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单词 nostril
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nostriln.

Brit. /ˈnɒstr(ᵻ)l/, U.S. /ˈnɑstr(ə)l/
Forms:

α. Old English nosþirl, Old English–early Middle English nosþyrl, Old English–early Middle English nosðyrl, late Old English–early Middle English nosþyrll, early Middle English nosþrul, early Middle English nosþurl, Middle English nosþrell, Middle English 1600s nosthirl, 1500s nosthrille, 1500s nosthryll, 1500s–1600s nosthrill, 1500s–1600s (1900s– archaic) nosthril, 1600s nosthrel; Scottish 1800s nosthril.

β. Old English nostðyrl (rare), Old English–Middle English nosterl, Middle English noistrell, Middle English nostrelle, Middle English (1800s archaic) nostrille, Middle English–1600s nostrel, Middle English–1600s nostrell, Middle English–1600s nostrill, 1500s nosteril, 1500s nostryl, 1500s–1600s nostryll, 1500s– nostril, 1600s norstrel; Scottish 1800s nostirle.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nose n., thirl n.1
Etymology: < nose n. + thirl n.1 Compare Old Frisian nosterle . Compare nose-thirl n., a later compound of the same two elements. Compare also nasethirl n., nesethirl n.For the assimilation of -sþ- to -st- in Old English see A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §481.1 and compare lest conj.
a. Either of the two external openings in the nose or nasal cavity in humans and most other tetrapods, usually admitting smells to the olfactory organs and air to the lungs; also called external or anterior naris. Also: a similar opening in the head of fishes, associated with the olfactory organ. Also in extended use.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > nostril
nasethirleOE
nostrilOE
nesethirla1275
nose-thirla1333
thirla1350
narea1398
thrilla1400
nose-holl?a1425
nose-holec1450
throlla1475
narel1486
snot-hole1648
snuffera1658
snurl1691
naris1693
smeller1854
prenaris1882
α.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) vi. 59 Þa wearð þæt hus afylled mid wunderlicum bræðe..and se bræð on heora nosðyrlum ne ateorode.
OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Hatton) (O.E.D. transcript) vii. 256 Wiþ blodryne of nosum adryg gate blod & gnid to duste, do on þæt nosþyrl, hyt wiðstandeþ.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Hatton) (O.E.D. transcript) (1984) i. 32 Wiþ swilcne blodryne of nosum genim þa ylcan wyrte..& do on þa nosþyrlu [?a1200 Harl. 6258B nosþyrle].
c1500 Young Children's Bk. (Ashm. 61) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 25 Wype not thi nose nor þi nos-thirlys.
1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements i. xxv. 148 See what a hooke the Lord put in the nosthrils of this barking dogge.
1614 J. Norden Labyrinth Mans Life sig. Hv Her nosthrels wide, her breath a stinking sent.
a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) 9 They're downe his throate. his mouth cramb'd full; his Eares, and Nosthrills stufft.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 95 Vapours..distill..by the nosthrils.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian I. iv. 81 What hae the wicked beyond the breath of their nosthrils?
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. ii. 67 Rose Hildegond, encumbered her blue eyes, Of acrid mist, which in her nosthrils, pricks.
β. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 70 Uibra, nosterla hær.OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 168 Pinnulae, uteweard nosterle.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 11 Precious stones þat schulde..be i-holde to þe nostrelle of men.?c1450 (c1425) Brut (Harl. 24) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1874) 52 16 (MED) There shall come oute of his nostrelle a droppe that shall be token hunger.1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cvij Castyng wat thorogh her Nostrellis or hir nares.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxvii. 3 As longe as the wynde..is in my nostrels.1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. ⁋iij My nostrells [were fed] with most comfortable sauours.1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies §5 192 Forth from the furnace of his Nostrell, flies A sulpherous vapour.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 280 So sented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His Nostril wide into the murkie Air. View more context for this quotation1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 35. ⁋2 To supply his weak Brain with Powder at the nearest Place of Access, viz. the Nostrils.1777 J. Priestley Matter & Spirit (1782) I. v. 54 Could we have had any idea..of smell without the nostrils, and the olfactory nerves?1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 36 His nostrils, more complicated than those of the monkey, are less so than those of all other genera.1854 D. Brewster More Worlds iii. 39 The lofty peak with its cap of ice or its nostrils of fire.1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World x. 101 The poisonous species, however, carries its points of marked differentiation in having elliptical pupils, prominent cavity or pit between the eye and nostril, and greater number of plates under the tail in a single row.1967 W. Styron Confessions Nat Turner iii. 292 An odor of burnt pine scorched and seared my nostrils.1990 Boston May 124/3 He was so close I could see the flare of his nostrils and hear the thud of his hooves.1995 J. S. Ryland in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Hanbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe xiv. 712 Cyclostomes possess a single nostril on top of the head.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Chiefly with connotation of moral sensitivity.
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1596 F. Sabie Olde Worldes Trag. in Adams Complaint sig. D4 Realmes full of errors, mountaines huge of shrewdnes. The height whereof vnto his throne ascended, And with their stench his nostrils sore offended.
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iii. sig. F3 I want braine, Or nostrill to perswade mee, that your endes, And purposes are made to what they are, Before my answer? View more context for this quotation
a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 7 Am I denos'de? or doth the Worlds ill sents Engarison my nosthrills narrow bore?
1777 Westm. Mag. 5 343/2 It is a puff that stinks in the nostrils of the living, but reaches not those of the dead.
1812 Burke's Speech Middlesex Election, 1771 in Wks. V. 367 Our judgments stink in the nostrils of the people.
1844 R. W. Emerson Nature in Wks. (1913) II. 231 There is no end..so sacred or so large, that, if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion and an offence to the nostril.
1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 78 Its moral nostrils were of an equally masculine temper.
a1930 R. Bridges Poet. Wks. (1936) 432 Good-works, Saith-she, offend her nostril.
1986 J. Nagenda Seasons of T. Tebo ii. i. 51 To this day the evening was in his very nostrils: the bleak little airport lounge,..the wet hot air.

