snift

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A moment; a while.

   “An' if thou'll make a shift effort To tak thi time a bit, owd lass, Thou's have him in a snift!”

2. isim A light dusting, as of snow.

   “Good Lorjus, Meary ! theawrt so hasty; so I clum th' steeigh in o snift, shoavt th' awts eawt, an smackt me riddle oth' hoyle.”

3. fiil To sniff; to snort or snuff.

   “[S]he, also, entered, and coming pretty close to my Father, snifted at her Flowers with a sort of extatic eagerness, and then let them fall.”

4. fiil To snivel.
5. fiil To cause a snift; to release pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine or bottling equipment.

   “Hold it for a second or two to test the bottle, then snift, and fill the bottle up to the neck.”

6. isim A deliberate release of pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine, or bottling equipment.

   “The whole of the ‘snift’ (which is the waste in bottling aerated waters) is saved by this machine.”