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To snarl. [Obs.] Spenser.

ed and brought into trouble. If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee. Shak.

One who lays snares, or entraps.

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.

from Snarl, v. Snarling iron, a tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives the requisite blow for producing raised work. See 1st Snarl.…

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

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

To entangle. [Obs.] Spenser.

To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton.

One who insnares.

To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

y surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

n enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

n rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces. Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. Milton.

To entrap; to insnare. [Obs.] Grafton.

ubstance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

To catch in a net; to insnare. Shak.