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One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.

The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.

Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.

Prognostication; soothsaying. [Obs.] Cockeram.

st Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. H. cerphalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). Harpy fly (Zoöl.), the house fly.

A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.

larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.

Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. -- Home"sick`ness, n.

One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness. God is infallible, impeccable, and absolutely perfect. P. Skelton.

ecially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. The indifferentism which equalizes all religions and gives equal rights to truth and error. Cardinal Manning.

A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.

tle, June bug (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large brown beetles of the genus Lachnosterna and related genera; -- so called because they begin to fly, in the northern United States, about the first of June. The larvæ of the June beetles live under ground, and feed upon the roots of grasses and other plants. Cal…

h (Hæmopis vorax), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

Spare, meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy. "Lenten entertainment." " Lenten answer." Shak. " Lenten suit." Beau. & Fl. Lenten color, black or violet. F. G. Lee.

A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C.…

One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.

The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

A nostril. [R.] B. Jonson.

The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.

Of or belonging to the nostrils.