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phaly, fair complexion with dark hair and eyes, plentiful beard, and narrow and prominent nose.

A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

A variety of small pet dogs, having, drooping ears, a high, dome-shaped forehead, pug nose, large, prominent eyes, and long, wavy hair. The color is usually black and tan.

metimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [U. S.]

Formed by the lips and the nose. -- n.

Having the nose narrow; -- said esp. of the skull. Opposed to platyrhine.

ree lungwort, a lichen (Sticta pulmonacea) growing on trees and rocks. The thallus is lacunose, and in appearance somewhat resembles the lungs, for diseases of which it was once thought a remedy.

abiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. -- Lyre turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

ing the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.

African baboon (Cynocephalus, or Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.

Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

e lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.

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

A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

The nose band of a horse's bridle.

monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.

The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.

Formed like the nose.