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Snuff [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The burning part of a candle wick, or that which has been charred by the flame, whether burning or not.

2. A candle almost burnt out.

3. Pulverized tobacco, taken or prepared to be taken into the nose.

4. Resentment; huff, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.

Snuff [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To snort; to inhale air with violence or with noise; as dogs and horses.

2. To turn up the nose and inhale air in contempt. MalachiÃÂ 1:13 .

3. To take offense.

Snuff [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To draw in with the breath; to inhale; as, to snuff the wind.

2. To scent; to smell; to perceive by the nose.

3. To crop the snuff as of a candle; to take off the end of the snuff

Snuff [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.

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

Snuff [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.

2. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.

3. To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.

4. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.

Snuff [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.

2. To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.

Snuff Encyclopedia Britannica

SNUFF. See Tobacco.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 202
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Snuffbox [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A box for carrying snuff about the person.

Snuffbox [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small box for carrying snuff about the person.

Snuffed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Snuffer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that snuffs.

Snuffer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who snuffs.

2. The common porpoise.

Snuffers [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

plural An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle.

Snuffers [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

Snuffing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Snuffingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a snuffing manner.

Snuffle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To speak through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose, or through the nose when obstructed. Some senseless Phillis, in a broken not, SnuffLing at nose.

Snuffle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.

2. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.

3. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.

Snuffle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.

Snuffled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Snuffler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that snuffles or speaks through the nose when obstructed.

Snuffler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who snuffles; one who uses cant.

Snuffles [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Obstruction of the nose by mucus.

Snuffling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A speaking through the nose.

Snuffling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Snufftaking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that takes snuff, or inhales in into the nose.

Snuffy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Soiled with snuff.

Snuffy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Soiled with snuff.

2. Sulky; angry; vexed.

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11 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “Snuff”

Exodus 25:38

And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

The wick trimmers and their trays must be of pure gold.

Exodus 37:23

And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

He also made its seven lamps, its wick trimmers, and trays of pure gold.

Numbers 4:9

And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:

They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand used for light, together with its lamps, wick trimmers, and trays, as well as the jars of oil with which to supply it.

1 Kings 7:50

And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

2 Kings 12:13

Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 25:14

And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

2 Chronicles 4:22

And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.

Isaiah 43:17

Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:

Jeremiah 2:24

A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

Jeremiah 14:6

And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

Jeremiah 52:18

The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

Malachi 1:13

Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.