(v. t.) The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
(v. t.) To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
(v. i.) To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
(v. i.) To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
(v. i.) To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
(v. i.) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
(n.) The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
(n.) Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
(n.) Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relatively high levels of potentially carcinogenic TSNA in the saliva, together with the current popularity of snuff usage by teenagers, is of particular concern.
(2) Individual effects of tobacco on, a.o., the blood vessel supply of the oral mucosa were, thus, documented photographically every five minutes after cigarette smoking and snuff-dipping respectively in three healthy volunteers, aged 45, 35 and 30 years.
(3) The use of smokeless forms of tobacco, such as snuff and chewing tobacco, is growing at alarming rates.
(4) The dose-response relationship between pancreatic bicarbonate production and varying doses of synthetic secretin administered intravenously and in the form of snuff, was good.
(5) Twenty-nine subjects, 3 showing Degree 2 lesions, 21 Degree 3 lesions and 5 Degree 4 lesions, all of them loose snuff users were identified.
(6) These data confirm that a water-soluble extract of snuff has anti-cytolytic and anti-proliferative effects on peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(7) During the last ten years, over 900 samples of foods, snuff and other products on the Swedish market were analysed for N-nitrosamines.
(8) 184 using exclusively loose and 68 portion-bag snuff.
(9) Most of the snuff brands were rich in nitrate (greater than or equal to 1.5%), total polyphenols (greater than 2%), and in nicotine (greater than or equal to 1.5%), which is the habituating factor in tobacco use.
(10) Based on 133 cases diagnosed between 1976-1982 and 948 controls, there were significant excesses associated with use of the drug chloramphenicol (odds ratio (OR) = 5.4, 95% confidence interval (Cl) 1.2-23.9) and chewing tobacco or snuff (OR = 1.8, 95% Cl 1.1-2.9).
(11) Smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco and snuff) contains known carcinogens shown to increase the risk for oral cancer.
(12) However, the formation of N-nitrosoproline in cigarette smokers and snuff dippers proves that smoke and snuff have a measurable potential for the endogenous formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines.
(13) It was found that 50 (81%) of the 62 questioned patients used snuff in the form of saffa.
(14) Various Indian tobacco products--cigarette, bidi, chutta and their smoke, chewing tobacco and snuff (used for inhalation as well as a dentifrice) were analysed for their content of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (N'-nitrosonornicotine, 4-(N-nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and N'-nitrosoanatabine) by means of a gas chromatograph interfaced with a thermal energy analyser.
(15) After 3000 chewing strokes on each plate, the wear of the plate used while chewing snuff was significantly less compared to the plate used while chewing with nothing in the mouth.
(16) To estimate the risk of myocardial infarction in snuff users, cigarette smokers, and non-tobacco users in northern Sweden, where using snuff is traditional.
(17) Loose snuff users showed predominantly histologic Type 1 changes while portion-bag users showed more histologic Type 2 or only very discrete changes.
(18) The response of the human pancreas to varying doses of pure synthetic secretin administered intravenously and, for comparison, 8 days later in the form of snuff was examined, intraindividually, in 10 healthy test subjects.
(19) The suppression of ulcers was most evident for those groups smoking pipe or cigarettes without filter and only moderate for those using snuff.
(20) Why, it's Sepp Maier demonstrating how to use a snuff feather, of course.
Thief
Definition:
(n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
(n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
(2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
(3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
(4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
(5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
(6) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
(8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
(9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
(10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
(11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
(12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
(13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
(14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
(15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
(16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
(17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
(18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
(19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
(20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.