snifting

Verb

snift (third-person singular simple present snifts, present participle snifting, simple past and past participle snifted)

1. (dialectal) To sniff; to snort or snuff.
   • [S]he, also, entered, and coming pretty close to my Father, snifted at her Flowers with a sort of extatic eagerness, and then let them fall.1792, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 349
2. To snivel.
3. To cause a snift; to release pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine or bottling equipment.
   • A cap and pipe should be put over the snifting clack, with an inch and a half cock upon it, by the partial opening of which the snifting can be regulated; but which will not be wanted , unless the valve should snift more than enough when it is left quite open , as it will be apt to do when all the...1827, John Farey, A Treatise on the Steam Engine, page 253

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