| snuff | 1. To inhale forcibly through the nose. 2. Finely powdered tobacco used by inhalation through the nose or applied to the gums. 3. Any medicated powder applied by insufflation to the nasal mucous membrane. Origin: echoic (05 Mar 2000) |
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| snuff-box | See: anatomical snuffbox. (05 Mar 2000) |
| snuffer | 1. One who snuffs. 2. <zoology> The common porpoise. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| snuffle | To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. "One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat." (Dryden) Origin: Freq. Of snuff, v.i.; akin to LG. Snuffeln, G. Schnuffeln, D. Snuffeln, Dan. Snovle. Cf. Sniffle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| snuffles | Obstructed nasal respiration, especially in the newborn infant, sometimes due to congenital syphilis. Rabbit snuffles, acute inflammation of the upper nasal passages, usually associated with Pasteurella organisms; in outbreaks of snuffles in rabbitries there usually are some deaths from pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |