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The shes even of the savage herd are safes m. A kind of play, in which brandy is set All, when they snarl or bite, have no return on fire, and raisins thrown into it, which

But courtship from the male. Dryden,

An angry cur those who are unused to the sport are Snarls while he feeds.

Dryden and Lee. afraid to take out; but which may be

2. To speak roughiy; to talk in rude safely snatched by a quick motion, and

terms. put blazing into the mouth, which being T is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the

closed, the fire is at once extinguished. little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself SNA'PPER. n. s. [from snap.] One who stands not exempted.

Drydess.

The honest farmer and his wife, snaps. My father named me Autolicus, being letter'd

Two years declin'd from prime of life, under Mercury; who, as I am, was likewise a

Had struggled with the marriage noose,

As almost ev'ry couple does : saapper up of unconsider'd trifles. Sbakspeare, SNAPPISH. adj. [from snap.]

Sometimes my plague! sometimes my darling!

Kissing to-day, to-morrow snarling, Prior. 1. Eager to bite.

Where hast thou been snarling odious truths, The snappisb cur, the passenger's annoy, and entertaining company with discourse of their Close at my heel with yelping treble Hies. Swift. diseases ?

Congreve. They lived in the temple; but were such snap To SNARL. v. a. To entangle; to einbar. pish curs, that they frighted away most of the

I know not that this sense is well votaries.

Spectator.

authorized.. 2. Peevish ; sharp in reply. SNAPPISHLY. adv. [from snappish.]

Confused snarled consciences render it difficult

to pull out thread by thread. Deiay of Piety. Peevishly; tartly.

SNA'RLER, N. s. (trom snarl.] One who SNA'PPISHNESS. n. s. [from snappish.] snarls ; a growling, surly, quarrelsome, Peevishness; tartness.

insulting, rellow. SNA'PSACK. 1. so (snappsack, Swedish.] A Should stupid libels grieve your mind,

soldier's bag : more usually knapsack. You soon a remedy may find; SNARE. n. s. (snara, Swedish and Island. Lie down obscure, like other folks, ick; snare, Danish ; snoor, Dutch.]

Below the lash of snarlers jokes. Swift. 1. Any thing set to catch an animal; a Sna'r y. adj. [from snare.] Entangling; gin; a net; a noose.

insidious. O poor hapless nightingale, thought I,

Spiders in the vault their snary webs have How swect thou sing'st, how near the deadly

spread.

Dryder. snare!

Milton. SNAST. n. s. The snuff of a candle. 2. Any thing by which one is entrapped It first burned fair, till some part of the candle or entangled.

was consumed, and the sawdust gathered about This I speak for your own profit, not that I

the snast; but then it made the snast big and may cast a share upon you.

1 Corintbians. long, and burn duskishly, and the candle wasted A tool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips

in half the time of the wax pure.

Bacor., are the share of his soul.

Proverbs. To SNATCH. n. s. (snacken, Dutch.] Propound to thyself a constant rule of living, 1. To seize any thing hastily. which, though it may not be fit to observe scru- A virtuous mind should rather wish to depart pulously, lest it become a snare to thy con- this world with a kind of treatable dissolution, science, or endanger thy health, yet let not thy than to be suddenly cut off in a moment; rather Jule be broken.

Taylor. to be taken than snatched away from the face of For thee ordain'd a help, became thy snare. the earth.

Hooker,
Milten.

Death,
Beauty, wealth, and wit,

So snatch'd, will not exempt us from the pain. And prowess, to the pow'r of love submit;

Milton. The spreading snare for all mankind is laid,

Life's stream hurries all too fast: And lovers als betray, or are betray'd. Dryden. In vain sedate reflections we would make, To SNARE, V. a. (from the noun.] To When half out knowledge we must snatch, not cntrap; to entangle; to catch in a noose.

take. Glo'ster's shew

She snatch'd a sheet of Thule from her bed Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile

Sudden she fies, and whelms it o'er the pyre; With sorrow snares relenting passengers. Shak.

Down sink the flames.

Pope. The wicked is shared in the work of his own

They, sailing down the stream, kands.

Psalms.

Are skateb'd immediate by the quick-eyed Warn all creatures from thee

trout, Henceforth, lest that too heav'nly form, pre

Or darting salmon.

