Also 6 Sc. snor, snoir(e. [f. the vb.]
† 1. A snort; snorting. Obs. rare.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 1821. Þeyr teþ gnaisted wiþ nose snore, Hurtlede hedes set ful sore; Ilk oþer pulled, ilk oþer schok.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, X. x. 72. For feir thai [sc. horses] start abak … And brak away with the cart to the schor, With stendis feyll and mony bray and snor.
2. A disease or affection that causes snuffling; the snivels.
a. 1585. Montgomerie, Flyting w. Polwart, 302 (Tullib.). The snuf, þe snoir, þe scheippisch, the schanker.
1844. W. Jamie, Muse, 157 (E.D.D.). May he ne’er be subject unto snors.
1844. G. Lowson, Mod. Farrier, 209. This affection is termed the snores or snivels.
3. An act of snoring; a harsh or noisy respiration through the mouth, or through the mouth and nose, during sleep.
1605. Shaks., Macb., II. ii. 6. And the surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge with Snores. I haue drugg’d their Possets. Ibid. (1610), Temp., II. i. 218. Thou do’st snore distinctly, There’s meaning in thy snores.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 133. The snores and snorts that came from them [a man and his wife].
1826. F. Reynolds, Life & Times, II. 213. Then with a loud snore, he again sank into sleep.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. ii. 21. The sound rose and fell for several minutes, like a kind of intermittent snore.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 418. One of them has an abominable quavering, hysterical, falsetto snore.
b. All of a snore, filled with the sound of snoring. rare.
1834. Beckford, Italy, II. 244. Dark vestibules and guard-chambers, (all of a snore with jaded equerries).
4. transf. A sound resembling that of a snore; a loud roaring or droning noise.
1709. Brit. Apollo, No. 41. 3/1. She wak’d from Bag-pipe snore.
1832. Denniston, Craiguilder, 60. Now dark December’s wintry snore Rang through the leafless wood.
5. Mining. A snore-piece.
1875. J. H. Collins, Met. Mining, 89. The suction pipe a, now called the ‘wind-bore’ or ‘snore.’
