[f. SNORE v.] The action of the vb.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 462/1. Snorynge, stertura.
c. 1532. Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 906. The snowring, le ronfler.
a. 1616. Beaumont, Charme, v. Poems (1640), H iv b. Sable Midnight makes all dumbe, But thy jealous husbands snoring.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 208, ¶ 6. We have a Member of our Club, that when Sir Jeffery falls asleep, wakens him with Snoring.
1781. R. Burke, in Burke’s Corr. (1844), II. 404. The meditations of the judge, the snoring of jurors.
1842. S. Lover, Handy Andy, xxiv. The dormitory, where … a concert of snoring began to be executed.
1897. Watts-Dunton, Aylwin, II. v. It was the snoring of Wynne in a drunken sleep: it filled the entire cottage.
b. spec. in Path. (see quots.).
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 537. Rhonchus Stertor. Snoring.
1834. J. Forbes, Laennec’s Dis. Chest (ed. 4), 49. We can distinguish five principal kinds of rhonchi:… 3. the dry sonorous rhonchus, or snoring.