Tbomsetta tended

2. To transport or carry suddenly. To hellish falsehood, snare them. Milton. He had scarce performed any part of the ofTO SNARL. v. n. (snarren, Dutch.] fice of a bishop in the diocese of London when he 1. To growl as an angry animal ; to gnar.

was snatched from thence, and promoted to CanWhat! were you snarling all before I came,

terbury

Clarendon. Ready to catch each other by the throat,

O nature!
And turn you all your hatred now on me?

Inrich me with the knowledge of thy works,
Sbaksprar.
Snatch me to heaven.

Thomson.
He is born with teeth!

To SNATCH. v. n. To bite, or catch eagerAnd so I was; which plainly signified

ly at something. That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. 'Lords will not let me: if I had a monopoly of

Skakspeare. fool, they would have part on 't; nay, the ladies No:v, for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty, too will be snatching.

Shakspeare, Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest,

He shall snatch on the right band, and be huna And sharlatb in the gentle eyes of peace. Sbaks. gry.

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She waits, or to the scaffold, or the cell, Runs, doubles, winds and turns, amidst the war; When the last ling'ring friend has bid farewel. Springs to the walls, and leaves his foes behind,

Popes And snatcbes at the beam he first can find. Dryd. Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave; SNATCH, n. s. (from the verb.]

Will sneaks a scriv'ner, an exceeding knave. Popis

SNEAKER.N. s. a small vessel of drink. I. A hasty catch. 2. A short fit of vigorous action.

I have just left the right worshipful and his

myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons. After a shower to weeding a snatrh ; More easily weed with the root to dispatch.

Spatator: SNE'AKING. participial adj. [from sneak.] Tusser,

1. Servile ; mean ; low. 3. A small part of any thing; a broken

When the smart dialogue grows rich, part. She chaunted snatches of old tunes,

With sucaking dog and ugly bitch. Rowe. As one incapable of her own distress. Shaksp.

-2. Covetous; niggaruly; meanly parsimo. In this work attempts will excred perform

nious. ances, it being composed by sndicbes of inte, as SNE'AKINGLY. adv. [from sneaking:}

medical vacations would permit. Brown. 1. Meanly; servilely. 4. A broken or interrupted action; a short Do all things like a man, not sacadirg!y:

Think the king sees thee still. Herbert The snatebes in his voice,

While you sneakingly submit, And burst of speaking, were as his. Sbakspeare.

And beg our pardon at our feet, They move by fits and snatcbes ; so that it is Discourag'd by your guilty fears not conceivable how they conduce unto a mo

To hope for quarter for your ears.

Hudibras, tion, which, by reason of its perpetuity, must

2. In a covetous manner. be regular and equal.

Wilkins. SNE'AKINGNESS. n. s. [from sneaking.] We have often little snatcbes of sunshine and

1. Niggardliness. fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of

2. Meanness; pitifulness.

Spectator. 3. A quip; a shuffling answer.

SNE'AKUP. n. s. (from sneak.] A cowardCome, leave your snatcbes, yield me a direct

ly, creeping, insidious, scoundrel. Ob

Sbakspeare. solcte. SNA'TCHER. *. s. [from snatch.] One

The prince is a jack, a sneakup; and, if he were

here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he would that snatches, or takes any thing in

Sbakspeare. haste. They of those marches

TO SNEAP. v. a. (This word seems a corShall be a wall sufficient to defend

ruption of snib, or of snap, to repriOur inland from the pilfering borderers.

mand. Perhaps snap is in that sense -We do not mean the coursing snatchers only, from snib, snibbe, Danish. But fear the main intendment of the Scot.

Men shulde him snibbe bitterly.
Sbakspeare.

Chaucar.] SNA'TCHINGLY, adv. [from snatching.]

1. To reprimand; to check. Hastily; with interruption.

2. To nip. TO SNEAK. v. n. (snican, Saxon ; snige, Danish.]

Breed upon our absence, may there blow 1. To creep slily ; to come or go as if No sneaping winds at home. Sbakspeare. afraid to be seen.

SNEAP. n. s. [from the verb.) A repri. Once the eagle, England, being in prey,

mand ; a check. To her unguarded nest the weazel, Scot,

My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs. reply: you call honourable boldness impudent

Sbakspeure. sauciness; if a man will court'sy and say nothing, Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you he is virtuous.

Sbakspeare. Must have a word anon : lay hold on hiin.

Sbakspeare.

To SNEB. v. a. (properly to snib. See Discover'd, and defeated of your prey,

SNEAP.] To check; to chide ; to reYou skulk'd behind the fence, and sneak'd away.

primand. Dryden.

