snail

1. Snail
   (Mech) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
2. Snail
   A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo. "They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails , that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails ."
3. Snail
   (Zoöl) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
4. Snail
   (Zoöl) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidæ. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.
5. Snail
   Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
6. Snail
   (Bot) The pod of the sanil clover.

1. (n) snail
   One of many small gastropods.
2. (n) snail
   Specifically— A member of the family Helicidæ in a broad sense; a terrestrial air-breathing mollusk with stalks on which the eyes are situated, and with a spiral or helicoid shell which has no lid or operculum, as the common garden-snail, Helix hortensis, or edible snail, H. pomatia. There are many hundred species, of numerous genera and several subfamilies. In the phrases below are noted some of the common British species which have vernacular names. See Helicidæ, and cuts under Gasteropoda and Pulmonata.
3. (n) snail
   A mollusk like the above, but shell-less or nearly so; a slug.
4. (n) snail
   An aquatic pulmonate gastropod with an operculate spiral shell, living in fresh water; a pond-snail or river-snail; a limneid. See Limnæidæ.
5. (n) snail
   A littoral or marine, not pulmonate, gastropod with a spiral shell like a snail's; a sea-snail, as a periwinkle or any member of the Littorinidæ; a salt-water snail.
6. (n) snail
   Hence A slow, lazy, stupid person.
7. (n) snail
   A tortoise.
8. (n) snail
   Milit., a protective shed, usually called tortoise or testudo.
9. (n) snail
   A spiral piece of machinery somewhat resembling a snail; specifically, the piece of metal forming part of the striking work of a clock. See cut under snail-wheel.
10. (n) snail
    In anatomy, the cochlea of the ear.
11. (n) snail
    plural Same as snail-clover.
12. (n) snail
    Helix fusca, a delicate species peculiar to the British Isles, found in bushy places.
13. (n) snail
    A snail-bore; an oystermen's name for various shells injurious to the beds, as the drills or borers, particularly of the geuera Urosalpinx and Natica. See snail-bore.
14. snail
    To move slowly or lazily, like a snail.
15. snail
    To give the form of a snail-shell to; make spirally winding.

1. (n) Snail
   snāl a term for the species of terrestrial Gasteropoda which have well-formed spiral shells—the more typical snails belonging to the genus Helix, of the family Helicidæ, having the shell of many whorls, globose, depressed, or conical

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