snub 
Trees . . . whose heads and boughs I have observ'd to 
run out far to landward, but toward the sea to be so 
snubbed by the winds as if their boughs had been pared or 
shaven otf on that side. Ray, Works of Creation, i. 
2. To make snub, as the nose. 
They laughed, and mubbed their noses with their hand- 
kerchiefs. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 14. 
3. To cheek or stop suddenly; check the head- 
way of, as a vessel by means of a rope in order 
to turn her into a narrow berth, or an unbroken 
horse in order to break him to the halter: com- 
monly with up ; also, to fasten, or tie up. as to 
a snub or snubbing-post. 
One of the first lessons the newly caught animal has to 
learn is not to "run on a rope," and he is taught this by 
being violently snubbedup, probably turning a somersault, 
the first two or three times that he feels the noose settle 
round his neck and makes a mad rush for liberty. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 660. 
4. To disconcert; cheek; rebuke with a severe 
or sarcastic reply or remark ; slight designedly ; 
treat with deliberate neglect. 
gif the brother shal synne in thee, go thou, and reproue 
hym, or snybbe. Wyclif, Mat. xviii. IS. 
Would it not vex a Man to the Heart to have an old 
Fool snubbing a Body every Minute afore Company? 
Steele, Tender Husband, 1. 1. 
I did hear him say, a little snubbing before marriage 
would teach you to bear it the better afterwards. 
Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, iv. 
The House of Lords, or a majority of them, about 200 
men, can snub both king and House of Commons. 
W. R. Greg, Misc. Essays, 2d ser., p. 96. 
This youth spoke his mind too openly, and moreover 
would not be snubbed. 
Q. Meredith, Ordeal of Richard Feverel, xii. 
5. To affect or compel in a specific way by 
snubbing: as, to snub one into silence. 
"Deborah, there 's a gentleman sitting in the drawing- 
room with his arm round Miss Jessie's waist!" . . . Miss 
JenkynssnuMierfherdown in an instant: "The most prop- 
er place in the world for his arm to be in. Go away, Ma- 
tilda, and mind your own business." 
Mrs. Gaskell, Cranford, U. 
To snub a cable (naut.), to check it suddenly in running 
out. 
snub 1 (snub), . [See snubi, v. .] 1. A pro- 
tuberance or knot in wood. 
And lifting up his dreadfnll club on hight, 
All armd with ragged snubbes a.nA knottie graine. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 7. 
2. A nose turned up at the tip and somewhat 
flat and broad ; a pug-nose. 
My father's nose was aquiline, and mine is a snub. 
Marryat. 
3. A check; a rebuff; a rebuke; an intentional 
slight. 
They [theporphyrogeniti] seldom forget faces, and never 
miss an opportunity of speaking a word in season, or ad- 
ministering a snub in season, according to circumstances. 
H. A". Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 13. 
4. The sudden checking of a rope or cable run- 
ning out. 5. A stake, set in the bank of a 
river or canal, around which a rope may be 
cast to cheek the motion of a boat or raft. 
[U. S. and Canada.] 
snub 1 (snub), a. [<*&!, .] Somewhat broad 
and flat, with the tip turned up: said of the 
nose. 
Her nose was unformed and snub, and her lips were red 
and dewy. Mrs. Gaskell, Cranford, i. 
snub 2 t, v- and n. See snob%. 
snubber (snub'er), n. Naut., a contrivance for 
snubbing a cable ; a check-stopper. 
snubbing-line (snub'ing-lln), . On a boat or 
raft, a line carried on the bow or forward end, 
and passed around a post or bollard, to check 
the momentum when required. 
snubbing-post (snub'ing-p6st),. A post around 
which a rope can be wound to check the motion 
of a body, as a boat or a horse, controlled by the 
rope ; particularly, a post framed into a dock, 
or set in the bank of a canal, around which a 
line or hawser attached to a vessel can be wound 
to snub or check the vessel. Also snub-post. 
A stout line is carried forward, and the ends are attached 
on starboard and port to snubbing posts that project over 
the water like catheads. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVI. 326. 
Near the middle of the glade stands the high, circular 
horse-corral, with a snubbing-post in the center. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 655. 
snubbish(snub'ish),a. [<)!&!+ -j'sftl.] Tend- 
ing to snub, check, or repress. [Colloq.] 
Spirit of Kant ! have we not had enough 
To make religion sad, and sour, and snubbish .' 
Hood, Open Question. 
snubby (snub'i), . [< snub 1 + -y 1 .] Some- 
what snub ; short or flat. 
Both have mottled legs, 
Both have snubby noses. 
Thackeray, Peg of Limavaddy. 