Which made this foolish briar wax so bold, I ought not to turn my back, and to sneak off That on a time he cast him to scold in silence, and leave the truch to lie baffled, And snebbe the good oak, for he was old. Spens, bleeding, and slain.

Watts. To 9NEER. V. n. [This word is apparentiy He sneak'd into the grave,

of the same family with snore and snort.] A monarch's half, and half a harlot's slave.

Dunciad.

1. To show contempt by looks : naso susAre you all ready? Here's your musick here:. pendere adunco. Author, sneak off; we ’ll tickłe you, iny dear. 2. To insinuate contempt by covert ex.

Moore,

pressions. 2. To behave with meanness and servility; The wolf was by, and the fox in a sneering way to crouch ; to truckle.

advised him not to irritate a prince against his I need salute no great man's threshold, sneak subjects.

D'Etrange. to none of his friends to speak a good word for

I could be content to be a little sneered at in a me to my conscience.

Soutb. line, for the sake of the pleasure I should have Nothing can support minds drooping and sneak- in reading the rest.

Pope ing, and inwardly reproaching them, from a sense If there las been any thing expressed with ioo of their own guilt, but to see others as bad. much severity, it will fall upon those sneering or

South. daring writers of the age against religion, wtio When int'rest calls off all her sneaking train,

have left reason and decency.

Watts. Wben all th' oblig'd desert, and all the vain, 3. To utter with grimace.

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Wisemon. 4. To show awkward mirih.

To SNICKER or Snigger. v. n. To laugh I had no power over one muscle in their faces, slily, wantonly, or contemptuously; to though they sneered at every word spoken by laugh in one's sleeve.

Dict. each other.

Tatler. To SNIFP. v. n. (sniffa, Swedish.] To SNEER. n. s. [from the verb.]

draw breath audibly up the nose. 1. A look of contemptuous ridicule.

So then you look'd scornful, and snift at the Did not the sneer of more impartial men

dean, At sense and virtue, balance all agen? Pope. As who should say, Now am I skinny and lean? 2. An expression of ludicrous scorn.

Swift. Socrates or Cæsar might have a fool's coat

TO SNI'GGLE.V.n. clapt upon them, and in this disguise neither the Sniggling is thus performed: in a warm day, wisdom of the one nor the majesty of the other when the water is lowest, take a strong small could secure them from a sneer.

Watts. hook, tied to a string about a yard long; and SNE'ERER. n. s. [from sneer.]

then into one of the holes, where an eеl may He that

hide herself, with the help of a short stick put in sneers or shows contempt.

your bait leisurely, and as far as you may conTo SNEEZE. v.n.[niesan, Saxon; niesen, venienily: if within the sight of it, the eel will Dutch.] To emit wind audibly by the bite instantly, and as certainly gorge it: pull

him out by degrees.

Walton, nose.

If one be about to sneeze, rubbing the eyes till To SNIP. v. a. (snippen, Dutch.) To cut tears ran will prevent it; for that the humour at once with scissors. descending to the nostrils is diverted to the eyes. The sinus should be laid open, which was snipt

Baconr. up about two inches with a pair of probe-scissars, If the pain be more intense and deeper with- and the incised lips dressed.

Wiseman. in, amongst the membranes, there will be an When tradesmen brought extravagant bills, sir itching in the palate and nostrils, with frequent Roger used to bargain to cut off a quarter of a sreezing.

Wiseman. yard: he wore a pair of scissars for this purpose, To thee Cupid sneez'd aloud;

and would snip it off nicely.

Arbutbaot. And every lucky omen sent before,

Putting one blade of the scissars up the gut, To meet thee landing on the Spartan shore. and the other up the wound, ship the whole Dryden. length of the fistula.

Sborp. If any thing oppress the head, it hath a power

SNIP. n. s. (from the verb. ] to free itself by sneezing:

Ray. Violent sneezing produceth convulsions in all

1. A single cut with scissors.

What! this a sleeve? the muscles of respiration : so great an alteration can be produced only by the tickling of a

Here's snip and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash,

Like to a censor in a barber's shop. Sbakspeare. feather; and if the action of sneezing should be

The ulcer would not cure farther than it was continued by some very acrid substance, it will produce headach, universal convulsions, fever, laid open; therefore with one snip more I laid and death. Arbulbot. it open to the very end.

