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1693 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 2) 146 Nares, the Nostrils.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Nose Two Bones, which..are..divided in the middle by a third..into two Partitions, call'd the Nares, or Nostrils.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The nares of fish differ also in proportion.

1811 Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 140 The blowholes or nares were united at the posterior part into one tube.

1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 104/1 The introduction of a cylindrical plug of lint through the anterior nares.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Naris, the nostril.

1913 Cunningham's Text-bk. Anat. (ed. 4) 799 Its base, directed downwards, is perforated by the nares or nostrils.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xviii. 260 Just back of the tip of the blunt snout lies a pair of openings, the nostrils or external nares.

1970 Arch. Otolaryngol. 92 281 (title) Fixation of Foley catheter against external naris.

1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) ix. 143 The anterior nares are the usual habitat of the bacteria in carriers.

1993 T. Hawkins Pepper vii. 127 No amount of probing, blowing and wiping will convince me that I haven't a bogey peeping out of one of my nares.

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes vi. 73/2 Hagfishes and lampreys have only a single naris and a median olfactory sac nostril (hence an alternate name for the lampreys, the Monorhina).