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▪ I. nebule1|ˈnɛbjuːl|
[Anglicized f. nebula.]
1. A cloud; a mist or fog. Also fig.
c1420Lydg. Commend. Our Lady 53 O..Light withoute nebule, shyning in thy spere.
1869Blackmore Lorna D. iii, The Baroness will not touch unless a nebule be formed outside the glass. 1877― Cripps (1887) 175 Nebules of logic, dialectic fogs, and thunderstorms of enthymem.
2. Astron. A nebula. Also fig.
1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 179 The nebule of returning culture in Germany first became visible to the naked eye at Zurich and Leipzig. 1837Goodrich Sun, Moon & Stars xxxii. (ed. 2) 185 Small luminous spots, of a cloudy appearance, which we thence call nebulæ or nebules.
▸ Pharmacol. A proprietary name for: a container for a pharmaceutical adapted for inhalation by means of a nebulizer or atomizer; such a container and its contents; the contents themselves. Cf. nebula n. 4.
1983Trade Marks Jrnl. 9 Mar. 411/2 Nebule... Containers adapted for holding pharmaceutical and veterinary preparations and substances and for use with nebulizers... 3rd February, 1981. 1987Anaesthesia 42 1332 (title) Ventolin nebules. 1993Med. Jrnl. Austral. 158751 Group 1 received one Nebule (2.5 mg salbutamol in 2.5 mL aqueous solution) delivered by wet nebulisation. 2003Pharmaceut. Technol. N. Amer. (Nexis) Jan. 15 Previous FDA rules require ‘permeable-plastic’ nebules to be marketed in labeled foil pouches.
▪ II. nebule2 Arch.|ˈnɛbjuːl|
[app. a misapprehension of nebulé.]
A moulding of a wavy or serpentine form (see next).
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 589 Nebule; a zigzag ornament, but without angles, frequently found in the remains of Saxon architecture. 1836H. G. Knight Archit. Tour Normandy 199 The most common mouldings are the billet,..hatchet, nebule, star, rope.
attrib.1848B. Webb Cont. Ecclesiol. 45 The nave and aisles and west transept have a nebule corbel-tabling. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1515/2 Nebule-molding.
transf.1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. 251 note, The stocking is of silver tissue, worked with gold birds..and a peculiar ornament—a nebule, white and blue, with yellow rays shooting from its edge. |