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Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.

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

The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift.

A peculiar mammal (Okapia johnostoni) closely related to the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Kongo in 1900. It is smaller than an ox, and somewhat like a giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on each frontal bone of the male.…

Prognostication by the letters of a name.

A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.

A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

g a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.

atter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]

Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.

to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

Having the nostril covered with a scale. Pomarine jager (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic jager (Stercorarius pomarinus) having the elongated middle tail feathers obtuse. The adult is black.

A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign. [Obs.]

Prophetic; prognostic. [R.]

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton.

scillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. He doth not prophesy good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8. Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. Shak.

A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.