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SN'ARL, v.i. [This word seems to be allied to gnarl, and to proceed from some root signifyingto twist, bind, or fasten, or to involve, entangle, and thus to be allied to snare.]

1. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds; but it expresses more violence than grumble. That I should snarl and bit and play the dog.

2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude murmuring terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from with Virgil himself stands not exempted.

SN'ARL, v.t.

1. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl the hair; to snarl a skain of thread. [This word is in universal popular use in New England.]

2. To embarrass.

SN'ARL, n. Entanglement; a knot or complication of hair, thread, &c., which it is difficult to disentangle.

1913 Definition
Snarl (snarl)
v. t.(?)
Snarl
[imp. *** p. p. Snarled (?)] p. pr. *** vvb. n. Snarling.] [Etymol. uncertain.]
  1. To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
  2. To entangle] to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
    "Her snarled hair." Spenser.
  3. To embarrass; to insnare.

    [The] question that they would have snarled him with. Latimer.

  4. A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
  5. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
    "An angry cur snarls while he feeds." Dryden *** Lee.
  6. To speak crossly] to talk in rude, surly terms.

    It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. Dryden.

  7. The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.

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