Defn: To lie snug or quiet. [Obs.] Herbert.
SNUDGE
Snudge, n.
Defn: A miser; a sneaking fellow. [Obs.]
SNUFF Snuff, n. Etym: [Cf. G. schnuppe candle snuff, schnuppen to snuff a candle (see Snuff, v. t., to snuff a candle), or cf. Snub, v. t.]
Defn: The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning
or not.
If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a
chance that it may fall into a dish of soup. Swift.
SNUFF
Snuff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffing.] Etym:
[OE. snuffen. See Snuff of a candle Snuff to sniff.]
Defn: To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of. To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.
SNUFF Snuff, v. t.Etym: [Akin to D. snuffen, G. schnupfen, schnuppen, to snuff, schnupfen a cold in the head, schnuppen to snuff (air), also, to snuff (a candle). Cf. Sniff, Snout, Snub, v. i.]
1. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff. He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite. Dryden.
2. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.