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The clear of mucus; to blow. [Obs.] "Snetting his nose." Holland.

To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt. So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold.

A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.

To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle. [Obs. or Scot.]

To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.

Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play. Fairfax.

Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose. [Low]

The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.

Resembling a beast's snout. The nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad and snouty like a pig. Otway.

A check or rebuke; an intended slight. J. Foster. Snub nose, a short or flat nose. -- Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.

To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff. He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite. Dryden.

To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. Dryden.

, native of tropical seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called also snub-nosed cachalot. -- Sperm-whale porpoise (Zoöl.), a toothed cetacean (Hyperoödon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and th…

Spinose; thorny.

[Written also staunch.] Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose. Bacon.

es and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.

pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.

stinging organs. -- Sting ray. (Zoöl.) See under 6th Ray. -- Sting winkle (Zoöl.), a spinose marine univalve shell of the genus Murex, as the European species (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.

ate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. H. Sweet. Stop bead (Arch.),…