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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.

Well; the fact being as stated; -- used as an expletive; as, so the work is done, is it

nce; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.

or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow. By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length. Cheyne.

hing to wish for, and something to be employed about. Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise. "Sooner said than done." Old Proverb. "As soon as it might be." Chaucer. She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore Soon learned. Milton.

ith inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry. Sorrowing most of all . . . that they should see his face no more. Acts xx. 38. I desire no man to sorrow for me. Sir J. Hayward.

mention; common saying. The duke . . . did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey. Shak.

tning splinters a tree. After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. Prescott.

Injury done to a document.

Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful productions of the soil. Bentley. -- Sport"ful*ly, adv. -- Sport"ful*ness, n.

To assume a spread-eagled position; -- it may be done reclining, for relaxation, or momentarily, as an exhibitionary maneuver in a sport.

(e) To be consistent with; to agree with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so.

Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. [Withered murder] with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.

Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection (Geom.), a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the sphere, and the plane upon which the projection is made is at right a…

hemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little. Boyle.

Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.

Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.

ct of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.