Word Meanings - SNUFFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Soiled with snuff. 2. Sulky; angry; vexed. Jamieson.

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• VEXILLAR; VEXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation , a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. (more info)
• SOILY
  Dirty; soiled. Fuller.
• SOILURE
  Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.
• VEXINGLY
  In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate. Tatler.
• SOIL PIPE
  A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
• 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.
• VEXILLUM
  The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard. (more info) A flag or standard. A company of troops serving under one standard. A banner. The sign of the cross.
• SOILLESS
  Destitute of soil or mold.
• 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.
• VEXILLATION
  A company of troops under one vexillum.
• VEXED
  1. Annoyed; harassed; troubled. 2. Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.
• SNUFFY
  1. Soiled with snuff. 2. Sulky; angry; vexed. Jamieson.
• SOIL
  To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence , to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
• SULKY
  Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic. Syn. -- See Sullen.
• SNUFFER
  The common porpoise. (more info) 1. One who snuffs.
• VEXILLARY
  A standard bearer. Tennyson.
• VEX
  vexer, L. vexare, vexatum, to vex, originally, to shake, toss, in 1. To to White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars. Pope. 2. To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to
• VEXIL
  A vexillum.
• ANGRY
  1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor. 2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore. 3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• TOPSOIL
  The upper layer of soil; surface soil.
• BESNUFF
  To befoul with snuff. Young.
• ASSOILZIE; ASSOILYIE
  To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.