Wiseman An officer put the sharp end of his half-pike a

2. A small shred. good way up into my nostril, which tickled my Those we keep within compass by small snips nose like a straw, and make me sneeze violently. of emplast, hoping to defend the parts about; Swift. but, in spite of all, they will spread farther.

Wiseman, SNEEZE. n. s. [from the verb.) Emission

3. A share ; a snack. A low word. of wind audibly by the nose.

He found his friend upon the mending hand, I heard the rack,

which he was glad to hear, because of the snip As earth and sky would mingle; but

that he himself expected upon the dividend. These flaws, though mortals fear them,

L'Estrange. As dangerous to the pillar'd frame of heav'n,

SNIFE, n. s. (sneppe, German ; snite,
Are to the main as wholesome as a sneeze
To man's less universe, and soon are gone.

Sax. ysnit, Welsh.)
Milton.

1. A small fen fowl with a long bill. We read in Godignus, that upon a sneeze of

The external evident causes of the atra bilis the emperor of Monomotapa, there passed ac

are a high fermenting diet; as old cheese, birds clamations successively through the city. Broen.

feeding in fens, as geese, ducks, woodcocks, snipes, and swans.

Floger. SNE'EZE WORT. ». s. [ptarmica, Latin.] 2. A fool; a blockhead. A plant.

Thus do I ever make my fool my purse; SNET. n. s. [among hunters.] The fat of For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane, a deer.

Dict.

If I should time expend with such a snipe, SNEW. The old preterit of To snow. Dict.

But for my sport and profit. Sbakspeare. TO SNIB. v. a. [snibbe, Danish. See SNIPPER. n. s. [from snip.] One that SNEAP.] To check; to nip; to repri

snips. mand.

SNIPPET. n. s. [from snip.] A small Asked for their pass by every squib,

part ; a share. That list at will them to revile or snib.

Witches simpling, and on gibbets

Hubberd's Tale. Cutting from malefactors snippets; SNICK and snee. 13. s.

A combat with Or from the pill’ry tips of ears. Hudibras. knives.

SNIPSNAP. n. s. [a cant word formed by Among the Dunkirkers, where snick and snee reduplication of snap.] Tart dialogue, was in fashion, a boatswain, with some of our with quick replies. men drinking together, became quarrelsome: Dennis and dissonance, and captious art, one of our men beat him down; then krecling And snipsnap short, and interruption sinart. upon bis breast, he drew out a knife, sucking in

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SUITE. N. S. [rnita, Saxoni.] A snipe: SNO'TTÝ. adj. [from snot.] Full of snct.

This is perhaps the true name; but snipe This squire South my husband took in a dirty prevails.

snotly-nosed boy.

Arbut tet, of tame birds Cornwall hath doves, geese, and SNOUT. n. s. (snuyt, Dutch.] ducks: of wild, quail, rail, snite, and wood-dove. 1. The nose of a beast.

Carew. His nose in the air, his snout in the skies. To SNITE, v. a. [rnytan, Saxon.) To

Tusser, blow the nose.

In shape a beagle's whelp throughout, Nor would any one be able to snite his nose,

With broader forehead, and a sharper snout. or to sneeze; in both which the passage of the

Dryden, treath through the mouth, being intercepted by

2. The nose of a man, in contempt. the tongue, is forced to go through the nose.

Her subtle snout

Grew. Did quickly wind his meaning out. Hudibras, SNI'VEL. n. s. (snavel, snevel, German.]

But when the date of Nock was out, Snot ; the running of the nose.

OM dropt the sympathetick snout.

Hudibras.

What Æthiop lips he has, TO SNI'VEL. v. n. [from the noun.]

How foul a snout, and what a hanging face! 1. To run at the nose,

Dry.lena 2. To cry as children.

Charm'd with his eyes, and chin, and snout, Funeral tears are hired out as motirning cloaks; Her pocket-glass drew slily out;. and whether we go to our graves snivelling or And grew enamour'd with her phiz, singing, 't is all mere form. L'Estrange. As just the counterpart of his. Swift.

Away goes he snivelling and yelping, that he 3. The nosel or end of any hollow pipe. had dropt his axe into the water. L'Estrange. SNO'Uten, adj. [from snout.] Having a , SNI'VELLER. n. so [from snivel.] A snout. weeper ; a weak lamenter.

Their dogs snouted like foxes, but deprived of He'd more lament when I was dead,

that property which the logicians call proprium Than all the snivellers round my bed. Swift. quarto modo, for they could not bark. Heylin. TO SNORE. v. n. (snorcken, Dutch.] To

Snouted and tailed like a boar, and footed like a goat.

