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The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.] Nares.

The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.

A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec. [Obs.] Nares.

A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. Nares.

dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. [Eng.] Nares.

A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot. [Obs.] Nares.

An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism] Nares. I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. Massinger. Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.…

t is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).

or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares. -- Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril. -- Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. -- Single-cut file. See the Not…

r of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy. Nares. Instead of a faithful and painful teacher, they hire a Sir John, which hath better skill in playing at tables, or in keeping of a garden, than in God's word. Latimer.

To embarrass; to insnare. [The] question that they would have snarled him with. Latimer.

Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious. Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread. Dryden.

To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare. Beau & Fl.

A tailor. [Slang] Nares. C. Kingsley.

nd drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.

honor. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- On, or Upon, the square with, upon equality with; even with. Nares. -- To be all squares, to be all settled. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- To be at square, to be in a state of quarreling. [Obs.] Nares. -- To break no square, to give no offense; to make no difference. [Obs.] -- To break squares,…

e with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. Nares.

To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] Nares. To strike at, to aim a blow at. -- To strike for, to start suddenly on a course for. -- To strike home, to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect. -- To strike in. (a) To enter suddenly. (b) To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an erup…

culty or distress. 'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden.

A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers. Nares. Drinking super nagulum [supernaculum], a device of drinking, new come out of France, which is, after a man hath turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail and make a pearl with that is left; which if it slide, and…