slovodefinícia
nosed
(encz)
nosed,nosatý adj: Zdeněk Brož
Nosed
(gcide)
Nose \Nose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nosed (n[=o]zd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Nosing.]
1. To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
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2. To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against;
hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
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Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. --Tennyson.
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A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature
. . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its
authority. --Burke.
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3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal
twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] --Cowley.
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4. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet.
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5. To furnish with a nose; as, to nose a stair tread.
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6. To examine with the nose or sense of smell.
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7. To make by advancing the nose or front end; as, the train
nosed its way into the station;
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8. (Racing Slang) to beat by (the length of) a nose. Hence,
to defeat in a contest by a small margin; also used in the
form nose out.
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Nosed
(gcide)
Nosed \Nosed\, a.
Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chiefly used in
composition; as, pug-nosed.
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nosed
(wn)
nosed
adj 1: having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially
of a specified kind [ant: noseless]
podobné slovodefinícia
cone-nosed bug
(encz)
cone-nosed bug, n:
cow-nosed ray
(encz)
cow-nosed ray, n:
diagnosed
(encz)
diagnosed,diagnostikovaný adj: Zdeněk Broždiagnosed,stanovený adj: Zdeněk Brož
hard nosed
(encz)
hard nosed,
hard-nosed
(encz)
hard-nosed,neústupný adj: Rostislav Svobodahard-nosed,paličatý adj: Rostislav Svoboda
hog-nosed badger
(encz)
hog-nosed badger, n:
hog-nosed skunk
(encz)
hog-nosed skunk, n:
hognosed skunk
(encz)
hognosed skunk, n:
hook-nosed
(encz)
hook-nosed,se skobovitým nosem Zdeněk Brož
leaf-nosed bat
(encz)
leaf-nosed bat, n:
leaf-nosed snake
(encz)
leaf-nosed snake, n:
nosedive
(encz)
nosedive,letět střemhlav v:
nosedove
(encz)
nosedove,
pug-nosed
(encz)
pug-nosed,
snot-nosed
(encz)
snot-nosed,
snotty-nosed
(encz)
snotty-nosed,
snotty-nosed kid
(encz)
snotty-nosed kid,
snub-nosed
(encz)
snub-nosed,tuponosý adj: Zdeněk Brož
soft-nosed
(encz)
soft-nosed, adj:
star-nosed mole
(encz)
star-nosed mole, n:
stenosed
(encz)
stenosed, adj:
toffee-nosed
(encz)
toffee-nosed, adj:
tube-nosed bat
(encz)
tube-nosed bat, n:
tube-nosed fruit bat
(encz)
tube-nosed fruit bat, n:
undiagnosed
(encz)
undiagnosed,
snot-nosed egotistical rude teenager
(czen)
Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager,SNERT[zkr.]
Blunt-nosed shiner
(gcide)
Shiner \Shin"er\, n.
That which shines. Specifically:
(a) A luminary.
(b) A bright piece of money. [Slang]
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Has she the shiners, d' ye think? --Foote.
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(c) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater
American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or
Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin ({Notropis
megalops}), and the golden shiner ({Notemigonus
chrysoleucus}) of the Eastern United States; also loosely
applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar
fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice,
and the sparada.
(d) (Zool.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
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Blunt-nosed shiner (Zool.), the silver moonfish.
[1913 Webster]Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called
also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
(b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); --
called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
(c) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
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bluntnosed shiner
(gcide)
Shiner \Shin"er\, n.
That which shines. Specifically:
(a) A luminary.
(b) A bright piece of money. [Slang]
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Has she the shiners, d' ye think? --Foote.
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(c) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater
American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or
Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin ({Notropis
megalops}), and the golden shiner ({Notemigonus
chrysoleucus}) of the Eastern United States; also loosely
applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar
fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice,
and the sparada.
(d) (Zool.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
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Blunt-nosed shiner (Zool.), the silver moonfish.
[1913 Webster]Moonfish \Moon"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called
also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
(b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); --
called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
(c) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
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Bottle-nosed
(gcide)
Bottle-nosed \Bot"tle-nosed`\ (-n[=o]zd), a.
Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
--Dickens.
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Bottle-nosed dolphin
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Bottle-nose \Bot"tle-nose`\ Bottle-nosed dolphin \Bot"tle-nosed`
dolphin\, n. (Zool.)
1. A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species,
as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of
Europe.

Note: Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?

Syn: bottlenose dolphin.
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2. The puffin.
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3. a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.

Syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon
ampullatus.
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bottle-nosed whale
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Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zool.)
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
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Pygmy sperm whale (Zool.), a small whale ({Kogia
breviceps}), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
also snub-nosed cachalot.