Grew. breathe hard through the nose, as men in sleep.

SNOW. n. s. [rnap, Sax. snee, Dutch.] I did unreverently blame the gods,

The small particles of water frozen beWho wake for thee, though thou snore for thy

fore they unite into drops. Locke. self.

Ben Jonson.

Drought and heat consume snow waters. Job. Whose railing heroes, and whose wounded

He gives the wioter's snow her airy birth, gods,

And bids her virgin fleeces clothe the earth. Makes some suspect he snores as well as nods.

Sandys Roscommon,

Soft as the fleeces of descending snows. Pope. He may lie in his shades, and snore on to

To Snow. v. n. [rnapan, Sax. sneeuquen, doomsday for me ; unless I see farther reason of ;

Dutch.] To fall in snow. disturbing his repose.

Stilling fleet. 'The hills being high about them, it snows at Is not yonder Proteus' cave?

the tops of them oftener than it rains. Brown, It is; and in it lies the god asleep;

To Snow. v. a. To scatter like snow.
And snoring by

If thou be'st born to see strange sights,
We may descry

Ride ten thousand days and nights,
The monsters of the deep.

Dryden.
Till age snow white hairs on thee.

Donne. The giant, gorg'd with nesh, and wine, and blood,

SNOWBALL. n. s. [snow and ball.] A Lay stretch'd at length, and snoring in his den, round lump of congelated snow. Belching raw gobbets from his maw, o'ercharg'd They passed to the east-riding of Yorkshire, With purple wine and cruddled gore confus'd. their company daily increasing, like a snoroball

Addison,
in rolling.

Hytard. Sxore, n. s. [rnora, Saxon, from the His bulk y folly gathers as it goes, verb.] Audible respiration of sleepers

And, rolling o'er you, like a snowball grows. through the nose.

Dryien. The surfeited grooms

A srowball having the power to produce in Do mock their charge with shores: I've drugg'd

us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powe Shakspeare.

ers, as they are in the snowball, i call qualities;

and, as they are sensations in our understandSNO'RER. N. s. [from snore.] He thai ings, ideas.

Locke. snores.

SNO'W BROTH. 1. so [snow and broth.] TO SUORT. v. n. [snorcken, Dutch.] To Very cold liquor. blow through the nose as a high-mettled

Angelo, a man whose blood horse.

Is very snowbrotb, one who never feels
The sporting of his horses was heard. Jeremiah.

The wanton stings and motions of the sense.
The fiery wzr-horse paws the ground,

Shakspeare: And snorts and trembles at the trumpet's sound.

SNO'W DEEP. n. s. [viola bulbosa, Latin.]

Addison. An herb.
From their full racks the gen'rous steeds retire, SNO'WDROP.n.s. (narcissoleucoium, Lat.]
Dropping ambrosial foams, and snorting fire.

An early Rower.
Adilisan.

When we tried the experiment with the He with wide nostrils, snorting, skims the

leaves of those purely white Horers that Thomson.

about the end of winter, called snorvdruts, the SNOT. n. s. (roote, Sax. snot, Dutch.) event was not much unlike that newli mene The mucus of the nose.

beyles Thus, hen a greedy loven once has thrown The little shape, by magick pow's, His mot into the muss, 't is all his own. Swifi. Grew less and less, contracted in a florir;

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A flow'r, that first in this sweet garden smiled,

What hath been seen
To virgins sacred, and the snowdrop stylu. Either in snuff's or packings of the duke's,

Tickel. Or the hard rein which both of them have borne
SNOW-WHITE. adj. [snow and white.] Against the old kind king.
White as snow.

Jupiter took snuff at the contempt, and puA snow-wbite bull shall on your shore be slain;

nished him: he sent him home again. L'Estr. His offer'd entrails cast into the main. Dryden. 6. Powdered tobacco taken by the nose. SNO'wy. adj. (from snow.]

Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew, 1. White like snow.

A charge of snuf" the wily virgin threw;
So shews a snowy dove trooping with crows,

The gnomes direct, to ev'ry atom just,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shews. Sbukap. To SNUFF. v. a. (snuffen, Dutch]

The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.
Now I see thy jolly train:
Snoroy headed winter leads,

1. To draw in with the breath.
Spring and summer next succeeds;

A heifer will put up

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nose, and snuf in the Yellow autumn brings the rear;

air, against rain.

