Naris, huies naris, f. g. Virg.The nostrell.Narium tædia & graueolentiam emendat succus hedere. Pli. The stincking of the nose. Acres nares. Lucr. Acutæ nares. Hor. A nose of quicke sent.Aduncæ. natis spiramina. Lucan. Balba de nare locutus. Pers. Caua naris. Ouid.Compressæ nares. Lucr. Geminæ nares. Vir. Obesæ naris iuuenis. Horat. A yong man of a grosse or dull iudgement.Patulis captauit naribus auras. Vir. Hee vented with his nose.Pilosæ nares. luue. Remissæ nares fronte. Oui. Resimæ patulæq, nares.Ouid.Sagaci nare sentiri aliquid. Luc. Duickly to perceiue a thing.Truncæ nares inhonesto vulnere. Vir. Dnes nose to hys shame cut off. Tumidæ nares. Val. Flac. Admouere aliquid ad nares.Cic.To put to the nose.Corrugare nares. Hor. To wrinckle the nose.Ducere naribus succÛ. Ci. To draw vp a inice into his nose.Vncis naribus indulgere. Pers. To mocke or scorne: to scoffe at.Infundere in naribus. Col. To poure into.Infundere per nares. Colum. Lumen extinctÛ offendit nares nidore. Lucr. A candle newly put out, annoyeth the nose, with an yll sanout.Patent nares.Cic. Auras reducere naribus. Lucr. Tauri spirantes naribus ignem.Virg.
No, nas, nare. To swimme.Nare contra aquam. Plin. Nare etiam aues aquatiles dicuntur.Cic.Carinæ nant freto.Ouid.Ships flitte in the sea.Linter nat liquida aqua. Tibul. Sine cortice nare. Hor. To swimme by himselfe without aide.Nat lupus inter oues.Ouid. Ars nandi. Ouid.Tu viribus vtere nando.Ouid.
nāris, is, f. [for nasis, from root na-; Sanscr. nārā, water; nāsā, nose; kindred to nasus; cf.: no, nāre], a nostril, usually in plur., nāres, ĭum, f., the nostrils, the nose.I.Lit.(a). In sing. (poet. and in postclass. prose): et lati rictūs et panda loquenti Naris erat, Ov. M. 3, 675; 6, 141; 12, 253; id. A. A. 1, 520; Pers. 1, 33; Grat. Cyn. 172; Macer. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.; App. M. 8, p. 213; Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 13.—(b). In plur.: nares, eo, quod omnis odor ad supera fertur, recte sursum sunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141: nares contractiores habent introitus, id. ib. 2, 57, 145: fasciculum ad nares admovere, id. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: mediis in naribus ingens gibbus, Juv. 6, 108: patulis captavit naribus auras, Verg. G. 1, 376.—B.The nose, as an organ expressive of sagacity, and also of scorn and anger: naribus ducere tura,
to smell
, Hor. C. 4, 1, 21: naribus labrisque non fere quicquam decenter ostendimus, tametsi derisus iis, contemptus, fastidium significari solet, nam et corrugare nares, ut Horatius ait ... indecorum est, etc., to turn up the nose, to sneer, Quint. 11, 3, 80: ne sordida mappa Corruget nares,
cause you to turn up your nose
, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 22: omnis copia narium,
sweet-smelling flowers
, id. C. 2, 15, 6: de nare loqui,
to speak through the nose
, Pers. 1, 33: Aesopus naris emunctae senex, of a clean nose, i. e. of sharp perception, of fine powers of observation, Phaedr. 3, 3, 14; so, (Lucilius) emunctae naris, Hor. S. 1, 4, 8: acutae nares, id. ib. 1, 3, 30; and on the contrary: homo naris obesae,
of a dull nose
, id. Epod. 12, 3: naribus uti, to turn up the nose, i. e. to banter, ridicule, id. Ep. 1, 19, 45; cf.: rides et nimis uncis naribus indulges, Pers. 1, 41.—Of anger: Calpurni saevam legem Pisoni' reprendi, Eduxique animam in prioribu' naribus, Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 32 (Sat. 20, 4): in naribus primoribus vix pertuli, Afran. ib. 33 (Com. Rel. v. 384 Rib.).—II.Transf., an opening, orifice, vent, air-hole, of a canal, etc.: inter duos parietes canalis ducatur, habens nares ad locum patentem, Vitr. 7, 4; 7, 10; Vop. Prob. 21; Pall. 9, 9.