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Of or pertaining to the nose.

To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose.

In a nasal manner; by the nose.

Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.

Having the shape of a nose.

A combining form denoting pertaining to, or connected with, the nose; as, nasofrontal.

Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate.

of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.

Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.

Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.

The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen. [Also written nib.] Shak.

the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

Nose. [Obs.] Piers plowman.

s cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. Spenser.

The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.

To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud. And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.

Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.