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snouted, ppl. a.|ˈsnaʊtɪd|
[f. snout n.1]
1. Of things: Furnished with a snout or distinct terminal part.
a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 9 Anoþer instrument, þat is called ‘Acus rostrata’, a snowted nedle, for it hath þe tone heued like a snowte. Ibid. 32. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus i. 53 They had..no beaked or snowted shippes armed with a pyke or stemme of iron. 1605Camden Rem. (1623) 200 Their shooes and patens are snowted and piked more then a finger long crooking vpwards. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) V. 1903 All of them wear a sort of oval snouted cap, made of wood. 1869in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., The neat clogs of the factory girls are snouted with brass.
2. Of persons or animals: Provided or furnished with a snout, muzzle, or rostrum. In early use predicative with like.
Also freq. in combs., as long-, sharp-, short-snouted.
a1536Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 113 Sum [people] be snowted like an ape. 1565J. Phillip Patient Grissell 23 (Malone Soc.), A Horse which to my Judgement..Was snowted like a wodcoke. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Chenin, A kind of Badger, that is..snowted like a dog. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 503 The Rhinoceros is..snouted like a Hogge. a1700Evelyn Diary 18 June 1657, A sort of Catt.. snouted much like the Egyptian racoon. 1796Coleridge Lett. (1895) 194 [To] feed a couple of snouted and grunting cousins from the refuse. 1802Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 587 Snouted Slow-worm. Anguis Nasuta. 1804Ibid. V. i. 87 Snouted Salmon. Salmo Nasus. 1855Whittier The Barefoot Boy 53 For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade. 1859N. P. Willis Convalescent xxxii. 181, I spied the snouted invader rooting busily in the velvet sward.
3. Shaped or fashioned like a snout; snout-like.
1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 89 Lycabas..appeared with gaping jaws and snouted nose. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 100 By this snouted crag will blow Oft a sudden whiff. 1882Harper's Mag. LXV. 89 Adorned a smooth head with a snouted countenance. |