Compounds

nostril dropping n. (also nostrils dropping) Obsolete rare a disease of cattle (not identified).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle
murrainc1450
gall1577
gargyse1577
sprenges1577
wisp1577
closh1587
milting1587
moltlong1587
hammer1600
mallet1600
scurvy1604
wither1648
speed1704
nostril dropping1708
bladdera1722
heartsick1725
throstling1726
striking1776
feather-cling1799
hollow-horn1805
weed1811
blood striking1815
the slows1822
toad-bit1825
coast-fever1840
horn-distemper1843
rat's tail1847
whethering1847
milk fever1860
milt-sickness1867
pearl tumour1872
actinomycosis1877
pearl disease1877
rat-tail1880
lumpy jaw1891
niatism1895
cripple1897
rumenitis1897
Rhodesian fever1903
reticulitis1905
barbone1907
contagious abortion1910
trichomoniasis1915
shipping fever1932
New Forest disease1954
bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987
BSE1987
mad cow disease1988
East Coast fever2009
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Nostrils-Dropping, a Distemper in Cattel.
1726 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Nostril Dropping, a Distemper in Cattle.
nostril fly n. any of various parasitic flies that lay their eggs in the nostrils of mammals; esp. (more fully sheep nostril fly) Oestrus ovis (family Oestridae), which infests sheep and goats (also called sheep botfly).
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1884 E. A. Ormerod Some Observ. Œstridae 8 The Sheep Nostril-Fly, Œstrus (Cephalemyia) ovis, is amongst our regular sheep pests.
1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. iii. 17 The sheep nostril fly, Cephalomyia ovis, and the cattle fly, Hippobosca equina, also seem only to fly and reproduce in bright sunlight.
1997 World Animal Rev. 88 56 Respiratory diseases.., sheep nostril fly, malnutrition and enterotoxemia affect these livestock with a particular intensity.
nostril-piece n. Entomology Obsolete rare = rhinarium n. 1a.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > space between nasus and lip
rhinarium1823
nostril-piece1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 481 A part of the nose [sc. of an insect]..which I have..named the Rhinarium or nostril-piece.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nostrilv.

Brit. /ˈnɒstr(ᵻ)l/, U.S. /ˈnɑstr(ə)l/
Inflections: Present participle nostrilling, (chiefly U.S.) nostriling; past tense and past participle nostrilled, (chiefly U.S.) nostriled;
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nostril n.
Etymology: < nostril n. Compare earlier nostrilled adj.
1. transitive. To form a nostril around (in quot. figurative). rare.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [verb (intransitive)] > nostril
flirt1553
nostril1942
1942 A. L. Rowse Cornish Childhood (1943) 36 The blue summer sea curling round the ships of those emigrant miners, the water nostrilling the stem.
2. transitive. To inhale or exhale through the nose.
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1971 A. Hunter Gently at Gallop v. 49 He was smoking a small, sooty briar... He nostrilled a couple of wisps of smoke.
1989 M. Ripley Just Another Angel (BNC) 201 There had been a young punk called Emma..nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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