snuffing

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present participle of snuff
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To inhale through the nose
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Leavings in a glass after drinking; heel-taps
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The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort
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A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco
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The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which has to be periodically removed)

his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out .

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To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated
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To kill a person; to snuff out
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Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling
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Pertaining to a form of pornographic film which involves someone's actually being tortured or murdered
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Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose
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Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus

Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.

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{v} to crop, smell, draw breath, snort, take offense
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The killing of a person that is engaged in sexual intercourse; to snuff out
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Fine-ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose
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Fine-ground or minced tobacco moistened and intended for use by placing a pinch (placing a pinch = dipping) behind the lip or beneath the tongue
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snuff colored; grayish to yellowish brown
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The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not
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{f} inhale, breathe in through the nose; sniff, smell; examine by smelling (as of animals); inhale snuff; destroy; extinguish; cut off the burned end of a candle wick
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Snuff is powdered tobacco which people take by breathing it in quickly through their nose
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Smell, scent, odour
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sniff or smell inquiringly
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To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of
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To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell
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To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of thewick until the flame is suffocated
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The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff
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finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
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sniff or smell inquiringly snuff colored; grayish to yellowish brown
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The burning part of a candle wick, or that which has been charrred by the flame, whether burning or not. (Quote from UED)
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To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff
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powdered tobacco for inhaling through nose
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the charred portion of a candlewick
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Snot, mucus
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inhale audibly through the nose; "snuff coke"
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Pulverized tobacco, etc
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A snort of fine-ground or pulverized tobacco
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a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
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finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time the charred portion of a candlewick inhale audibly through the nose; "snuff coke"
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{i} act of inhaling, breathing in; sound made when breathing in; powdered tobacco that is inhaled through the nose; burnt end of a candle wick
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sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
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To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses
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Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling. Cf huff (quickly puffing air from the nose of mouth)
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Relating to death
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If someone snuffs it, they die. He thought he was about to snuff it
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Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose
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Up to snuff Wide awake, knowing, sharp; not easily taken in or imposed upon; alive to scent (Dutch, snuffen, to scent, snuf; Danish, snöfte) Took it in snuff - in anger, in huff “You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff ” Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v 2 “Who, when it next came there, took it in snuff ”- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV , i 3 Snuff Out He was snuffed out - put down, eclipsed The allusion is to a candle snuffed with snuffers
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Leavings in a glass after drinking; heel-taps. (Quote from UED)
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Up to snuff Wide awake, knowing, sharp; not easily taken in or imposed upon; alive to scent (Dutch, snuffen, to scent, snuf; Danish, snöfte) Took it in snuff - in anger, in huff “You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff ” Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v 2 “Who, when it next came there, took it in snuff ”- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV , i 3 Snuff Out He was snuffed out - put down, eclipsed The allusion is to a candle snuffed with snuffers
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To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense
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prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once
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The act of inhaling by the nose; a sniff
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