Bacon, Thou art father of the year.

Rowe:

With delight he sauf'd the smell
The blushing ruby on her snowy breast

Of mortal change on earth.

Milton. Render'd its panting whiteness more confest.

He snuff's the wind, his heels the sand excite; Prior.

But when he stands collected in his might, 2. Abounding with snow.

He roars, and promises a more successful fight. These first in Crete

Dryden.
And Ida known; thence on the snowy top

The youth,
Of cold Olympus rul’d the middle air. Milton.

Who holds the nearest station to the light,
As when the Tartar from his Russian foe,

Already seems to snuf the vital air,
By Astracan, over the snowy plains,

And leans just forward on a shining spear. Dryd. Retires:

Milton.

My troops are mounted; their Numidian

steeds SNUB. n. s. [from snebbe, Dutch, a nose ;

Snuf up the wind, and long to scour the desert. or knubel, a joint of the finger.] A jag ;

Addison. a snag; a knot in wood.

My nag's greatest fault was snuffing up the air Lifting up his dreadful club on high,

about Brackdenstown, whereby he became suchi All arm'd with ragged snubs and knotty grain, a lover of liberty, that I could scarce hold him Him thought at first encounter to have slain. in.

Swift. Fairy Queen. 2. To scent. TO SNUB. v. a. (rather To snib.

See The cow looks up, and from afar can find SNEAP, SNEB, SNIB.]

The change of heav'n, and snuff's it in the wind. 1. To check; to reprimand.

Dryden.

For thee the bulls rebellow through the groves, 2. To nip. Near the sea-shores, the heads and boughs of

And tempt the stream, and snuff their absent loves.

Dryden. trees run out far to landward; but toward the

O'er all the blood-hound boasts superior skill, sea are so snubbed by the winds, as if their boughs had been pared or shaven off.

Ray.

To scent, to view, to turn, and boldly kill!

His fellows vain alarms rejects with scorn, To SNUB. v. n. (snuffin, Dutch.] To sob True to the master's voice, and learned horn: with convulsion.

His nostrils oft, if ancient fame sing true, To SNUDGE. v. n. [sniger, Danish.} To Trace the sly felon through the tainted dex: lie idle, close, or snug.

Once snufd, he follows with unalter'd aim, Now he will fight it out, and to the wars;

Nor odours lure him from the chosen game; Now eat his bread in peace,

Deep-mouth'd he thunders, and infiam'd he And snudge in quiet; now he scorns increase;

views, Now all day spares. Herbert. Springs on relentless, and to death pursues.

Tickei. SNUFF. n. s. (snuf, Dutch, snot.] 1. Snot. In this sense it is not used.

crop. the candle.

The late queen's gentlewoman! 2. The useless excrescence of a candle :

To be her mistress' mistress! whence moucher la chandelle.

This candle burns not clear: 't is I must snuif it. My snuf'and loathed part of nature should

And out it goes.

Shakspeare. Burn itself out.

Sbakspeare, Against a communion-day our lamps should But dearest heart, and dearer image, stay! be dressed, our lights snuffed, and our religion Alas! true joys at best are drcams enough:

more active.

Taylor Tho' you stay here, you pass too fast away;

You have got For even at first life's taper is a snuff Donne. An office for your calents fit,

If the liquor be of a close and glutinous con- To snuff the lights and stir the fire, sistency, it may burn without any snuff, as we And get a dinner for your hire. Swift. see in camphire, and some other bituminous sub

To SNUFF. v. n. stances; and most of the ancient lamps were of

1. To snort ; to draw breath by the nose. this kind, because none have been found with such wicks.

Willins.

The fury fires the pack; they snuff, they vent,

And feed their hungry nostrils with the scent. 3. A candle almost burnt out.

Drydir. Lamentable !

Says Humpus, sir, my master bad me pray To hide me from the radiant sun, and solace

Your company to dine with him to-day: l'th' dungeon by a snuif.

Sbakspeare. He snuft, then follows, up the stairs he goes; 4. The fired wick of a candle remaining Never pulls off his hat, nor cleans his shoes. after the flame.

King A torch, sauf and all, goes out in a moment, 2. To snift in contempt. when dipped in the vapour.

Addison.

Ye said, what a weariness is it, and ye have s. Resentment expressed by spifting; per.

sriuffed at it.

Mei. verse resentment. Not used unless in SNU'FF BOX: 1. s. (snuff and box.] The low language.

box in which snuff is carried.

3. To

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