Definition of "wood-snail" [wood-snail]

• A common snail of Great Britain, Helix nemoralis. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A very instructive case is the behaviour of the song-thrush when it takes a wood-snail in its beak and hammers it against a stone, its so-called anvil."
• "Thus, a French author has enumerated no less than 198 varieties of the common wood-snail"
• "It was the mummy's coffin I was looking at; it burst open, and out issued from it the monarch of a thousand years ago -- the mummy form, black as pitch, dark and shining as a wood-snail, or as that thick slimy mud."