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acid piecering spirit which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne.

Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.

Distinguishing mark; diagnostic. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

resent the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.

Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ. "Docetic Gnosticism." Plumptre.

One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

e of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.

Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A form; a shape. [R.] So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

o give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.

Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.

ss depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.