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A water course; a ditch. [Written also rean.] [Prov. Eng.] Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.

The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

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

A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.

Having the nose narrow; -- said esp. of the skull. Opposed to platyrhine.

Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.

tly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. Murrhine glass, glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.

Murrhine.

Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

Having the nose broad; -- opposed to Ant: leptorhine. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs. -- n. (Zoöl.)

A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

r pertaining to the Belgæ, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

n carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

A fine white wine produced on the estate of Schloss (or Castle) Johannisberg, on the Rhine.

A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

A celebrated Rhine wine.