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

Same as Bablh.

A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.)

like, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulæ are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.

Of or pertaining to nebulæ; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed origi…

Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.

The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill- defined, color mark.

A little cloud; a cloud. [Obs.] O light without nebule. Old Ballad.

Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.

To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.

An atomizer.

Nebulous; cloudy. Derham.

The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. The nebulosity ... of the mother idiom. I. Disraeli.

Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. -- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Neb"u*lous*ness, n.

A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NÉbulÉ

A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

See Bone black, under Bone, n.

A thicket of canes. Ellicott.

The puffin.