[f. SNARL v.2] An act of snarling; a display of the teeth accompanied by an angry sound. Freq. fig.
1613. Sir E. Hoby (title), A Counter-snarle for Ishmael Rabshacheh.
1653. W. Ramesey, Astrol. Restored (1654), To Rdr. 4. [I] content my self to incur all the Currish Snarls, Barkings, and Bawlings of the envious and ingratefull.
1832. W. Irving, Alhambra, II. 145. With the wary side glance of a cur passing through hostile grounds, ready for a snap and a snarl.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. III. 393. A sum … which he took with the savage snarl of disappointed greediness.
1885. Ruskin, Pleasures Eng., 147. The mocking snarl and ruthless blow of the Puritan.
transf. 1889. Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, 189. The blare of trumpets and the long deep snarl of the drums.
