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Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.

Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.

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

See Sea snail (a).

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail.

A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

up of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.

Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

sly, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. Shak. Like guilty thing, Icreep. Tennyson.

he dace. See Dace. Dart sac (Zoöl.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Nares.

rhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear sand (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear snail (Zoöl.), any snail of the genus Auricula and allied genera. -- Ear stones (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear trumpet, an instrument to aid in hearing. It consists of a tube broad at the outer end, and narrowing to a sl…

A nursery of snails. [Obs.] Addison.

An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.

an organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.