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himself with sporting with a tame partridge. Jer. Taylor. These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent. Dr. H. More.

Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.

ted by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from nostrils. and sometimes from the hands and feet. Am. Cyc.

Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.

Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. -- Screw wrench. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. -- To put the screw, or screws, on, to use…

f a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.

To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort. Keats.

Augury; prognostication. [Obs.] The soothe of birds by beating of their wings. Spenser.

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication. Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. Eclus. xxxiv. 5.

The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.

stag, as , which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.

See Nostoc.

Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs. -- n. (Zoöl.)

.), a golden yellow powder, consisting of antimonic sulphide, Sb2S5, -- formerly a famous nostrum. -- Sulphur base (Chem.), an alkaline sulphide capable of acting as a base in the formation of sulphur salts according to the old dual theory of salts. [Archaic] -- Sulphur dioxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, SO2, of a pung…

y of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.

A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.