Word Meanings - SNUFFBOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small box for carrying snuff about the person.

Related words: (words related to SNUFFBOX)

• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• SNUFFLER
  One who snuffles; one who uses cant.
• SNUFFLE
  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.
• SNUFF
  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.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SNUFFY
  1. Soiled with snuff. 2. Sulky; angry; vexed. Jamieson.
• PERSONA
  See 8
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• PERSONABLE
  1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• UNIPERSONALIST
  One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
• TRIPERSONALITY
  The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• BESNUFF
  To befoul with snuff. Young.
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• TRIPERSONAL
  Consisting of three persons. Milton.
• MONOPERSONAL
  Having but one person, or form of existence.