An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 787 : _To_ ~Sneck~ _the door_, to fix it by a latch, S. _Ross._ ~Sneck-drawer~, ~Snick-drawe

_To_ ~Sneck~ _the door_, to fix it by a latch, S.

_Ross._

~Sneck-drawer~, ~Snick-drawer~, _s._ _Auld sneck-drawer_, one who, from long experience, has acquired great facility in doing any thing; generally used in a bad sense, S.

_Pop. Ball._

~Sneck-drawin~, _adj._ Crafty, S.

_Burns._

_To_ SNED, _v. a._

1. To prune; S., _snath_, S. Bor.

_Ruddiman._

2. To lop off, S.

_Burns._

3. To remove excrescences.

_Z. Boyd._

4. To emasculate, S.

Teut. _snijd-en_, secare; castrare.

~Sneddins~, _s. pl._ Prunings, or twigs lopped off, S.

Teut. _snede_, a slice.

SNEER, _s._

1. The act of inhalation by the nostrils, Fife.

2. A snort, S.

_Minstr. Bord._

SNEEs.h.i.+N, SNEEZING, _s._

1. Snuff, S.

_Ritson._

2. A pinch of snuff, S.

_Meston._

~Snees.h.i.+n-mill~, ~Snis.h.i.+n-box~, _s._ A snuff-box, S.

_Colvil._

_To_ SNEG, _v. a._ To cut.

V. ~Sneck~.

_To_ SNEIR, _v. n._ Perh. move swiftly.

_Bannatyne P._

Isl. _snar-a_, celeriter auferre.

SNEIRLY, _adv._ In derision.

_Burel._

SNEIST, _s._ A taunt, Loth.

V. ~Snisty~.

SNEITH, _adj._ Uncertain.

_Douglas._

SNELL, _adj._

1. Keen, severe, S.

_Wallace._

2. Sharp, piercing; applied to the temperature of the air, S.

_Douglas._

3. Sarcastic; transferred to language.

_Ross._