Note: In sperm whales, porpoises, and allied animals, there is only one nostril, which is situated on the top of the head and called a spiracle.
2. Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.] Methinks a man Of your sagacity and clear nostril should Have made another choice. B. Jonson.
NOSTRUM Nos"trum n.; pl. Nostrums. Etym: [Neut. sing. of L. noster ours, fr. nos we. See Us.]
1. A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
2. Any scheme or device proposed by a quack. The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks. Brougham.
NOT
Not. Etym: [Contr. from ne wot. See 2d Note.]
Defn: Wot not; know not; knows not. [Obs.] Chaucer.
NOT
Not, a.
Defn: Shorn; shaven. [Obs.] See Nott.
NOT Not, adv. Etym: [OE. not, noht, nought, naught, the same word as E. naught. See Naught.]