10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNEESH»
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sneesh in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Concise English-Scots Dictionary
2 (a candle) snite. snuffbox mill, mull, sneeshin-mill, sneeshin-horn, fsneeshin-
box. snuff -spoon sneeshin-pen. pinch of snuff snuff, sneesh. take snuff snuff,
sneesh. snuffle noun sneevil, snifter, snocher, snochle NE. verb snifter, snocher,
snork ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns,
1999
2
The Chambers Dictionary
sneesh Sno-cat sneesh snesh, (Scot) n a pinch of snuff; snuff. — n sneesh in.
sneesh Ing or sneesh an snuff; a pinch of snuff. — snee shin-mull a snuff box. [
Poss sneeze, sneezing; or unit, cf snush] sneeze ••ni:-. vi to make a sudden, ...
3
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Cf. sueeshin(g, sneeze, 3. Se. She did not care one pinch o' snishl HISLOP
Anecdote (1874) 6. Lth. A sneesh frae our Indian mull, Stu-m Many Bridal (1866)
In. Edb. Malcom, honest man, Wha take his snish, Har'st Rig (r794) 10, ed. 180:.
Feb.
4
England in the days of old
more from the sneesh-box [snuff-box] than the pipe. And they made it so
necessary that I have heard some of them say that, should their bread come in
competition with it, they would rather fast than their sneesh should be taken away
.
5
Domestic Annals of Scotland
'They are fond of tobacco, but more from the sneesh-box [snuff-box] than the pipe.
And they have made it so necessary, that I have heard some of them say, that,
should their bread come in competition with it, they would rather fast than their ...
6
The souter's lamp, and other stories
... in tones of dejected conviction, when the Benediction had been given. " I
wadna like t' say," Gavin responded dubiously. " It was a guid sign t' see fames
Main tak' a sneesh when ye were in the middle o' yer discourse." " Tak' a sneesh !
They are fond,' says the English observer, ' of tobacco, but more from the sneesh
box than the pipe, and they have made it so necessary that I have heard some of
them say that should their bread come in competition with it, they would rather ...
8
Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account ...
There'll be plenty of pipe, and a glorious supply Of the good sneesh-te-iacht, and
the fine cut-and-dry ; There we'll drink foggy Care to his gloomy abodes, And we'll
smoke, till we sit in the clouds, like the gods." The Museum of the Society of ...
Frederick William Fairholt,
1859
SONG XXXVIII. THE AULD WIFE AYONT THE FIRE. I There was a wifewonn'din
a glen, And she had doch-ters nine or ten. That sought the house baith but and
ben, To I i find their mam a sneesh-in'. The auld wife a - yont the 5 3= fire, The ...
They are fond,' says the English observer, ' of tobacco, but more from the sneesh
bos than the pipe, and they have made it so necessary that I have heard some of
them say that should their bread come in competition with it, they would rather ...
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman,
1857