Suffio, suffias, sufflâre. Plin. To blow.Sufflare buccas Plaur.To puffe vp the cheekes to blow.Sufflare buccis. Mart. Sufflauit nescio quid vxori.Plaut.He hath whispered somewhat in his wiues eare whatsoeuer it be.Suffiata cutis. Plin.
Suffitus, buius suffítus, m. g. pen. prod. Plin. A perfuming.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
suf-fĭo (subf-), īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4, v. a. [ fio = qu/w], to fumigate, perfume, scent (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; but cf. suffimentum; cf.: vaporo, fumigo): (testam) suffito sertā et schoeno et palmā, Cato, R. R. 113, 1: thymo, Verg. G. 4, 241: bonis odoribus, Col. 12, 18, 3: locum, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 84: suffire et purgare domos, Plin. 25, 5, 21, 49: tecta, id. 12, 17, 40, 81: se taetris odoribus, Lucr. 4, 1175: oculos jocinore decocto, Plin. 28, 11, 47, 171: urnā suffitā haurit aquam, Ov. F. 5, 676: apes, Col. 9, 14, 7: carnem recentem haedorum pilo,
to burn for the purpose of fumigation
, Plin. 28, 10, 42, 154: rutam, id. 20, 13, 51, 139: suffitum anisum, id. 20, 17, 73, 187. —Poet.: ignibus aethereis terras suffire, i. e.