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The power of smelling; hence, scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. Collier.

A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head.

That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose.

A bleeding at the nose.

Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chieflay used in composition; as, pug-nosed.

A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy. Pope.

rse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle. [Obs.] If any man use the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet. Tyndale.

Destitute of a nose.

A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.

Nostril. [Obs.] [Written also nosethurl, nosthrill.] Chaucer.

Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands. Kirwan.

Terminating in a flat, narrow end. Lindley.

Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n.

Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

Sandy; full of sand. Johnson.

Having two spines.