snuff (n.) Old form(s): Snuffe
smouldering candle-end, burnt-out wick
AW I.ii.59[King to Bertram, reporting Bertram's father] Let me not live ... to be the snuff / Of younger spirits
Cym I.vii.87.1[Iachimo to Innogen] What / To hide me from the radiant sun, and solace / I'th' dungeon by a snuff?
KL IV.vi.39[Gloucester as if to the gods] My snuff and loathed part of nature should / Burn itself out [F; Q snurff]
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