Medical Definition of Snifting
1. From Snift. Snifting valve, a small valve opening into the atmosphere from the cylinder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke; so called from the noise made by its action. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snifting
| snifflers sniffles sniffling snifflingly snifflings sniffly sniffs sniffy snift snifted | snifter sniftered snifters sniftier sniftiest snifting (current term) snifting valve snifting valves snifts snifty | snig snigg snigged |
Literary usage of Snifting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water Or Hydraulic Motors by Philip R. Björling (1903)
"snifting-VALVES. If a hydraulic ram of large dimensions is used to raise water
to a great height it will be subject to an inconvenience that will soon ..."
2. Rudimentary Treatise on Marine Engines and Steam Vessels: Together with by Robert Murray (1858)
"This operation is continued until the steam begins to issue, hot and transparent,
from another valve on the condenser, called the " snifting valve," ..."
3. Study of Steam and the Marine Engine for Young Sea Officers in H.M. Navy by S. M. Saxby (1862)
"When, therefore, steam issues from this snifting valve, the condenser contains
steam only, and the engineer may start the engine. ..."
4. Practical Hand Book for Millwrights by Calvin Franklin Swingle (1910)
"taining, or ascension, valve, in the air-vessel; and (3) the snifting valve, in
the neck of the air-vessel, immediately under the ascension valve. ..."
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