Aquiline

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aquiline \Aq"ui*line\ (?; 277), a. [L. aquilinus, fr. aquila
     eagle: cf. F. aquilin. See {Eagle}. ]
     1. Belonging to or like an eagle.
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     2. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; --


        applied particularly to the nose
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              Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. --Cowper.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aquiline
       adj : curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: {hooked}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "aquiline":
     Roman-nosed, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline-nosed, avian,
     avicular, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, beaked, bill-like, bill-shaped,
     billed, birdlike, birdy, clawlike, columbine, crookbilled, crooked,
     crooknosed, dovelike, down-curving, goosy, hamate, hamiform,
     hamulate, hawklike, hooked, hooklike, nesting, nidicolous,
     nidificant, oscine, parrot-nosed, passerine, psittacine, rasorial,
     rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, unciform, uncinate, unguiform