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Nasal   /nˈeɪzəl/   Listen
adjective
Nasal  adj.  
1.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nose.
2.
(Phon.) 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.
Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals.
Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse breadth of the anterior nasal aperture to the height from the base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter distance is taken as the standard, equal to 100.


noun
Nasal  n.  
1.
An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
2.
(Med.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. (Archaic)
3.
(Anc. Armor) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
4.
(Anat.) One of the nasal bones.
5.
(Zool.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.





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"Nasal" Quotes from Famous Books



... not know whether to laugh or to cry. So, of all things, a gramophone needs must come on the scene at such a time, repeating at every winding the nasal twang of its theatrical songs! What a fearsome thing results when a machine apes ...
— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore
... and in chivalry. Never, till then, had he Roland seen, But well he knew him by form and mien, By the stately bearing and glance of pride, And a fear was on him he might not hide. Fain would he fly, but it skills not here; Roland smote him with stroke so sheer, That it cleft the nasal his helm beneath, Slitting nostril and mouth and teeth, Cleft his body and mail of plate, And the gilded saddle whereon he sate, Deep the back of the charger through: Beyond all succor the twain he slew. From the Spanish ranks a wail ...
— The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And Notes • Various
... man of lean narrative, fit to chronicle political party wrangles and such like crop of carcase prose: this is epical. In DRINK we have Old England's organic Epic; Greeks and Trojans; Parliamentary Olympus, ennobled brewers, nasal fanatics, all the machinery to hand. Keep a straight eye on the primary motives of man, you'll own the English produce the material for proud verse; they're alive there! Dartrey's Demerara makes a pretty episode of the battle. I haven't seen it—if it's possible to look on it: but I hear ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... was swung in time with the song. The singing was slow in movement and nasal in quality. The last note was unmusical and uttered ...
— The Seminole Indians of Florida • Clay MacCauley
... no nets were put up, with the result that one and all soon learnt that for fresh blood and newcomers there was a plethora of these little demons waiting with their irritating song, sting, and bite: from some of the party we learn complaints of other songs, more human, and more nasal, and it is believed that it was Our Guest who was heard at midnight to be murmuring the chorus of a favourite song, viz., "Hush, boys! No noise! Silence ebryting! Listen, and you'll hear de little angels sing." At least it says "angels" in the song, but ...
— Argentina From A British Point Of View • Various


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