Snub nose, a short or flat nose.Snub post, or Snubbing post(Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.

(Snub"-nosed`) a. Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.

Snub-nosed cachalot(Zoöl.), the pygmy sperm whale.

(Snudge) v. i. [Cf. Snug.] To lie snug or quiet. [Obs.] Herbert.

(Snudge), n. A miser; a sneaking fellow. [Obs.]

(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.


(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.

To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.

(Snuff) v. t.[Akin to D. snuffen, G. schnupfen, schnuppen, to snuff, schnupfen a cold in the head, schnuppen to snuff also, to snuff Cf. Sniff, Snout, Snub, v. i.]

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. Dryden.


Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?
Bp. Hall.

(Snuff), n.

1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.


3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]

(Snub), n.

1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.]

[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.

2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. J. Foster.

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