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Like mu/s that do offend, we tread them out, snuffer-tray (smif 'er-tra), n. A tray made to 
Mamivjer, Uuke of Milan, v. i. rece j ve the snuffers when not in use. 
2. A candle almost burnt out, or one having a snuff-headed (snut'hed"ed), a. Having a snuffy 
heavy snuff. [Bare.] 
Lamentable ! What, 
To hide me from the radiant sun, and solace 
rthedungeonbyam " / - 
or reddish-brown head: as, the snuff-headed 
widgeon, the pochard, l''nlii/ulit fcriim. 
Emr 1 
snuliess (snuf'i-nes), . The state or char- 
snuggle 
snog, snytj, snot; neat, tidy, smart, comfortable; 
from the verb seen in Icel. Norw. Sw. dial, miik- 
k/i, cut, > E. snick 1 , sitig 1 , cut, notch : see snick 1 . 
The 'MD.snuggher,SHogglier. slender, sprightly, 
or used to contain snuff. 
It is a matter of politen 
snuffing-pig (snuf'ing-pig), . A porpoise or 
around the snuff-bot- ffl snuffer 
WSSSift snu&int fsnuf'kin), ;. A muff for the hands. 
1. A box for holding 1 ' C t0rare - 
Cold Snuff-box with incrusted enamel and an enamel portrait, 
iSth century. 
present, whether of good will or ceremony. On this ac- 
count, and for personal display, these boxes were often 
made of the most costly materials, highly finished por- 
traits were set in their lids, and settings of diamonds or 
pearls were not unknown. See also cut under niello. 
nose, or through the nose when obstructed; 
draw the breath noisily on account of obstruc- 
tions in the nasal passages; snuff up mucus 
in the nose by short catches of breath ; speak 
through the nose: sometimes used, especially 
in the present participle, of affected, canting 
talk or persons: as, a snuffling fellow. 
Some senseless Phillis, in a broken note, 
Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. 
Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, 1. 75. 
Which . . . they would not stick to call, in their snuffling 
cant, the judgment of Providence. Scott, Abbot, II. Ib'L 
2. To take offense. 
And making a speech on a time to his souldiors all 
armed, when they snuffled and became unruly, he threat- 
ened that he would betake himselfe to a private life 
againe unlesse they left their mutiny. 
Holland, tr. of Ammianns Marcellinus (1609). (Narea.) 
snuffle (snuf'l), n. [< snuffle, .] 1. A sound 
Many a lady has fetched a sigh at the loss of a wig, and ma de by the passage of air through the nostrils ; 
the audible drawing up of air or of mucus by in- 
halation, especially in short catches of breath. 
A snort or snufle. Coleridge. (Imp. Diet.) 
2. pi. Troublesome mucous discharge from the 
nostrils. Also sniffles. 
First the Queen deserts us ; then Princess Royal begins 
coughing : then Princess Augusta gets the snuffles. 
Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, III. 180. (Davies.) 
3. A speaking through the nose, especially with 
short audible breaths ; an affected nasal twang; 
hence, cant. 
The doors and windows were painted some sort of muff- Snuffler (Snuf'ler), . [< snuffle + -erl.] 1. 
One who snuffles. See snuffle, v. 2. One who 
makes a pretentious assumption of religion ; a 
religious canter. 
been ruined by the tapping of a muff-box. 
Steele, Taller, No. 151. 
2. A puffball: same as devil's snuff-box (which 
see, under devil). See also Lt/coperdon Anato- 
mist's snuff-box, the depression "formed on the back of 
the hand at the root of the thumb, when the thumb is 
strongly bent back by the action of the extensor muscles, 
whose tendons then rise in two ridges, the one nearest 
the border of the wrist formed by the extensor metacarpi 
pollicis, and the other formed by the two tendons of the 
extensor primi and secundi internodii pollicis. 
snuff-color (snuf'kul'or), B. A cool or yellow- 
ish brown, generally of a dark shade. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xliv. 
