, The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. 1860Holland Miss Gilbert's Career iv. 67 The snarling, grinding din of the gearing was hushed. 1900St. Barbe Mod. Spain 59 The rain drove with an angry, snarling hiss.
Hence ˈsnarlingly adv.
1862Sala Acc. Addresses 35 He..denied, snarlingly, that he was worth a penny. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. xv. (1872) VI. 313 Whose reflections on it..are stingy, snarlingly contemptuous. |