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Snuff   /snəf/   Listen
Snuff

noun
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.  Synonym: sniff.
verb
(past & past part. snuffed; pres. part. snuffing)
1.
Sniff or smell inquiringly.  Synonym: snuffle.
2.
Inhale audibly through the nose.
adjective
1.
Snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown.  Synonyms: chukker-brown, mummy-brown, snuff-brown.



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"Snuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... best in these days. His complexion was a bright blonde, and he dressed with the taste of Disraeli. Henry B. Stanton describes him as he appeared at church in Rochester on a Sunday during the campaign. "He wore an elegant snuff-colored broadcloth coat with velvet collar; his cravat was orange with modest lace tips; his vest was of a pearl hue; his trousers were white duck; his silk hose corresponded to the vest; his shoes were morocco; ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... have writ to you three or four times, to desire you would take notice of an impertinent Custom the Women, the fine Women, have lately fallen into, of taking Snuff. [1] This silly Trick is attended with such a Coquet Air in some Ladies, and such a sedate masculine one in others, that I cannot tell which most to complain of; but they are to me equally disagreeable. Mrs. Saunter is so impatient of ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... mine. I created you for myself ten years ago. Not being able to live without you, I am not made of the stuff to leave you behind me. I shall take you and if there's another life on the other side, live it with you. If not, then we'll snuff out together. Like all great lovers, I'm selfish, you see. That's what I meant when I ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... anything of the sort," exclaimed Tom. "I never heard you utter her name till now, and I don't believe she cares the snuff of a ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston
... had gone to bed and they were sewing by the fire. "Oh, ma! she told me more to-day about me insides than I would care to remember. Mind ye, ma, there's a sthring down yer back no bigger'n a knittin' needle, and if ye ever broke it ye'd snuff out before ye knowed what ye was doin', and there's a tin pan in yer ear that if ye got a dinge in it, it wouldn't be worth a dhirty postage stamp for hearin' wid, and ye mustn't skip ma, for it will disturb yer Latin parts, and ye mustn't ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung


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