=Smith’s Prizeman=, one who has obtained the prize (£25) founded in the University of Cambridge, by Robert Smith, D.D., once Master of Trinity. Two prizes are awarded annually to two commencing bachelors of arts for proficiency in mathematics and natural philosophy. =Smolkin=, a punic spirit. Peace, Smolkin, peace, thou fiend! Shakespeare, _King Lear_, act iii. sc. 4 (1605). =Smollett of the Stage= (_The_), George Farquhar (1678-1707). =Smotherwell= (_Stephen_), the executioner.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.). =Smyr´nean Poet= (_The_), Mimnermos, born at Smyrna (fl. B.C. 630). =Snacks=, the hard, grinding steward of Lord Lackwit, who, by grasping, got together £26,000. When Lord Lackwit died, and the property came to Robin Roughhead, he toadied him with the greatest servility, but Robin dismissed him, and gave the post to Frank.--Allingham, _Fortune’s Frolic_. =Snaffle= (_Erastus_), a successful speculator in “wild cat” stocks, especially ingenious in “standing from under” when the crash comes.--Arlo Bates, _The Philistines_ (1888). =Snaggs=, a village portrait-taker and tooth-drawer. He says, “I draws off heads, and draws out teeth,” or “I takes off heads, and takes out teeth.” Major Touchwood, having dressed himself up to look like his uncle, the colonel, pretends to have the tooth-ache. Snaggs being sent for, prepares to operate on the colonel, and the colonel, in a towering rage, sends him to the right about.--T. Dibdin, _What Next?_ =Snags´by= (_Mr._), the law-stationer in Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street. A very mild specimen of the “spear half,” in terrible awe of his termagant wife, whom he calls euphemistically “his little woman.” He preceded most of his remarks by the words, “not to put too fine a point upon it.”--C. Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1852). =Snail=, the collector of customs, near Ellangowan House.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Snailsfoot= (_Bryce_), the jagger or pedlar.--Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III.). =Snake= (_Mr._), a traitorous ally of Lady Sneerwell, who has the effrontery to say to her, “you paid me extremely liberally for propagating the lie, but, unfortunately, I have been offered double to speak the truth.” He says: Ah, sir, consider; I live by the baseness of my character; and if it were once known that I have been betrayed into an honest action, I shall lose every friend I have in the world.--Sheridan, _School for Scandal_, v. 3 (1777). =Snaw´ley=, “in the oil and color line.” A “sleek, flat-nosed man, bearing in his countenance an expression of mortification and sanctity.”--C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_, iii. (1838). =Sneak= (_Jerry_), a hen-pecked pinmaker; a paltry, pitiful, prying sneak. If ever he summoned up a little manliness, his wife would begin to cry, and Jerry was instantly softened.