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/snʌf/ · noun
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.
Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
[…] most of the women dipped snuff and of course had a spit-cup in the house.
He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.
Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; / To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! / His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, / And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.
January 29, 1625, Joseph Hall, Public thanksgiving for the wonderful mitigation of the late morality Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?
his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out […]
Use snuff when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Snuff means Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose..
Common synonyms include chewing tobacco, dip, chromatic, snuffle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The native of some South American tribes use this drug as an aphrodisiac in the form of a snuff called cohoba.
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