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• n  freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
• n  edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
• v  gather snails
  We went snailing in the summer

• Snails transport e-mail messages .
• Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail .
• In France, although the snail is an item on all good menus, Jean Cadart, snail lover and onetime snail merchant, discovered a serious lack: there was no up-to-date book on edible .

• escargot

News & Articles

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• ‘Octopus Alone,’ by Divya Srinivasan, and More
  New picture books about a fish and a snail that live in a book, the creator of a submarine, and more.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times
• Facebook Will Introduce 'New Product' on June 20
  Facebook sent out invitations to press Friday for an event at its Menlo Park, Calif., campus on June 20. Sent via traditional snail mail, rather than email, the postcards invite reporters to come see the “big idea” that a “small team” has been working on. There’s also promise of coffee — which explains why there is a coffee stain on the invite — while we learn about whatever the mystery product ...
  June 14, 2013 - Mashable
• E3 Impression - Black Gold
  I got to briefly check out Black Gold , an upcoming MMO from Snail Games, the company behind Age of Wushu . There is a fairly straight-forward set up, with two very different factions fighting over the same resource.
  June 13, 2013 - RPGamer

Quotes

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• John Dingell in Politico (blog)
  That is the slowest moving thing since the snail - and, very frankly, their requirement for 60 votes is perhaps the most singular un-democratic institution that I have ever seen or heard tell of,said. "That has become a device where, very...
• LK Advani in Thaindian.com (blog)
  Advani, also Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said: "The constitutional right to religion of the pilgrims has to be made effective. The myopic attitude of the government and its snail like speed in finding a solution has allowed the situation...
• Francis Bacon in Artvoice
  Employing another animal metaphor, Bacon said that he wanted his paintings to look "as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence:as the snail leaves its slime."