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To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer. 'T was what I said to Craggs and Child, Who praised my modesty, and smiled. Pope.

A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. Prior.

To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.

To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression.

To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.

Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods. [Slang]

udibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt. So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold.

The nose of a man; -- in contempt. Hudibras.

To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. Totten.

To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense. Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff Bp. Hall.

rtainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers. F. Harrison.

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.

A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me! Pope.

r truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt. Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching specia…

A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.]

To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.

The act of speechifying. [Used humorously or in contempt.]

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.

A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.

the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.