Snarl

1. n. The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
2. v. t. To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
3. v. t. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
4. v. t. To embarrass; to insnare.
5. n. A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
6. v. i. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
7. v. i. To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.