[f. as prec.]
1. That snores. Also fig.
1687. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., I. Ronfleur,… a snoring Man.
1714. Gay, Sheph. Week, vi. 36. Cic’ly, brisk maid, steps forth…, And kiss’d with smacking lip the snoring lout.
1809. Pinkney, Trav. France, 131. I was lying at one end of a dirty room, the other being occupied by the snoring landlord.
1868. Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gypsy, I. 118. He is of those Who steal the keys from snoring Destiny.
1894. W. H. Hotchkiss, in Outing, XXIV. 119/2. The snorers…—great rocks which resemble the snouts of snoring humans.
2. Of a breeze: Strong, stiff.
1822. A. Cunningham, Mariner’s Song, ii. But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high.
1885. J. Runciman, Skippers & Shellbacks, 78. A snoring breeze came away from the southward.
3. Having the characteristic sound of a snore; loud and harsh.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. IV. iii. Sleeping Paris is now … silent except for some snoring hum.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 610. On the left side the respiration was loud and ‘snoring.’… Posteriorly the ‘snoring’ breathing was audible everywhere.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 1018. Most frequently it [a presystolic murmur] is snoring or rolling.
Hence Snoringly adv.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XV. 593. A set of prosy lines slumber along snoringly.