1. With suuf- 
colour. If. W. Sarnie, "Reuben Medlicott, Tviii.l. 
snuff-dipper (snuf'dip*er), n. One who prac- 
tises snuff-dipping. 
snuff-dipping (snuf'dip'ing), n. A mode of 
taking tobacco practised by some women of 
the lower class in the southern United States, 
consisting in wetting a stick or sort of brush, Snuiflingly (snuf ling-h), adv. 
putting it into snuff, and rubbing the teeth and flm S ' m a snuffling manner, 
gums with it. Nor practize snuflingli/ to speake. 
snuff-dish 1 (snuf 'dish), n. A small open dish Babees Book < E - E - T - s ->. P- 293 - 
to hold snuff. 2. Cantingly ; hypocritically. 
snuff-dish 2 (snuf 'dish), n. 1. A dish used to Snuffman (snuf 'man), n.; pi. sniiffmcn (-men), 
hold the snuff of the lamps of the tabernacle. [< snuffi + man'.} A man who sells snuff. 
In the authorized version of the Bible this is the render- M. W. Savage, Reuben Medlicott, viii 1 
irs^r^M s f nuff -^ll (snuf'miD, n 1 A mill or machine 
applied both to a dish for carrying live coals to the altar tor ^rinding tobacco into the powder known as 
l lie ivi-LA siiiiyyitei , o//(/y/'t i , si^Jiuui. O^II^IILIJ, 
[Local, D. snugger, sprightly, can hardly be related.] 
1. . 1. Trim; compact; especially, protected 
from the weather; tight; comfortable. 
Captain Read . . . ordered the Carpenters to cut down 
A pair of our Quarter Deck, to make the ship snuff, and the filter 
for Sailing. Daintier, Voyages, 1. 380. 
They spy'd at last a Country Farm, 
\\ here all was mug and clean and warm. 
Prior, The Ladle. 
O 'tis a snwj little island ! 
A right little, tight little island ! 
T. Dibdin, The Snug Little Island. 
2. Fitting close, but not too close; of just the 
size to accommodate the person or thing con- 
tained: as, a snug coat; a snug fit. 3. Lying 
close ; closely, securely, and comfortably placed 
or circumstanced: as, the baby lay snug in its 
cradle. 
Two briefless barristers and a tithetess parson ; the for- 
mer are now lords, and the latter is a muy prebendary. 
Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 10. 
4. Close-concealed ; not exposed to notice. 
Did I not see you, rascal, did I not, 
When you lay snug to snap young Damon's goats? 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Pastorals, iii. 24. 
Snug 's the Word : I shrug and an) silent 
Comjreve, Way of the World, 1. 9. 
5. Cozy; agreeable owing to exclusion of dis- 
agreeable circumstances and persons; also, 
loosely, agreeable in general. 
There is a very snug little dinner to-day at Brompton. 
Sydney Smith, To Lady Holland. 
Duluth has a cool salubrious summer, and a snug win- 
ter climate. Harper's Mag, LXXVI. 582. 
As snug as a bug In a rug, in a state of comfort due to 
cozy surroundings. (Colloq.) 
I find it in 1769 in the comedy of "The Stratford Jubi- 
lee "(ridiculing liarrick's vagary as it was called), Act II. 
sc. i. p. 32. An Irish captain says of a rich widow, ''If 
she has the mopus's, I'll have her, as snuy as a bug in a 
rug." F. J. Furnivatt, N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 126. 
II. n. 1. In ac/i., a projection or abutment 
which holds firmly or binds by a wedge-like ac- 
tion another piece in contact with it, or which 
limits the motion of a part in any direction. 
2. In a steam-engine, one of the catches on 
the eccentric pulley and intermediate shaft, by 
means of which the motion of the shaft is trans- 
mitted through the eccentric to the slide-valves. 
E. H. Knight. 
You know I never was a enuffter; but this sort of life Snug (snug), nrfr. [< snug, a.] Snugly, 
makes one seriousjf one has any reverence at all in one. For Guinea they may do it Snug, and without Noise. 
of incense and to a dish used for the snuff of the lamps. 
The mm/dishes thereof shall be of pure gold. 
Ex. xxv. 38. 
2. A tray to hold the snuff of candles, or to hold 
snuffers ; a snuffer-tray. 
This night comes home my new silver snuffe-dish, which 
I do give myself for my closet. Pepys, Diary, III. 54. 
snuff. 2. SameassH/-6oj,2". Also snuff-mull. 
snuff-rasp (snuf 'rasp), n, A rasp for snuff. See 
the quotation under rappee. 
