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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.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton.

One who insnares.

A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

The anterior nares. See Nares. B. G. Wilder.

d and brought into trouble. If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee. Shak.

One who lays snares, or entraps.

A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.

Deprived of virility, or seminal energy; made a eunuch. [Obs.]

onds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces. Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. Milton.

To entrap; to insnare. [Obs.] Grafton.