SNAIL-PACED

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Slow-moving, like a snail. Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.

2.
a.

God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body). Beau & Fl.


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