Agin vs Snare - What's the difference?
agin | snare |
* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), "A Tale of Two Cities", in (All the Year Round) , vol. 1, p.
** At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”
* 1859 , (w, Harper's New Monthly Magazine) , vol. 19, p.
** [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin''' tippin' over a churn full of sap. [...] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law '''agin tippin' over sap."
A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.
(rare) A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion .
* Shakespeare
* 1719 ,
(veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
(music) A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.
(music) A snare drum.
to catch or hold, especially with a loop.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
As an adverb agin
is alternative form of lang=en.As a preposition agin
is alternative form of lang=en.As a noun snare is
a trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.As a verb snare is
to catch or hold, especially with a loop.agin
English
Adverb
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Preposition
(English prepositions)278:
Anagrams
* * * ----snare
English
Noun
(en noun)- If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, / Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
- ...and I had now lived two years under this uneasiness, which, indeed, made my life much less comfortable than it was before, as may be well imagined by any who know what it is to live in the constant snare of the fear of man.
Verb
(snar)- Lest that too heavenly form snare them.
- The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.