snuff
- Noun. Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- Noun. Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus.
- Noun. A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
- Noun. The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
- Noun. Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
- Noun. (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
- Noun. (obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.
- Verb. To inhale through the nose.
- Noun. The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which has to be periodically removed).
- Noun. (obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heel-taps.
- Noun. (context, attributive) Pertaining to a form of pornographic film which involves someone's actually being murdered.
- Verb. To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
- Verb. (slang) To kill a person; to snuff out.
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