Sperm-whale porpoise (Zool.), a toothed cetacean
(Hyperoodon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic
and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
[1913 Webster]Bottlehead \Bot"tle*head`\, n. (Zool.)
A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also
bottle-nosed whale.
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Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot
whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more
species of Hypero["o]don (Hypero["o]don bidens,
etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1.
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copper-nosed bream
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Dollardee \Dol`lar*dee"\, n. (Zool.)
A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the
United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and
copper-nosed bream.
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cow-nosed ray
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Whipparee \Whip`pa*ree"\, n. (Zool.)
(a) A large sting ray (Dasybatis Sayi, or Trygon Sayi)
native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of
large spines on the body and tail.
(b) A large sting ray (Rhinoptera bonasus, or {Rhinoptera
quadriloba}) of the Atlantic coast of the United States.
Its snout appears to be four-lobed when viewed in front,
whence it is also called cow-nosed ray.
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Cyanosed
(gcide)
Cyanosed \Cy"a*nosed\ (s?"?-n?st), a. [See Cyanic.]
Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or
deficient a["e]ration of the blood.
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hard-nosed
(gcide)
hard-nosed \hard-nosed\ adj.
facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and
observation rather than theory; tough and pragmatic; as, a
hard-nosed businessman.

Syn: down-to-earth, hardheaded, practical, pragmatic.
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hollow-nosed bullets
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Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), n.; pl. Men (m[e^]n). [AS. mann, man,
monn, mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel.
ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr.
manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
[root]104. Cf. Minx a pert girl.]
1. A human being; -- opposed to beast.
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These men went about wide, and man found they none,
But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
of Glouc.
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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
him as it doth to me. --Shak.
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'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! --W. C.
Fields
[PJC]

2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
as distinguished from a woman or a child.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
Cor. xiii. 11.
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Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
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3. The human race; mankind.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
26.
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The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
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4. The male portion of the human race.
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Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
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5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
--Shak.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man!" --Shak.
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6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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Like master, like man. --Old Proverb.
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The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
professed that he did become his man from that day
forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
--Blackstone.
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7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the
part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,
or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the
latter half of the 20th century it became used in a
broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of
address, but is not used in business or formal situations;
as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.
[Informal]
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8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
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I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
Com. Prayer.
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every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
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9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
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A man can not make him laugh. --Shak.
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A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
of a Roman ship. --Addison.
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10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
draughts, are played.
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Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
separate adjective, its sense being usually
self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
worship, etc.
Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the
male sex having a business which pertains to the thing
spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound;
ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman,
fireman, repairman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where
the combination is not familiar, or where some specific
meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
(as distinguished from woodman).
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Man ape (Zool.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.

Man at arms, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries for a soldier fully armed.

Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
people through considerable distances; specifically
(Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
between the successive landings. A man steps from a
landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
successive stages.

Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of
another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.

Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.

Man-of-the earth (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipomoea
pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
root.

Man of sin (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
expression]

Man of war.
(a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
(b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
(c) See Portuguese man-of-war under man-of-war and
also see Physalia.

Man-stopping bullet (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
when striking the human body, producing a severe wound
which is also difficult to treat medically. Types of
bullets called hollow-nosed bullets, {soft-nosed
bullets} and hollow-point bullets are classed as
man-stopping. The dumdum bullet or dumdum is another
well-known variety. Such bullets were originally designed
for wars with savage tribes.

great man, a man[2] who has become prominent due to
substantial and widely admired contributions to social or
intellectual endeavors; as, Einstein was one of the great
men of the twentieth century.

To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to
be subject to another.
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Hook-nosed
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Hook-nosed \Hook"-nosed`\, a.
Having a hooked or aquiline nose. --Shak.
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Leaf-nosed
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Leaf-nosed \Leaf"-nosed`\, n. (Zool.)
Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain
bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris.
See Vampire.
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Nosed
(gcide)
Nose \Nose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nosed (n[=o]zd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Nosing.]
1. To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
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2. To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against;
hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
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Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. --Tennyson.
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A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature
. . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its
authority. --Burke.
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3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal
twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] --Cowley.
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4. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet.
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5. To furnish with a nose; as, to nose a stair tread.
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6. To examine with the nose or sense of smell.
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7. To make by advancing the nose or front end; as, the train
nosed its way into the station;
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8. (Racing Slang) to beat by (the length of) a nose. Hence,
to defeat in a contest by a small margin; also used in the
form nose out.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Nosed \Nosed\, a.
Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chiefly used in
composition; as, pug-nosed.
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nose-dive
(gcide)
nosedive \nose"dive`\, nose-dive \nose"-dive`\v. i.
To drop with the nose or front first, as of an airplane.