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snub-cube (snub'kub), . A solid with thirty- 
eight faces, at each nf whose solid angles there 
are four triangles anil a square, having six faces 
belonging to a cube, eight to the coaxial octa- 
hedron, and twenty-four others not belonging 
to any regular bodies. It is one of the thirteen 
Archimedean solids. See cut under unlid. 
snub-dodecahedron (snub'd6"dek-a-lic dron), 
it. A solid with ninety-two faces,"at each of 
whose corners there are four triangles and a 
pentagon, the pentagonal faces belonging to 
the regular dodecahedron, twenty of the trian- 
gular faces to the icosahedrou, and the remain- 
ing sixty triangular faces to no regular body. 
It is one of the thirteen Archimedean solids. 
See cut under solid. 
snub-nose (snub'noz), n. A bivalve mollusk. 
snub-nosed (snub'nozd), a. [< sMufcl + nose 1 
+ -ed?. Cf. Sw. dial, snubba, a cow without 
horns or with cut horns, Icel. snubbottr, snipped, 
clipped, with the end cut off; cf. E. snubbes 
(see snubi, .), knobs on a roughly trimmed 
staff.] Having a short, flat nose with the end 
somewhat turned up; pug-nosed. 
Can you fancy that black-a-top, snub-nosed, sparrow- 
mouthed, paunch-bellied creature? 
Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 44. 
Snub-nosed auk, any auklet of the genus Simorhynchus. 
See cut under auklet. Coues. Snub-nosed cachalot, 
a pygmy sperm-whale, as Kogia breviceps. See Korjia and 
sperm whale. Snub-nosed eel, the pug-nosed eel, Si- 
menchelys parasiticus. See cut under Simenchelys. 
snub-post (snub'post), n. I. Same as snubbing- 
post. 2. A similar post on a raft or canal- 
boat ; a head-fast. 
snudge 1 (snuj), v. i.; pret. and pp. snudged, 
ppr. snudging. [Assibilated form of snug.} 
To move along, being snugly wrapped up. 
Hattiwell. 
Now he will fight It out, and to the wars ; 
Now eat his bread in peace, 
And snudge in quiet. G. Herbert, Giddiness. 
snudge 2 (snuj), v. i.; pret. and pp. snudi/ed, 
ppr. snudging. [Cf. smidgel.'] To save penu- 
riously; be miserly or niggardly. Hnlliwell. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eug.] 
snudge 2 t (snuj), . [See snudge 2 , u.] A miser, 
or a mean sneaking fellow. 
Like the life of a covetous snudge that ofte very evill 
proves. Ascham, Toxophilus, i. 
They may not say, as some snudges in England say, I 
would find the Queene a man to serue in my place. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 240. 
snudging (snuj'ing), n. Penurious practices. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Snudgynge wittely rebuked. . . . Wherupon she beeyng 
greved charged hym with these wordes, that he should 
saie she was such a pinchpeny as would sell her olde 
showes for mony. Sir T. WOson, Rhetorike. 
snudging (snuj'ing), p. a. Miserly; niggardly. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Some of his friends, that were snudging peniefathers, 
would take him vp verie roughlie for his lavishing and his 
outragious expenses. 
Stanihurst, Descrip. of Ireland, iii. (HMnshed.) 
snuff 1 (snuf), v. [< MD. snuffen, < D. snuffen, 
snuff (cf. D. snuf, smelling, scent), = G. sclinauf- 
en, breathe, snuff, wheeze, snort; cf. Sw. snufva, 
Dan. snue, cold, catarrh; Sw. smtfven, a sniff; 
MHG. snupfe, G. schnupfen, a catarrh, schnupfen, 
take snuff; otherwise in freq. form snuffle, and 
var. sniff; cf. also sniffle, snivel.] I. trans. 1. 
To draw in through the nose with the breath ; 
inhale: as, to snuff the wind; to snuff tobacco. 
The youth who first appears in sight, 
And holds the nearest station to the light, 
Already seems to sn/the vital air. 
Dryden, Mneid, vi. 1031. 
He called suddenly for salts, which . . . applying to the 
nostrils of poor Madame Duval, she involuntarily snuffed 
up such a quantity that the pain and surprise made her 
scream aloud. Miss Burney, Evelina, xix. 
2. To scent; smell; take a sniff of; perceive 
by smelling. Dryden. 
Mankind were then familiar with the God, 
He snuff'd their Incense with a gracious Nod. 
Congrece, tr. of Eleventh Satire of Juvenal. 
Those that deal in elections look still higher, and snuff 
a new parliament Walpole, Letters, II. 227. 
3. To examine by smelling; nose: said of an 
animal. 
He [Rab] looked down at his victim appeased, ashamed, 
and amazed ; muffed him all over, stared at him. and . . . 
trotted ofl. Dr. J. Brown, Rab and his Friends. 
II. intrans. 1. To inhale air vigorously or 
audibly, as dogs and horses. 
The fury fires the pack, they snuff, they vent. 
And feed their hungry nostrils with the scent. 
Dryden, Km-id. vii. 667. 
2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as in con- 
tempt or anger; sniff disdainfully or angrily. 
snuff 
Yesaid also, lleh..ld, uhat a wearlne- ra have 
muffed at it, saith the Lord ..f li j. l;j. 
