SNAP DRAGON. A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins. TO SNAP THE GLAZE. To break shop windows or show glasses. SNAPPERS. Pistols. SNAPT. Taken, caught. SNATCH CLY. A thief who snatches women's pockets. SNEAK. A pilferer. Morning sneak; one who pilfers early in the morning, before it is light. Evening sneak; an evening pilferer. Upright sneak: one who steals pewter pots from the alehouse boys employed to collect them. To go upon the sneak; to steal into houses whose doors are carelessly left open. CANT. SNEAKER. A small bowl. SNEAKING BUDGE. One that robs alone. SNEAKSBY. A mean-spirited fellow, a sneaking cur. SNEERING. Jeering, flickering, laughing in scorn. SNICKER. A glandered horse. TO SNICKER, or SNIGGER. To laugh privately, or in one's sleeve. TO SNILCH. To eye, or look at any thing attentively: the cull snilches. CANT. SNIP. A taylor. SNITCH. To turn snitch, or snitcher; to turn informer. TO SNITE. To wipe, or slap. Snite his snitch; wipe his nose, i.e. give him a good knock. TO SNIVEL. To cry, to throw the snot or snivel about. Snivelling; crying. A snivelling fellow; one that whines or complains. TO SNOACH. To speak through the nose, to snuffle. SNOB. A nick name for a shoemaker. TO SNOOZE, or SNOODGE. To sleep. To snooze with a mort; to sleep with a wench. CANT. SNOOZING KEN. A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman was robbed of his bank notes in a brothel. SNOW. Linen hung out to dry or bleach. Spice the snow; to steal the linen. SNOUT. A hogshead. CANT. SNOWBALL. A jeering appellation for a negro. TO SNUB. To check, or rebuke. SNUB DEVIL. A parson. SNUB NOSE. A short nose turned up at the end. SNUDGE. A thief who hides himself under a bed, in Order to rob the house. SNUFF. To take snuff; to be offended. TO SNUFFLE. To speak through the nose. SNUFFLES. A cold in the head, attended with a running at the nose. SNUG. All's snug; all's quiet. TO SOAK. To drink. An old soaker; a drunkard, one that moistens his clay to make it stick together. SOCKET MONEY. A whore's fee, or hire: also money paid for a treat, by a married man caught in an intrigue. SOLDIER'S BOTTLE. A large one. SOLDIER'S MAWND. A pretended soldier, begging with a counterfeit wound, which he pretends to have received at some famous siege or battle. SOLDIER'S POMATUM. A piece of tallow candle. SOLDIER. A red herring. SOLFA. A parish clerk. SOLO PLAYER. A miserable performer on any instrument, who always plays alone, because no one will stay in the room to hear him. SOLOMON. The mass. CANT. SON OF PRATTLEMENT. A lawyer. SONG. He changed his song; he altered his account or evidence. It was bought for an old song, i.e. very cheap. His morning and his evening song do not agree; he tells a different story.