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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A nasal hemorrhage; bleeding from the nose.
  • adjective So high as to be supposed to cause a person's nose to bleed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hemorrhage or bleeding at the nose; epistaxis.
  • noun The common yarrow or milfoil.
  • noun The American birthroot or wake-robiu, Trillium erectum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A bleeding at the nose.
  • noun (Bot.) The yarrow. See Yarrow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A haemorrhage from the nose.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun bleeding from the nose

Etymologies

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From nose +‎ bleed.

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