snapdragon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers.

   “[…]of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees;”

2. isim A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; the substance snatched and eaten during the playing of the game; the vessel used for the game.

   “He bore a ſtrange kind of Appetite to Snap-dragon, and to the livid Snuffs of a burning Candle, which he would catch and ſwallow with an Agility, wonderful to conceive; [...]”