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Snuff   /snəf/   Listen
noun
Snuff  n.  The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. "If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup."


Snuff  n.  
1.
The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
2.
Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
3.
Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. (Obs.)
Snuff dipping. See Dipping, n., 5.
Snuff taker, one who uses snuff by inhaling it through the nose.
To take it in snuff, to be angry or offended.
Up to snuff, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute. (Slang)


verb
Snuff  v. t.  (past & past part. snuffed; pres. part. snuffing)  To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.


Snuff  v. t.  
1.
To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff. "He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite."
2.
To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.


Snuff  v. i.  
1.
To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
2.
To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense. "Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?"





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"Snuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... young man did but smile at Oover and make a vague deprecatory gesture, he again, in his wrath, forgot his disabilities. Drawing himself to his full height, he took with great deliberation a pinch of snuff, and, bowing low to the Duke, said "I am vastly obleeged to your Grace for the fine high Courage you have exhibited in the behalf of your most Admiring, most Humble Servant." Then, having brushed away a speck of snuff from his jabot, he turned on his heel; and only in the doorway, ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... whom the wood belonged was hunting in it, his dogs came to the tree, and began to snuff about, and run round and round, and bark. 'Look sharp!' said the king to the huntsmen, 'and see what sort of game lies there.' And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back again said, 'In the hollow ...
— Grimms' Fairy Tales • The Brothers Grimm
... am going to snuff out each of the four candles in the center of this table by shooting the wick away. You follow me, gentlemen? Locke? ...
— The Eyes Have It • James McKimmey
... Boy, did we let out the Secrets of the Blue Bag, the contents of Old Nick's Sack, which that 'stupid old snuff-colour'd son of a gun,' Saint Medard 'cut into slits on the Red Sea shore' would be ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, September 5, 1891 • Various
... you," joined in the wiry old lady, bobbing up and down like a miniature figure moved by the unseen hand of the showman. "Allow me, sir!" And she gravely tendered him a huge snuff-box of tortoise shell, which he declined; ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham


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