verb. (old cant).—To wipe: TO SNITE A CANDLE = to snuff it; ‘SNITE his Snitch = Wipe his Nose or give him a good Flap on the Face’ (B. E.).
14[?]. Babees Book [E.E.T.S.], 13. Fro spettyng & SNETYNG kepe þe also.
1599. JOSEPH HALL, Satires, VI. i. 104. He … wrings and SNITES, and weeps, and wipes again.
1701. N. GREW, Cosmologia Sacra, I. v. Nor would any one be able to SNITE his Nose, or to Sneeze.
