| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. 2. (v. t.) To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of. 3. (v. i.) To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff. 4. (v. i.) To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell. 5. (v. i.) To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses. 6. (v. i.) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense. 7. (n.) The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff. 8. (n.) Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once. 9. (n.) Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. |  | Multi-Version Concordance Snuff (6 Occurrences) Matthew 12:20 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory. (See NIV) Exodus 25:38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Exodus 37:23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Numbers 4:9 "They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Isaiah 42:3 He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples. (See NIV) Jeremiah 14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. (Root in KJV DBY WBS) |