Snouted

ppl. a. [f. SNOUT sb.¹]

  1.  Of things: Furnished with a snout or distinct terminal part.

a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc. 9. Anoþer instrument, þat is called ‘Acus rostrata,’ a snowted nedle, for it hath þe tone heued like a snowte. Ibid., 32.

1584.  B. R., trans. Herodotus, I. 53. They had … no beaked or snowted shippes armed with a pyke or stemme of iron.

1605.  Camden, Rem. (1623), 200. Their shooes and patens are snowted and piked more then a finger long crooking vpwards.

1772–84.  Cook’s Voy. (1790), V. 1903. All of them wear a sort of oval snouted cap, made of wood.

1869.  in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v., The neat clogs of the factory girls are snouted with brass.

  2.  Of persons or animals: Provided or furnished with a snout, muzzle or rostrum. In early use predicative with like.

  Also freq. in combs., as long-, sharp-, short-snouted.

a. 1536.  Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.), 113. Sum [people] be snowted like an ape.

1565.  J. Phillip, Patient Grissell, 23 (Malone Soc.). A Horse which to my Judgement … Was snowted like a wodcoke.

1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Chenin, A kind of Badger, that is … snowted like a dog.

1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 503. The Rhinoceros is … snouted like a Hogge.

a. 1700.  Evelyn, Diary, 18 June 1657. A sort of Catt … snouted much like the Egyptian racoon.

1796.  Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 194. [To] feed a couple of snouted and grunting cousins from the refuse.

1802.  Shaw, Gen. Zool., III. II. 587. Snouted Slow-worm. Anguis Nasuta. Ibid. (1804), V. I. 87. Snouted Salmon. Salmo Nasus.

1855.  Whittier, The Barefoot Boy, 53. For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade.

1859.  N. P. Willis, Convalescent, xxxii. 181. I spied the snouted invader rooting busily in the velvet sward.

  3.  Shaped or fashioned like a snout; snout-like.

1866.  J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Met., 89. Lycabas … appeared with gaping jaws and snouted nose.

1872.  Blackie, Lays Highl., 100. By this snouted crag will blow Oft a sudden whiff.

1882.  S. Baxter, in Harper’s Mag., LXV. 89/1. Adorned a smooth head with a snouted countenance.