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with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.

nly form . . . snare them. Milton. The mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers. Shak.

That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial. [Obs.] Ye have enough, parde, of Goddes sond. Chaucer.

ize of an object. -- Stage wagon, a wagon which runs between two places for conveying passengers or goods. -- Stage whisper, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a theater, supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an aside. stage of the game, [Colloq.…

hat runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.

The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.

lly to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.

ween the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers, -- usually furnished with seats for passengers. -- Stern wheel, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels.stern wheeler.

A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).

; anything troublesome; trouble; care. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. 2 Cor. xii. 7. The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, Be only mine. Southern.

To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U.S.]

or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it. -- Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill. -- Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills. -- Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers,…

tomobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more passengers.

he business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line. -- Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line,…

Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.