To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds; but it expresses more violence than grumble. That I should snarl and bit and play the dog.

To speak roughly; to talk in rude murmuring terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from with Virgil himself stands not exempted.

To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl the hair; to snarl a skain of thread.

To embarrass.

Entanglement; a knot or complication of hair, thread, which it is difficult to disentangle.