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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.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

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

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

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

as a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.

ry : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A large, unwieldy person. [Obs.] Nares.

A pan for warming beds. Nares.

this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.

jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. -- Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.

To crimp; as, calvered salmon. Nares.

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. Nares.

f 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

(as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.

A kind of confectionery or cake. [Obs.] Nares.