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

Having the nose bottleshaped, or large at the end. Dickens.

Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a

Having a hooked or aquiline nose. Shak.

Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.

Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub- nosed eel. Snub-nosed cachalot (Zoöl.), the pygmy sperm whale.

Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.

A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

y such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

(Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

s fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.

The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

The broad-nosed eel See Glut. [Prov. Eng.]

A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

the mother's udder. Tennyson. A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority. Burke.

A short, thick nose; a snubnose. -- Pug"-nosed`, a. Pug-nose eel (Zoöl.), a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.

Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. Shank painter (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. -- To ride shank's mare, to go on foot; to walk.

The common Lepisma, or furniture bug. Blunt-nosed shiner (Zoöl.), the silver moonfish.