snift1 (snift)

[ Still snifting and hankering after their old quarters. Landor. ( Imp . Dict.) 2. To pa the breath through the nose in a petulant manner. Cred. Snigs , another! A very perillous head, a dangerous brain. the genus hacerhamphus, of which there are species of M. scolopaceus. See dowitcher. (2) The gra -snipe is the pectoral sandpiper, Actodromas maculata. See cut under sandpiper. Also called jack - snipe. (3) The robin-snipe is fying term. (b) Some other scolopacine or snipe-like bird. There are very many such birds, chiefly distinguished from sandpipers (see sandpiper ) by the length, from tattlers or gambets by the sensitivene , and from curlews, godwits, W. Cartwright, The Ordinary (1651). ( Nares.) etc., by the straightne of the bill. (1) In the United snip (snip), v.; pret. and pp. snipped, ppr. snip- States the gray-backed or red-breasted snipes are birds of sup- 2 or ping. [MD.D. snippen, snip, clip (cf. D. snipperen, cut in pieces), = MHG. snipfen, snippen, G. schnippen, snap (cf. G. schnippeln, schnippern, schnipfeln, cut in pieces); a secondary form of the verb represented by E. dial. ( IMG:content-1407.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1408.png:[blocks in formation]