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Snap"per (?), n. 1. (Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.

2. A string bean. [Colloq., U. S.]

Snap"shot` (?), n. 1. Commonly Snap shot. (a) A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights. (b) (Photog.) Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).

2. An instantaneous photograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.

Sneak current. (Elec.) A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

Sneak"er (?), n. 1. [pl.] Shoes with rubber or other soft soles which give no warning of one's approaching, esp. such shoes as are worn in games, as tennis. [Slang, U. S.]

2. A punch bowl. [Obs.] Spectator.

{ Sni"der ri"fle, or Sni"der }, n. (Mil.) A breech-loading rifle formerly used in the British service; -- so called from the inventor.

Snipe (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sniping (?).] 1. To shoot or hunt snipe.

2. To shoot at detached men of an enemy's forces at long range, esp. when not in action; -- often with at.

Snipe (?), v. t. 1. To shoot at (detached men of an enemy's force) at long range, esp. when not in action.

2. To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.

Snow banner. A bannerlike stream of snow blown into the air from a mountain peak, often having a pinkish color and extending horizontally for several miles across the sky.

Soar, v. i. (Aëronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely without loss of altitude.

||So*bran"je (?), n. [Bulgarian, lit., assembly.] The unicameral national assembly of Bulgaria, elected for a term of five years by universal suffrage of adult males.

Socialism, n. -- Socialism of the chair [G. katheder socialismus], a term applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of German political economists who advocated state aid for the betterment of the working classes.

Sock (?), v. t. [Perh. shortened fr. sockdolager.] To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. [Prov. or Vulgar] Kipling.

Sock*dol"a*ger (?), n. Something unusually large. [Slang, U. S.]

So"dger (?), n. & v. i. Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang]

So"di*um sul"phate. A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O.

Soft steel. Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.

So"ger (?), n. & v. i. Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang] R. H. Dana, Jr.

||Soi`-di*sant" (?), a. [F.; soi one's self + disant, p. pr. of dire to say.] Self- named; self-styled.

Soil pipe. A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

So"jer (?), n. & v. i. Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang]

{ Sol Sole } (?), n. [From hydrosol an aqueous colloidal solution, confused with G. sole, soole, salt water from which salt is obtained.] (Chem.) A fluid mixture of a colloid and a liquid; a liquid colloidal solution or suspension.

So"lar myth. A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

Solar parallax. The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the earth. It is 8."80, and is the fundamental datum.