Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A beak of a bird.
- noun A nose or snout.
- noun A projecting part, especially a nib.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
Nebraska . - noun The bill or beak of a bird; also, the snout or muzzle of a beast.
- noun The nose: as, a lang neb; a sharp neb.
- noun The face.
- noun The tip end of anything; a sharp point: as, the neb of a lancet or knife. See
nib . - noun The nib of a pen. See
nib .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now dialectal A bird's
beak orbill . - noun obsolete A person's
mouth . - noun now dialectal A person's
nose . - noun now dialectal The
nose orsnout of an animal, now especially of afish . - noun now dialectal A projecting
extremity ; apoint or sharp projection. - noun now dialectal A
nib , as of apen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun horny projecting mouth of a bird
- noun a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is only rarely, and at a later period, that prophecy is called nebû'ah, a cognate of nabî '; more ordinarily we find hazôn, vision, or word of God, oracle
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The figure is standing on a basket called a neb, which in ancient Egyptian iconography signifies a ruler or deity.
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The current thinking on Neanderthal physiology includes a neb which is capable of a large throughput, such as that.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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The current thinking on Neanderthal physiology includes a neb which is capable of a large throughput, such as that.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Some cities — Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis — shrank to one-half or less of their former size. neb Says:
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Al – but we needed to invade Iraq, right? neb Says:
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Rebecca arrives in less than a minute and asks the nurses to get a racemic epinephrine neb.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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Now he plays soccer, baseball and football, knows his peak number, when he needs the neb, and when the inhaler will do.
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I order a portable chest X-ray and an albuterol neb.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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He had created an empathy with that part of his native county's audience, "one of us" who had given the stuffed shirts and jazz-hatters down south "a bloodied neb", metaphorically at least.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi 2011
bilby commented on the word neb
Scots - nose.
December 6, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word neb
"'This is Angus Walter Edwin Murray Carmichael,' Jamie answered for him, ruffling the silky blond hair. 'Maggie's eldest son, and most commonly known as Wally.'
'We call him Snot-rag,' a small red-haired girl standing by my knee informed me. ''Cause his neb is always clotted wi' gook.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (NY: Dell, 1994), 567
January 17, 2010
dontcry commented on the word neb
In Pittsburgh, the slang term for someone who is nosey is "nebby" or a "neb-nose."
January 17, 2010