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    Snuff \Snuff\, n.
    1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.

    2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the
    nose; also, the amount taken at once.

    3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a
    snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]

    {Snuff dipping}. See {Dipping}, n., 5.

    {Snuff taker}, one who uses snuff by inhaling it through the
    nose.

    {To take it in snuff}, to be angry or offended. --Shak.

    {Up to snuff}, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute.
    [Slang]


    Up \Up\ ([u^]p), adv. [AS. up, upp, [=u]p; akin to OFries. up,
    op, D. op, OS. [=u]p, OHG. [=u]f, G. auf, Icel. & Sw. upp,
    Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See {Over}.]
    1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of
    gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above;
    -- the opposite of {down}.

    But up or down,
    By center or eccentric, hard to tell. --Milton.

    2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically:
    (a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or
    figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting
    position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a
    river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from
    concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or
    the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or
    implied.

    But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop.
    --Num. xiv.
    44.

    I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth
    up. --Ps.
    lxxxviii. 15.

    Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer.

    We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of
    Christian indifference. --Atterbury.
    (b) In a higher place or position, literally or
    figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an
    upright, or nearly upright, position; standing;
    mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation,
    prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement,
    insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest,
    situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a
    hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.

    And when the sun was up, they were scorched.
    --Matt. xiii.
    6.

    Those that were up themselves kept others low.
    --Spenser.

    Helen was up -- was she? --Shak.

    Rebels there are up,
    And put the Englishmen unto the sword. --Shak.

    His name was up through all the adjoining
    provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring
    to see who he was that could withstand so many
    years the Roman puissance. --Milton.

    Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms.
    --Dryden.

    Grief and passion are like floods raised in
    little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly
    up. --Dryden.

    A general whisper ran among the country people,
    that Sir Roger was up. --Addison.

    Let us, then, be up and doing,
    With a heart for any fate. --Longfellow.
    (c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not
    short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or
    the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be
    up to the chin in water; to come up with one's
    companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to
    engagements.

    As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox
    to him. --L'Estrange.
    (d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly;
    quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to
    burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the
    mouth; to sew up a rent.

    Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to
    spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson).
    (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches;
    put up your weapons.

    Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc.,
    expressing a command or exhortation. ``Up, and let us
    be going.'' --Judg. xix. 28.

    Up, up, my friend! and quit your books,
    Or surely you 'll grow double. --Wordsworth.

    {It is all up with him}, it is all over with him; he is lost.


    {The time is up}, the allotted time is past.

    {To be up in}, to be informed about; to be versed in.
    ``Anxious that their sons should be well up in the
    superstitions of two thousand years ago.'' --H. Spencer.

    {To be up to}.
    (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the
    business, or the emergency. [Colloq.]
    (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing
    ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to.
    [Colloq.]

    {To blow up}.
    (a) To inflate; to distend.
    (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath.
    (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up.
    (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang]

    {To bring up}. See under {Bring}, v. t.

    {To come up with}. See under {Come}, v. i.

    {To cut up}. See under {Cut}, v. t. & i.

    {To draw up}. See under {Draw}, v. t.

    {To grow up}, to grow to maturity.

    {Up anchor} (Naut.), the order to man the windlass
    preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

    {Up and down}.
    (a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to
    another. See under {Down}, adv.

    Fortune . . . led him up and down. --Chaucer.
    (b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable
    when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse
    hole, and the cable is taut. --Totten.

    {Up helm} (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward
    the upper, or windward, side of a vessel.

    {Up to snuff}. See under {Snuff}. [Slang]

    {What is up?} What is going on? [Slang]

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