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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
SNUFF, n. [allied to snub, neb, nib.]
1913 Definition
The part of a candle wick charred by the
flame, whether burning or not.
If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup. Swift. To crop the snuff of, as a candle] to
take off the end of the snuff of.
To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing. To draw
in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite. Dryden. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to
smell.
To
inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs
and horses.
Dryden. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an
expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff? Bp. Hall. The
act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be
taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
Resentment, displeasure, or contempt,
expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
[Obs.]
Snuff dipping. See Dipping,
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Noah Says...
It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language.
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