Syn: nosedive.
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nosedive
(gcide)
nosedive \nose"dive`\, nose-dive \nose"-dive`\v. i.
To drop with the nose or front first, as of an airplane.

Syn: nosedive.
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Pug-nosed
(gcide)
Pug nose \Pug" nose`\
A short, thick nose; a snubnose. -- Pug"-nosed`, a.
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Pug-nose eel (Zool.), a deep-water marine eel ({Simenchelys
parasiticus}) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of
the halibut.
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Shovel-nosed
(gcide)
Shovel-nosed \Shov"el-nosed`\, a. (Zool.)
Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or
shoveler.
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Shovel-nosed sturgeon
(gcide)
Sturgeon \Stur"geon\, n. [F. esturgeon, LL. sturio, sturgio,
OHG. sturjo, G. st["o]r; akin to AS. styria, styriga.]
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid
fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the
family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are
common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of
North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviar is prepared from the
roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.
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Note: The common North American species are {Acipenser
sturio} of the Atlantic coast region, {Acipenser
transmontanus} of the Pacific coast, and {Acipenser
rubicundus} of the Mississippi River and its
tributaries. In Europe, the common species is
Acipenser sturio, and other well-known species are
the sterlet and the huso. The sturgeons are included in
the order Chondrostei. Their body is partially
covered by five rows of large, carinated, bony plates,
of which one row runs along the back. The tail is
heterocercal. The toothless and protrusile mouth is
beneath the head, and has four barbels in front.
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Shovel-nosed sturgeon. (Zool.) See Shovelnose
(d) .
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Snub-nosed
(gcide)
Snub-nosed \Snub"-nosed`\, a.
Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the
snub-nosed eel.
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Snub-nosed cachalot (Zool.), the pygmy sperm whale.
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Snub-nosed cachalot
(gcide)
Snub-nosed \Snub"-nosed`\, a.
Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the
snub-nosed eel.
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Snub-nosed cachalot (Zool.), the pygmy sperm whale.
[1913 Webster]Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zool.)
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
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Pygmy sperm whale (Zool.), a small whale ({Kogia
breviceps}), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
also snub-nosed cachalot.

Sperm-whale porpoise (Zool.), a toothed cetacean
(Hyperoodon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic
and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
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snub-nosed cachalot
(gcide)
Snub-nosed \Snub"-nosed`\, a.
Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the
snub-nosed eel.
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Snub-nosed cachalot (Zool.), the pygmy sperm whale.
[1913 Webster]Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zool.)
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
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Pygmy sperm whale (Zool.), a small whale ({Kogia
breviceps}), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
also snub-nosed cachalot.

Sperm-whale porpoise (Zool.), a toothed cetacean
(Hyperoodon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic
and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
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soft-nosed bullets
(gcide)
Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), n.; pl. Men (m[e^]n). [AS. mann, man,
monn, mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel.
ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr.
manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
[root]104. Cf. Minx a pert girl.]
1. A human being; -- opposed to beast.
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These men went about wide, and man found they none,
But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
of Glouc.
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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
him as it doth to me. --Shak.
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'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! --W. C.
Fields
[PJC]

2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
as distinguished from a woman or a child.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
Cor. xiii. 11.
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Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

3. The human race; mankind.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
26.
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The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
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4. The male portion of the human race.
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Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
--Shak.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man!" --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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Like master, like man. --Old Proverb.
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The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
professed that he did become his man from that day
forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
--Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]

7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the
part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,
or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the
latter half of the 20th century it became used in a
broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of
address, but is not used in business or formal situations;
as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.
[Informal]
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8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
[1913 Webster]

I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
Com. Prayer.
[1913 Webster]

every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]

9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
[1913 Webster]

A man can not make him laugh. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
of a Roman ship. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]

10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
draughts, are played.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
separate adjective, its sense being usually
self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
worship, etc.
Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the
male sex having a business which pertains to the thing
spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound;
ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman,
fireman, repairman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where
the combination is not familiar, or where some specific
meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
(as distinguished from woodman).
[1913 Webster]

Man ape (Zool.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.

Man at arms, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries for a soldier fully armed.

Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
people through considerable distances; specifically
(Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
between the successive landings. A man steps from a
landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
successive stages.

Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of
another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.

Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.

Man-of-the earth (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipomoea
pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
root.

Man of sin (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
expression]

Man of war.
(a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
(b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
(c) See Portuguese man-of-war under man-of-war and
also see Physalia.

Man-stopping bullet (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
when striking the human body, producing a severe wound
which is also difficult to treat medically. Types of
bullets called hollow-nosed bullets, {soft-nosed
bullets} and hollow-point bullets are classed as
man-stopping. The dumdum bullet or dumdum is another
well-known variety. Such bullets were originally designed
for wars with savage tribes.

great man, a man[2] who has become prominent due to
substantial and widely admired contributions to social or
intellectual endeavors; as, Einstein was one of the great
men of the twentieth century.

