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Nozzle   /nˈɑzəl/   Listen
Nozzle

noun
(Written also nosle)
1.
A projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged.  Synonym: nose.
2.
Informal terms for the nose.  Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout.






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"Nozzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... full confession, and showed me how he did it. He had an elastic rubber bag under his shirt, and a tube going up his arm and down his sleeve, ending in a white nozzle inside his cuff. When he went to empty his glass of whisky he simply pressed some air out of the rubber bag, put the nozzle in the glass, and let it suck up all the whisky. At night he used to empty all the liquor out of the bag and sell it to a saloon-keeper. ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... that she lay down and went to sleep in the forest. The next morning the Princess, seeking moss among the ferns, found her. When she saw that it was Giroflee, she went up to her and caressed her with her nozzle, as hinds do, and looked into her eyes until at last Giroflee knew full well that it was the Princess turned into a White Hind. She watched the Hind attentively and saw two large tears fall from her eyes, and then ...
— Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book - Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations • Edmund Dulac

... previous to examination, a process which will be found essential in such genera as Peziza, Sphaeria, etc. For moulds, which must be examined as opaque objects, if all their beauties and peculiarities are to be made out, a half-inch objective is recommended, with the nozzle bevelled as much to a point as possible, so ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... the nozzle of the atomizer before using. It should be cleaned after each use and boiled, if another patient is to use it. Always boil the nozzle and clean out the bottle when the atomizer is to be put away. Keep it in a box where dust ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... If I was well and cheerful they seldom troubled me; but when sick or depressed they were sure to obtrude their hateful presence upon me. These were a sort of heavy clouds floating about overhead, of a black color, spotted with brown, in the shape of a very flaring inverted tunnel without a nozzle, and from ten to thirty or forty feet in diameter. They floated from place to place in great numbers, and in all directions, with a strong and steady progress, but with a tremulous, quivering, internal motion that agitated them ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe


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