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▪ I. † suffle, n. Obs. rare—1. ? Commotion, disturbance. (Perhaps a misprint for ruffle.)
1650A. A[scham] Reply to Sanderson 13 Hee might put all the World into an endlesse suffle, before he should finde such Persons. ▪ II. † suffle, v. Obs. rare. [app. ad. F. souffler:—L. sufflāre (see sufflate).] 1. intr. To blow. (Cf. ruffle v.2 3.)
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 22 The wind began to suffle with fogge and misling rayne. 2. trans. To blow up.
1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 382 Its Kind Is nurs'd by Raine, and suffled vp with wind. |