To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to
be subject to another.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
star-nosed mole
(gcide)
Starnose \Star"nose`\ (st[aum]r"n[=o]z`), n. (Zool.)
A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the
nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also
star-nosed mole.
[1913 Webster]
Tube-nosed
(gcide)
Tube-nosed \Tube"-nosed`\, a. (Zool.)
(a) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes
along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea
birds.
(b) Belonging to the Tubinares.
[1913 Webster]
bottle-nosed dolphin
(wn)
bottle-nosed dolphin
n 1: any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-
developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and
Mediterranean [syn: bottlenose dolphin, {bottle-nosed
dolphin}, bottlenose]
bottle-nosed whale
(wn)
bottle-nosed whale
n 1: northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
[syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale,
bottlenose, Hyperoodon ampullatus]
broadnosed
(wn)
broadnosed
adj 1: of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far
apart or to people with broad noses [syn: platyrrhine,
platyrrhinian, platyrhine, platyrhinian,
platyrrhinic, broadnosed] [ant: catarrhine,
catarrhinian, leptorhine, leptorrhine,
leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic]
bullnosed plane
(wn)
bullnosed plane
n 1: a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the
front [syn: bullnose, bullnosed plane]
cone-nosed bug
(wn)
cone-nosed bug
n 1: large bloodsucking bug [syn: conenose, cone-nosed bug,
conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug]
cow-nosed ray
(wn)
cow-nosed ray
n 1: large ray found along eastern coast of North America [syn:
cownose ray, cow-nosed ray, Rhinoptera bonasus]
hard-nosed
(wn)
hard-nosed
adj 1: guided by practical experience and observation rather
than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a
hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his
approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic
politics" [syn: hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical,
pragmatic]
hog-nosed badger
(wn)
hog-nosed badger
n 1: southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig [syn: {hog
badger}, hog-nosed badger, sand badger, {Arctonyx
collaris}]
hog-nosed skunk
(wn)
hog-nosed skunk
n 1: large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of
southwestern North America and Mexico [syn: {hog-nosed
skunk}, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk,
Conepatus leuconotus]
hognosed skunk
(wn)
hognosed skunk
n 1: large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of
southwestern North America and Mexico [syn: {hog-nosed
skunk}, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk,
Conepatus leuconotus]
hook-nosed
(wn)
hook-nosed
adj 1: having an aquiline nose
leaf-nosed bat
(wn)
leaf-nosed bat
n 1: bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose;
especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and
Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae [syn: leafnose bat,
leaf-nosed bat]
leaf-nosed snake
(wn)
leaf-nosed snake
n 1: any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of
southwestern North America
nosedive
(wn)
nosedive
n 1: a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline; "the stock took a
nosedive"
2: a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft [syn: dive, {nose
dive}, nosedive]
v 1: plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of
aircraft
pug-nosed
(wn)
pug-nosed
adj 1: having a blunt nose; "a pug-nosed boy with freckles"; "a
snub-nosed automatic" [syn: pug-nosed, pug-nose,
short-nosed, snub-nosed]
sharp-nosed
(wn)
sharp-nosed
adj 1: having a sharply pointed nose
short-nosed
(wn)
short-nosed
adj 1: having a blunt nose; "a pug-nosed boy with freckles"; "a
snub-nosed automatic" [syn: pug-nosed, pug-nose,
short-nosed, snub-nosed]
snot-nosed
(wn)
snot-nosed
adj 1: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a
snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le
Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and
persnickety" [syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty,
snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, {too big for one's
breeches}, uppish]
2: dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of
snot-nosed kids" [syn: snotty, snot-nosed]
snotty-nosed
(wn)
snotty-nosed
adj 1: marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious
question"; "the student was kept in for impudent
behavior" [syn: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed,
flip]
snub-nosed
(wn)
snub-nosed
adj 1: having a blunt nose; "a pug-nosed boy with freckles"; "a
snub-nosed automatic" [syn: pug-nosed, pug-nose,
short-nosed, snub-nosed]
soft-nosed
(wn)
soft-nosed
adj 1: (of a bullet) made of soft material that expands on
impact
star-nosed mole
(wn)
star-nosed mole
n 1: amphibious mole of eastern North America having pink fleshy
tentacles around the nose [syn: starnose mole, {star-
nosed mole}, Condylura cristata]
stenosed
(wn)
stenosed
adj 1: abnormally constricted body canal or passage; "a stenosed
coronary artery" [syn: stenosed, stenotic]

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