[f. SNORT v.] The action of the vb.
1575. Gascoigne, Glasse Govt., Wks. 1910, II. 61. Assone as ever shee is laid she falleth on snorting.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxx. 51. Her Lubber now was snorting ripe.
1601. Dent, Pl. Man’s Pathw., 164. The properties of drunkards:… their staggering, their reeling, their snorting.
1655. Culpepper, etc. Riverius, VII. i. 147. Asthma is a great and often breathing … joyned with snorting and wheesing.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, II. xiii. (1734), 246. A constant Snorting or Snoring in the Throat and Nostrils.
1849. Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia, III. 15. At each snorting the animal spouted out large streams of blood.
1864. Reader, 16 Jan., 68/2. The snorting of a tiger (for the sound this animal makes singularly resembles that of an enormous and infuriated pig).
1884. Manch. Exam., 7 Oct., 5/7. The snorting of the postal steamer.
b. spec. in Path.
1887. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 2 April, 730/1. Rhinitis with Spasmodic ‘Snorting.’
