Found 2 items, similar to snuff.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: snuff
snuff
adj : snuff colored; grayish to yellowish brown [syn:
snuff-brown,
mummy-brown,
chukker-brown]
snuff
n 1: the charred portion of a candlewick
2: a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
3: finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
4: sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose [syn:
sniff]
snuff
v 1: sniff or smell inquiringly [syn:
snuffle]
2: inhale audibly through the nose;
“snuff coke”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Snuff
Snuff
\Snuff\, n.
1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
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2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the
nose; also, the amount taken at once.
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3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a
snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]
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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. --Shak.
Up to snuff, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute.
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Snuff
\Snuff\, n. [Cf. G. schnuppe candle snuff, schnuppen to
snuff a candle (see
Snuff, v. t., to snuff a candle), or
cf.
Snub, v. t.]
The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether
burning or not.
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If the burning snuff happens to get out of the
snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a
dish of soup. --Swift.
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Snuff
\Snuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Snuffed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Snuffing.] [OE. snuffen. See
Snuff of a candle
Snuff to
sniff.]
To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the
snuff of.
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To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.
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Snuff
\Snuff\, v. t.[Akin to D. snuffen, G. schnupfen,
schnuppen, to snuff, schnupfen a cold in the head, schnuppen
to snuff (air), also, to snuff (a candle). Cf.
Sniff,
Snout,
Snub, v. i.]
1. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to
sniff.
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He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.
--Dryden.
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2. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
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Snuff
\Snuff\, v. i.
1. To inhale air through the nose with violence or with
noise, as do dogs and horses. --Dryden.
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2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of
contempt; hence, to take offense.
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Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff? --Bp.
Hall.
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