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Sniff   /snɪf/   Listen
verb
Sniff  v. t.  
1.
To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
2.
To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.


Sniff  v. i.  (past & past part. sniffed or snift; pres. part. sniffing)  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."


noun
Sniff  n.  The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.





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"Sniff" Quotes from Famous Books



... empty vial was produced he opened it and took a short sniff. Then he drew his breath in sharply. A faint odor was perceptible, the same odor he had detected in the carpet on the upper hallway of ...
— The Mansion of Mystery - Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective • Chester K. Steele
... basis to yourself. Far away he saw a number of men carrying spades and sticks come out of the street of houses and advance in a spreading line along the several paths towards him. They advanced slowly, speaking frequently to one another, and ever and again the whole cordon would halt and sniff the air and listen. ...
— The Door in the Wall And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... in imagination the sniff of the unimaginative reader; I can figure to myself his instant dismissal of all these considerations as "sentiment." Let the word stand, coloured though it is with associations that degrade it. But is "sentiment" to be ignored ...
— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle
... common stinkhorn, which is intensified in the more beautiful and curious Clathrus. It is very probable that, after all, the odour of the Phallus would not be so unpleasant if it were not so strong. It is not difficult to imagine, when one encounters a slight sniff borne on a passing breeze, that there is the element of something not by any means unpleasant about the odour when so diluted; yet it must be confessed that when carried in a vasculum, in a close carriage, or railway car, or exposed in a close room, there is no ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
... with Lamb here. Hissing seems to me to proceed for the most part from ill-temper, or at least from the dissatisfaction of the head. Applause is often the outburst of the heart, the gush of a feeling, an enthusiasm incapable of restraint. No wonder that the retired actor longs for a sniff of the footlights and for the echo of the reverberating plaudits to the accompaniment of which he ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various


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