ppl. a. Now dial. [f. SNITHE v.] Of wind, etc.: Nipping, cutting; piercing, sharp. (Cf. SNITHE a.)
a. 1350. St. Martin, 24, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 152. It was cald with weders wete, Snythand frost with snaw and slete.
1851. Sternberg, Dial. Northampton, s.v., A snithing wind.
1881. Leicester Gloss., 247. Snithing,… applied to weather. ‘A bloshing and snithing day.’
