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Destitute of a nose.

A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.

Nostril. [Obs.] [Written also nosethurl, nosthrill.] Chaucer.

That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

Nozzle. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a hospital; as, nosocomial atmosphere. Dunglison.

A description or classification of diseases.

Of or pertaining to nosology.

One versed in nosology.

A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

nd obtained as a yellowish gray, odorless, tasteless powder by the action of iodine on phenolphthalein.

Morbid dread of disease.

Producing diseases. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Wottest not; knowest not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Same as Nostalgia.

A genus of algæ. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance.

One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

or device proposed by a quack. The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks. Brougham.