The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snite \Snite\ (sn[imac]t), n.
A snipe. [Obs. or Scot.]
--Carew.
Snite \Snite\, v. t. [Icel. sn[=i]fa. See Snout.] To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle. [Obs. or Scot.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to blow or wipe the nose," c.1100, now Scottish and dialectal, from Old English snytan, related to Old Norse snyta, Middle Dutch snuten, Old High German snuzen, German schneuzen "to blow one's nose," and to snot.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete or Scotland English) A snipe. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context obsolete or Scotland transitive English) To blow (one's nose). 2 (context obsolete or Scotland transitive English) To snuff (a candle).
Usage examples of "snite".
Of such therefore as are bred in our land, we have the crane, the bitter,the wild and tame swan, the bustard, the heron, curlew, snite, wildgoose, wind or doterell, brant, lark, plover (of both sorts), lapwing, teal, widgeon, mallard, sheldrake, shoveller, peewitt, seamew, barnacle, quail (who, only with man, are subject to the falling sickness), the knot, the oliet or olive, the dunbird, woodcock, partridge, and pheasant, besides divers others, whose names to me are utterly unknown, and much more the taste of their flesh, wherewith I was never acquainted.