Definition of nostril

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Nostril (n.) Perception; insight; acuteness.

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Pip :: Pip (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a scale on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them..
Narine :: Narine (a.) Of or belonging to the nostrils.
Phyllorhine :: Phyllorhine (a.) Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
Pervious :: Pervious (a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds..
Nosethril :: Nosethril (n.) Nostril.
Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..
Blowhole :: Blowhole (n.) A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
Thrill :: Thrill (v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird..
Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man..
Snort :: Snort (v. t.) To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.
Rhinitis :: Rhinitis (n.) Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils..
Fossa :: Fossa (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds..
Berna Fly :: Berna fly () A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae do great injury..
Dipnoi :: Dipnoi (n. pl.) A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present 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..
Nare :: Nare (n.) A nostril.
Nares :: Nares (n. pl.) The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx..
Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals..
Gymnorhinal :: Gymnorhinal (a.) Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds..
Strepsorhine :: Strepsorhine (a.) Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs.
Tube-nosed :: Tube-nosed (a.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
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