Dothe.-ncinii s ,,f Hie Hnirrh race, and muff, and nreathe 
nothing but threats and death'.' 
lip. Hall, Thanksgiving Sermon, Jan. 29, 1625. 
3. To smell; especially, to Miiell curiously or 
doubtfully. 
Have, any time this three years, muffed about 
With your must groveubic nose. 
ft. .fonxrtn, Volpone, v. 1. 
A sweet. breath .1 . 
Whose manger is stult'd full nf good fresh hay, 
Snuff* at it daintily, and stoops her head 
To chew the straw, her litter, at her feet. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
4. To take snuff into the nose. Compare to 
dip Kimff, under <li]i,v. t. 
Although muffing yet belongs to the polite of the pres- 
ent day, owing perhaps to the high workmanship and tie- 
gance of our modem gold snutt-boxes. 
J. XoU, Note in Dekker's Gull's Hornbook. 
Snuff 1 (snuf), H. [< A-WM.0'1, t'.] 1. Inhalation 
by the nose; a sniff; also, a pinch of snuff. 
I will enrich ... thy nose with a muff from my mull, 
and thy palate with a dram from my bottle of strong wa- 
ters, called, by the learned of Ganderclengh, the Dominie's 
Dribble o' Drink. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Prol. 
2f. Smell; scent; odor. 
The Immortal, the Eternal, wants not the muffot mor- 
tal incense for his, but for our sakes. 
Stulreley, Paheographia Sacra, p. 93. (Latham.) 
5. Offense; resentment; huff, expressed by a 
sniffing. 
Jupiter took muff at the contempt, and punished him 
Sir R. L'Estrange. 
4. A powdered preparation of tobacco taken 
into the nostrils by inhalation. It is made by grind- 
ing, in mortars or mills, the chopped leaves and stalks 
of tobacco in which fermentation has been induced by 
moisture and warmth. The tobacco is well dried pre- 
vious to grinding, and this is carried sometimes so far as 
to give the peculiar flavor of the high-dried snuffs, such 
as the Irish, Welsh, and Scotch. Some varieties, as the 
rappees, are moist. The admixture of different flavoring 
agents and delicate scents has given rise to fanciful names 
for snuffs, which, the flavor excepted, are identical. Dry 
snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and the moist 
kinds with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc. 
Thou art properly my cephaliek muff, and art no bad 
medicine against megrims, vertigoes, and profound think- 
ing. Colman and Gat-rick, Clandestine Marriage, iv. 
Among these [the English gentry', the mode of taking 
the muff was with pipes of the size of quills, out of small 
spring boxes. These pipes let out a very small quantity 
of snuff upon the back of the hand, and this was snuffed 
up the nostrils. 
J. Athlan, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 208. 
5. In therap., any powder with medicinal prop- 
erties to be snuffed up into the nose Cephalic 
snuff, an errhine powder composed of asarabacca (7 parts) 
and dried lavender-flowers (1 part) ; also, a powder of equal 
parts each of dried tobacco-leaves, marjoram-leaves, and 
lavender-leaves. Fenier's snuff, a snuff for nasal ca- 
tarrh, composed of morphine hydrochlotate, powdered 
acacia, and bismuth subnitrate. To dip snuff. See dip. 
To take a thing in snufft, to be offended at it ; take 
offense at it. 
Who therewith angry, when it next came there, 
Took it in muff. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 8. 41. 
For, I tell you true, I take it highly in snuff la learn how 
to entertain gentlefolks of you, at these years. 
B. Jonmn, Poetaster, U. 1. 
Up to snuff, knowing ; sharp ; wide-awake ; not likely to 
be deceived. [Slang.] 
Lady A., who is now what some call up to muff, 
Straight determines to patch 
Up a clandestine match. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, 1. 295. 
snuff 2 (snuf), f. *. [< ME. snuffen, snuff (a can- 
dle) (cf. snoffe, the snuff of a candle) ; perhaps 
a var. of "snuppen, 'snoppen, > E. dial, snap, 
crop, as cattle do young snoots: see snap, and 
cf. snub 1 .'] To crop the snuff of, as a candle; 
take off the end of the snuff from. 
If it be necessarie In one houre three or four times to 
muffe the candel, it shall not be ouermuch that euery 
weeke, at the leaste, once or twice to purge and snuffe the 
soule. Guemra, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 865. 
This candle burns not clear; tis I must n/it; 
Then out it goes. Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 95. 
To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing ; hence, figura- 
tively, to put an end to suddenly and completely : as. 
my hopes were quickly muffed out. 
'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle. 
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. 
Byron, Don Juan, xi. 60. 
To snuff peppert, to take offense. HattiiceU. 
by tne flame, whether burning or not. 
The snoffes ben quenched. 
Wydif, Ex. xxv. 38 (earlier version). 
There lives within the very flame of love 
A kind of wick or mu/that will abate It. 
Skat., Hamlet, iv. 7. 11& 
