Snuff /(?)/

1. 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.

imp. & p. p. Snuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffing

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

1. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.

   He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.

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

1. To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.

   Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?

1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]