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sharp-nosed, a.
1. Having a pointed nose.
1675Lond. Gaz. No. 1053/4 A Pied Dog,..shap't like a Lurcher, sharp Nosed. 1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 64 The Sharp-nosed Ray. 1829J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Amer. I. 126 Sharp-nosed Meadow-Mouse. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxii, An important-looking sharp-nosed, mysterious-spoken personage. 1881Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 140 The Sharp-nosed Eel. Anguilla vulgaris.
†2. Having a keen ‘scent’; fig. quick at fault-finding, captious. Obs.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 19 Now let come foorth al these sharpnosed fault finders. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 891/1 That wee bee not sharpe nosed to striue against the doctrine of God. |