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Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places. [R.] Woodward.

Of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities; having the character or odor of urine; similar to urine. Arbuthnot.

Poisonous. [Obs.]

Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond.

Vinous.

Having wounds; vulnerose. [R.]

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.

Same as Adenose.

and anon, now and then; frequently; often. A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose. Shak.

Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

de upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. Cowper .

ldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.

with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; Crabb.