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To crop the candle. 
The late queen’s gentlewoman! 
To be her mistress’ mistress! 
This candle burns not clear: ’tis I must snuff it, 
And out it goes. ShaJcspeare. 
To SNUFF, v. n. To snort; to draw breath by the nose. 
The fury fires the pack, they snuff, they vent. 
And feed their hungry nostrils with the scent. Dryden. 
To snift in contempt.—Do the enemies of the church rage 
and snuff, and breathe nothing but threats and death? 
Bp. Hall. 
SNU'FFBOX, s. The box in which snuff is carried. 
Sir Plume, of amber snuffbox justly vain. 
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope. 
SNU'FFER, s. One that snuffs. 
SNU'FFERS, s. The instrument with which the candle 
is clipped.—When you have snuffed the candle, leave the 
snuffers open. Swift. 
To SNU'FFLE, v. n. [snuffelen , Teut.] To speak 
through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose. 
Bagpipes of the loudest drones. 
With snuffling broken-winded tones. 
Whose blasts of air in pockets shut, 
Sound filthier than from the gut. Hudibras. 
SNU'FFLER, s. One that speaks through the nose. 
SNU'FFTAKER, s. One who takes snuff.—The whetter 
is obliged to refresh himself every moment with a liquor, as 
the snuf-taker with a powder. Tatter. 
SNU'FFY, adj. Grimed with snuff. 
To SNUG, v. a. [sniger, Dan. See To Snudge.] To 
lie close; to snudge.—As the loving couple lav snugging 
together, Venus, to try if the cat had changed her manners 
with her shape, turned a mouse loose into the chamber. 
L' Estrange. 
SNUG, adj. Close; free from any inconvenience, yet 
not splendid. 
They spy’d a country farm, 
Where all was snug, and clean, and warm; 
For woods before, and hills behind. 
Secur’d it both from rain and wind. 
Prior . 
Close; out of notice. 
At Will’s 
* ie snug, and hear what criticks say. 
Swift. 
Slyly or insidiously close. 
Did I not see you, rascal, did I not! 
When you lay snug to snap young Damon’s goat ? Dry den. 
SNUG BAY, a bay in the straits of Magellan, north-north¬ 
west of Cape Froward. 
SNUG BAY POINT, a cape in the straits of Magellan; 8 
miles north-north-west of Cape Froward. 
SNUG GOVE, a harbour on the east coast of New 
Holland, in Two-fold bay. Lat. 37. 4. S. long. 150. 
3. W. 
SNUG CORNER COVE, a bay on the west coast of 
North America, in Prince William Sound, which takes first a 
direction south-by-east four miles, and then east about four 
miles further. Its west point is situated in Lat. 60. 45. N. 
long. 213. 48. E. 
To SNU'GGLE, v.n. To lie close; to lie warm. 
SNU'GLY, adv. Safely; closely. Bullokar. 
SNU'GNESS, g. Retiredness. 
O’er me soft snugness spreads her wings; 
And innocence reflects her ray 
To gild my calm sequester’d way. Wart on. 
SNYDALL, or Snidale, a hamlet of England, West 
Riding of Yorkshire; 4 miles west-by-south of Pontefract. 
SNYING, in Ship-Building, a term applied to those 
planks, whose edges curve or round upwards. The great 
sny occasioned in full bows or buttocks is only to be pre¬ 
vented by introducing steelers. 
SNYTE, a small river of England, which rises in Leices¬ 
tershire, and passing through Nottinghamshire, runs into th e 
Dean at Shilton. 
SO, adv. [ppa, Sax.; soo, Dutch; so. Germ.] In like 
manner. It answers to as either preceding or following. 
Noting comparison. 
As whom the fables feign of monstrous size, 
Titanian or earthbom that warr’d on Jove, 
So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay. Milton 
Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks. 
In Valombrosa, where the Etrurian shades 
High over-arch’d embower, so thick bestrewn 
Abject and lost lay these. Milton . 
To such a degree.—Why is his chariot so long in coming? 
Judg. 
Can nothing great, and at the height, 
Remain so long, but its own weight 
Will ruin it? Or is’t blind chance 
That still desires new states t’ advance ? B. Jonson. 
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In such a manner. 
There’s no such thing, as that we beauty call, 
It is meer cosenage all; 
For though some long ago 
Lik’d certain colours mingled so and so. 
That doth not tie me now from chusing new. Suckling. 
I shall minutely tell him the steps by which I was brought 
into this way, that he may judge whether I proceeded 
rationally, if so be any thing in my example is worth his 
notice. Locke. —It is regularly answered by as or that, but 
they are sometimes omitted. 
So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell 
Grew darker at their frown. Milton. 
In the same manner. 
Of such examples add me to the roll; 
Me easily indeed mine may neglect. 
But God’s propos’d deliverance not so. Milton. 
Thus; in this manner. 
Not far from thence the mournful fields appear. 
So call’d from lovers that inhabit there. Dryden. 
Does this deserve to be rewarded so ? 
Did you come here a stranger or a foe ? Dryden. 
Therefore; for this reason; in consequence of this. 
The god, though loth, yet was constrain’d t’ obey; 
For longer time than that, no living wight, 
Below the earth, might suffer’d be to stay: 
So back again him brought to living light. Spenser. 
On these terms; noting a conditional petition: answered 
by as. 
O goddess! tell what I would say. 
Thou know’st it, and I feel too much to pray, 
So grant my suit, as I enforce my might. 
In love to be thy champion. Dryden. 
Provided that; on condition that; modo. 
Be not sad: 
Even into the mind of God or man 
May come and go so unapprov’d, and leave 
No spot or blame behind. Milton. 
In like manner; noting concession of one proposition and 
assumption of another, answering to as. As a war should 
be undertaken upon a just motive, so a prince ought to con¬ 
sider the condition he is in when he enters on it. Swift .— 
So sometimes returns the sense of a word or sentence going 
before, and is used to avoid repetition ; as, the two brothers 
were valiant, but the eldest was more so; that is, more 
valiant. The French article le is often used in the same 
manner. This mode of expression is not to be used but in 
familiar language, nor even in that to be commended. 
However soft within themselves they are, 
To you they will be valiant by despair; 
For having once been guilty, well they know 
To a revengeful prince they still are so. Dryden. 
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