snub

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
2. v. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
3. v. Nautical To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.
4. v. Nautical To secure (a vessel, for example) in this manner.
5. v. To stub out (a cigarette, for example).
6. n. A deliberate slight or affront.
7. n. Nautical A sudden checking, as of a rope or cable running out.
8. adj. Unusually short: a snub nose.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cut off short; nip; check in growth; stunt.
2. To make snub, as the nose.
3. To check or stop suddenly; check the headway of, as a vessel by means of a rope in order to turn her into a narrow berth, or an unbroken horse in order to break him to the halter: commonly with up; also, to fasten, or tie up, as to a snub or snubbing-post.
4. To disconcert; check; rebuke with a severe or sarcastic reply or remark; slight designedly; treat with deliberate neglect.
5. To affect or compel in a specific way by snubbing: as, to snub one into silence.
6. n. A protuberance or knot in wood.
7. n. A nose turned up at the tip and somewhat flat and broad; a pug-nose.
8. n. A check; a rebuff; a rebuke; an intentional slight.
9. n. The sudden checking of a rope or cable running out.
10. n. A stake, set in the bank of a river or canal, around which a rope may be cast to check the motion of a boat or raft.
11. Somewhat broad and flat, with the tip turned up: said of the nose.
12. n. See snob.

Wiktionary

1. adj. conspicuously short
2. adj. mathematics, of a polyhedron Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces
3. n. A deliberate affront or slight.
4. n. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
5. n. obsolete A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
6. v. transitive To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
7. v. transitive To turn down; to dismiss.
8. v. transitive To stub out (a cigarette etc).
9. v. transitive To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To sob with convulsions.
2. v. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
3. v. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
4. v. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
5. n. obsolete A knot; a protuberance; a song.
6. n. A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an instance of driving away or warding off
2. adj. unusually short
3. v. refuse to acknowledge
4. v. reject outright and bluntly
5. n. a refusal to recognize someone you know