1. of, in, or relating to the nose.
2. linguistics articulated by lowering the soft palate so that air resonates in the nasal cavities and passes out the nose, as in the pronunciation of the consonants (m), (n), and (ng) or the nasalized vowel of french bon.
3. characterized by or resembling a resonant sound produced through the nose: a nasal whine.
4. linguistics A nasal consonant.
5. A nasal part or bone, forming part of the bridge of the nose.
6. the nosepiece of a helmet.

1. of or pertaining to the nose.
2. having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
3. an elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such asm and n.
4. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
5. A nasal vowel or consonant.
6. part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
7. one of the nasal bones.
8. A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

1. of or pertaining to the nose.
2. having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see guide to pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage
3. an elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
4. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
5. part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
6. one of the nasal bones.
7. A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

1. of or pertaining to the nose or nostrils; narial; rhinal.
2. uttered with resonance in the nose, or with admission of the expelled air into the nasal passages, by relaxation or dropping of the palatal veil that shuts them off from the pharynx.
3. in entomology, pertaining to the nasus or clypeus.
4. in ornithology, the depressions upon the bill of a bird in which the external nostrils open. these are usually wellmarked fossæ at or near the base of the bill, on either side of the culmen, naked or filled in with feathers, or arched over by an operculum or nasal scale; their characters are often of zoological importance. see cuts and diagram under bill.
5. frontal, a process of the frontal bone in part supporting the two nasal bones;
6. anterior, a median process of each maxillary bone, together forming one spine which projects at the base of the outer nostrils or anterior nares;
7. posterior, a corresponding median process of the conjoined palate-bones in the floor of the posterior nares, at the root of the uvula. the last two processes are sometimes called prenasal and postnasal. the anterior process has some ethnological significance, being best developed in the higher races of men, and is also one of several datum-points in craniometry.
8. A part of a helmet which protects the nose and adjacent parts of the face. it was made in various forms. also called nose-piece. see also cut-under helmet.
9. A sound uttered through or partly through the nose: especially, a nasal mute or stop, as m, n, ng.
10. in anatomy, one of the nasal bones.
11. in herpetology, a nasal plate or shield.

1. an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose
2. sounding as if the nose were pinched
3. of or in or relating to the nose
4. a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed