Snap | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Snāp, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SNAPPED (snăpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SNAPPING.] [L. Ger. & D. snappen, N. H. Ger. schnappen, Dan. snappe, Sw. snappa, Icel. snapa.]

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle. “Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks.” Prior.
To strike with a sharp sound.
To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.

He, by playing too often at the mouth of death, has been snapped by it at last. South.

To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words. Granville.
To crack; as, to snap a whip.

McMorlan snapped his fingers repeatedly. W. Scott. To snap off. (a.) To break suddenly. (b.) To bite off suddenly.—To snap one up, to snap one up short, to treat with sharp words; to interrupt suddenly or snappishly.

Snāp, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To break short; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast or spar snaps; a needle snaps.

But this weapon will snap short, unfaithful to the hand that employs it. Burke.

Sense 2. To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; as, a dog snaps at a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.

Sense 3. To utter sharp, harsh, angry words.

Snāp, n.

noun

n. 1. A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.

A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, with the teeth.
A crack of a whip, or a similar sound.
A greedy fellow. L’Estrange.
That which is caught by a single quick grasp.

He’s a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every liberal science, As having snaps of all. B. Jonson.

A sudden and severe interval, as of cold weather. [U. S.] Bartlett.
A small catch or fastening, as of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, and the like.
(Entom.) An insect belonging to the family of the elaters, remarkable for leaping to a considerable height with a snapping noise, when placed upon its back; skip-jack;—called also snap-bug.
A crisp kind of gingerbread nut or cake;—used chiefly in the plural.