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r scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.…

A tart dialogue with quick replies. [R.] Pope.

A fool; a blockhead. [R.] Shak. Half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe. -- Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe. -- Quail snipe. See under Quail. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer…

A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.

The bellows fish.

The common snipe. [Prov. Eng.]

One who snips.

A small, insignificant fellow. [Colloq.]

A small part or piece. To be cut into snippets and shreds. F. Harrison.

Ridiculously small; petty. "Snippety facts." London Spectator.

Like a snipe.

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

A small poster, suitable for a curbstone.

A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.

lliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself. Cow parsnip. See Cow parsnip. -- Meadow parsnip, the European cow parsnip. -- Poison parsnip, the wild stock of the parsnip. -- Water parsnip, any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are poisonous.…

A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.

Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.

The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) Dr. Prior.

hed by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.