Nasal

Definitions

1. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
   archaic
2. An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
3. Ellipsis of nasal consonant.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
4. Ellipsis of nasal vowel.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
5. The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
   historical
6. Ellipsis of nasal bone.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7. A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“The nasal continued in use⟳ until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.”

“Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron⟳ nasal that made it hard to see⟳ that he did not have⟳ a nose.”

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