[f. as prec.]
1. That snorts; † snoring.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 17. To raise betimes the lubberlie, both snorting Hob and Margerie.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. I. Ark, 553. He wallowes on the ground His shame-lesse snorting trunk, so deeply drown’d In self-oblivion.
1601. Hakluyt, Galvano’s Disc. World, 85, marg. Snorting fishes.
1602. Hering, Anat., 2. A laizie, drowzie, and slothfull-snorting Thersites.
1767. Jago, Edge-hill, III. 110. Oft will his snorting Steed, with Terror struck, His wonted Speed refuse.
1782. Cowper, Gilpin, 83. The snorting beast began to trot.
1848. C. A. Johns, Week at Lizard, 233. Encountering a shoal of snorting porpoises.
1875. in F. T. Buckland, Log-Book, 84, note. A steam-ship is not a huge snorting monster trying to run over sailing ships.
2. Of the nature of, or resembling, a snort; characterized by snorts.
1825. Jamieson, Suppl., s.v. Snirt, A snorting noise from the nostrils.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xvii. One of the three men … sounded a short snorting note on a … horn.
1842. S. Lover, Handy Andy, xxiv. Mrs. Kelly … uttering indignant ejaculations in a sort of snorting manner.
3. Of weather or wind: Severe, rough, violent.
1824. Southey, Lett. (1856), III. 450. When I have told you that it is snorting weather.
1888–9. Osbourne, in G. Balfour, Life Stevenson (1911), xiii. 196. When … we got our wind, it was a snorting Trade, and we ran into the harbour like a steamboat.
Hence Snortingly adv., in a snorting manner; with a snort.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exped., xx. (1856), 160. They invariably rose after plunging, and looked snortingly around.
