[f. SNARL v.2] The action of the vb., in various senses; the sound produced by this.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Gañido, the snarling of a dogge.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., V. iv. We three vnto the snarling Iland hast, And there our vexed breath in snarling wast.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IX. 401. The bussing of Bees, or snarling of Wolues.
1672. Sir T. Browne, Lett. to Friend (1690), 8. His sober contempt of the World wrought … no laughing or snarling at it.
1806. Sir C. Bell, Anat. Expression, 90. This action of snarling is quite peculiar to the ferocious and carnivorous animals.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, xxii. There was no care that certain snarlings … should be strictly inaudible.
attrib. 1806. Sir C. Bell, Anat. Expression, 90. In the carnivorous animal the muscles of the lips are so directed as to raise the lip from the canine teeth…. The former I would take the liberty of distinguishing by the name of Ringentes, snarling muscles.
