King James Bible Dictionary

SNUFF, noun [allied to snub, neb, nib.]

1. The burning part of a candle wick, or that which has been charred by the flame, whether burning or not.

2. A candle almost burnt out.

3. Pulverized tobacco, taken or prepared to be taken into the nose.

4. Resentment; huff, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.

SNUFF, verb transitive

1. To draw in with the breath; to inhale; as, to snuff the wind.

2. To scent; to smell; to perceive by the nose.

3. To crop the snuff as of a candle; to take off the end of the snuff

SNUFF, verb intransitive

1. To snort; to inhale air with violence or with noise; as dogs and horses.

2. To turn up the nose and inhale air in contempt. Malachi 1:13.

3. To take offense.

SNUFF'BOX, noun A box for carrying snuff about the person.

In the tabernacle
Exodus 25:38

SNUFF'ER, noun One that snuffs.

Provided for the lamps in the temple
1 Kings 7:50; 2 Kings 12:13; 2 Kings 25:14; Jeremiah 52:18

SNUFFERS, noun plural An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle.

SNUF'FLE, verb intransitive To speak through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose, or through the nose when obstructed. Some senseless Phillis, in a broken not, SnuffLing at nose.

SNUF'FLER, noun One that snuffles or speaks through the nose when obstructed.

SNUF'FLES, noun Obstruction of the nose by mucus.

SNUF'FLING, noun A speaking through the nose.

SNUFF'TAKING, noun One that takes snuff, or inhales in into the nose.

SNUFF'Y, adjective Soiled with snuff.