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Bible Dictionaries
Snap
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
(2):
(a.) Done, performed, made, executed, carried through, or the like, quickly and without deliberation; as, a snap judgment or decision; a snap political convention.
(3):
(n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; - usually with up.
(4):
(n.) A snapshot.
(5):
(v. i.) To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; - often with at; as, to snap at a child.
(6):
(v. t.) Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
(7):
(v. i.) Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.
(8):
(n.) To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
(9):
(v. t.) A sudden severe interval or spell; - applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
(10):
(n.) Any task, labor, set of circumstances, or the like, that yields satisfactory results or gives pleasure with little trouble or effort, as an easy course of study, a job where work is light, a bargain, etc.
(11):
(n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
(12):
(v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
(13):
(v. t.) A snap beetle.
(14):
(v. t.) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
(15):
(v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; - used chiefly in the plural.
(16):
(v. t.) A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
(17):
(n.) A snap shot with a firearm.
(18):
(v. t.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
(19):
(n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
(20):
(n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
(21):
(v. t.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
(22):
(v. t.) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
(23):
(v. t.) That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
(24):
(v. t.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
(25):
(v. t.) A greedy fellow.
(26):
(n.) To project with a snap.
(27):
(v. t.) A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
(28):
(v. i.) To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
(29):
(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.
(30):
(n.) Something of no value; as, not worth a snap.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Snap'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/snap.html. 1828.
