snuffs

Noun

snuff (countable and uncountable, plural snuffs)

1. Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
   • The native of some South American tribes use this drug as an aphrodisiac in the form of a snuff called cohoba.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 51
2. Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
   • Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language

   Synonyms:

   chewing tobacco, dip

3. A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
4. The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
5. Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
6. (obsolete) Snot, mucus.

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