A fine snu/rasp of ivory, given me by Mrs. St. John for 
Dingley. and a large roll of tobacco, which she must hide 
or cut shorter out of modesty. 
Swtft, Journal to Stella, Oct. 23, 1711. 
snuffer 1 (snuf'er), . ._ . M . , 
who snuffs. 2. A snuffing-pig or po 
snuff-spoon (snuf'spon), n. A spoon, some- 
L\*MzP + -eri. J i . One times of ivory, used to take snuff out of a snuff- 
box or -dish. Baker, An Act at Oxford, iii. 
snuff-taker (snuf 'ta"ker),. 1. One who takes 
snuff, or inhales it into the nose. 2. The surf- 
scoter or surf-duck. (Edemia (Pelionetta) per- 
spicillata : so called because the variegated col- 
ors of the beak suggest a careless snuff-taker's 
nose. See cut under Pelionetta. G. Trumbittt, snugger (snug'er), . 
1888. [Connecticut.] 
snuff-taking (snuf'ta/king), n. 
taking snuff. 
snuffy (snnf'i), a. [< snuffl + -j/l.] 
Quoted in Ashtnn's Social Life in Reign of Queen 
[Anne, I. 36. 
snug (snug), v.; pret. and pp. snugged, ppr. 
snugging. [<snug, a.] I. intrant. To move so 
as to lie close ; snuggle : often with up and to : 
as, a child snugs (up) to its bedfellow ; also, to 
move so as to be close. 
I will snug close. 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, iv. S. 
The Summer Clouds, snugging in laps of Flowers. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 6. 
II. trans. 1. To make smooth and compact ; 
in rope-manuf., to finish (rope) by rubbing down 
the fuzzy projecting fibers. Also slick and finish. 
E. H. Knight. 2. To put in a snug position; 
place snugly; bring or move close; snuggle: 
often reflexive. 
You must know, sir, every woman carries in her hand 
a stove with coals in it, which, when she sits, she snugs 
under her petticoats. 
Goldsmith, To Eev. T. Contarine (1754). 
To snug UP, to make snug and trim ; put in order. 
She had no sister to nestle with her, and snuy her up. 
S. Judd, Margaret, L 17. 
The tent was shut, and everything mugged up. 
The Century, XXXVI. 617. 
[< snug, v., + -er 1 .] A 
Silver Snuffers, iSth century. 
' 
die, usually fitted with a close box to receive 
the burnt snuff and retain the smoke and smell. 
Also called pair of snuffers. 
You sell mu/ert too, if you be remembered. 
o. a B - Jonxm, Poetaster, ii. 1. 
2t. Same as snuff-dish, 2. 
snuffer-dish, snuffer-pan (snuf'er-dish, -pan) 
n. Same as snuffer-tray. 
bling snuff in color, smell, or other character. 
2. Soiled with snuff, or smelling of it. 
Georgius Secundus was then alive 
Smi/y old drone from the German hive. 
0. W. Holmes, One-Boss Shay. 
3. Offended; displeased, 
snuftkint (snuft'kin), n. Same as snnffkin. 
snug (snug), a. and n. [E. dial, also snog and 
smg; < Icel. sndggr, smooth, short (noting hair, 
device for imparting to twine a uniform thick- 
The habit of nes ? and a smooth and dense surface. E. H. 
Knight. 
1. Resem- snuggery (snug'er-i), .; pi. snuggeries (-iz). 
snug + -ery."} A snug "or warm and com- 
fortable place, as a small room. 
"Vere are they?" said Sam. ... "In the snuggery," 
rejoined Mr. Weller. "Catch the red-nosed man goin' 
any vere but vere the liquors is ; not he, Samivel, not he." 
Dickens, Pickwick, xlv. 
Knowing simply that Mr. Farebrother was a bachelor, 
he had thought of being ushered into a snuggery, where 
the chief furniture would probably be booVs 
George Eliot, Middlemarch, xvii. 
wool, grass, etc.), = OSw. *nyg_g,_ smooth; snuggle (_snul),.; pret. and pp. snuggled, ppr. 
I. intrant. To 
cropped, trim, neat, Sw. snygg, trim, neat, e en- 
teel, = Norw. snogg, short, quick, = ODan. 
snuggling. [Freq. of snug.'] 
move one way and the other to get close to 
