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Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.] Methinks a man Of your sagacity and clear nostril should Have made another choice. B. Jonson.

n aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.

or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.

A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

stone. Shak. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7.

rrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.

acid piecering spirit which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne.

resent the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

e of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.

A form; a shape. [R.] So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

ss depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.

Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.

st Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. H. cerphalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). Harpy fly (Zoöl.), the house fly.

A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.

h (Hæmopis vorax), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

A nostril. [R.] B. Jonson.