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ˈnose-piece
Also nose piece.
[f. nose n.]
1. a. A part of a helmet or turban serving as a guard for the nose; a nasal.
1611Cotgr., Nazal, the nose-peece of a helmet; the part thereof which couereth the nose. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg. 344/2 The nose-piece of the turban has several Arabic inscriptions. 1865Kingsley Herew. I. x. 226 The small space on either cheek which was left bare between the nose-piece and the chain-mail.
b. A nose-band for a horse; also, a similar part of a dog's muzzle.
1865Routledge's Mag. for Boys Feb. 111 However you may fancy the appearance of a nose-piece.., never use a headstall or Gaveston martingale. 1893K. A. Sanborn S. California 178 The headstall is covered with fluted silver, with large engraved silver rosettes at the sides,..with an elaborate nose-piece with silver engraving. 1899Daily News 16 Dec. 6/3 He took the nose-piece between his teeth and pulled manfully.
c. A piece of wood inserted to form the nose of a stuffed animal.
1894Outing XXIII. 408/2 Make a nose-piece of pine or soft wood. Drive it up into the skull and tack it there.
2. a. (See quot.)
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Nose-piece, the nozzle of a hose or pipe.
b. Optics. The part of a microscope to which the objective (or object-glass) is attached.
1867Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 71 Mr. Brooke's double nose-piece, or Baker's treble, is a useful piece of mechanism. 1899tr. Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. (ed. 4) x. 436 The tube of the microscope is provided with a ‘revolver’ or ‘nose-piece’, to which lenses of different magnifying powers are fixed.
3. a. Aeronaut. (See quot.)
1918W. E. Dommett Dict. Aircraft 32 Nose piece, conical metal piece attached to the propeller boss, its contour being continuous with the engine cowling.
†b. Astronautics. = nose cone. Obs.
1946H. Harper Dawn of Space Age iii. viii. 113 During the initial thrusting period, while the space-vessel is ascending from the earth, the heat resisting carapace—or nose-piece..will obscure any view forward. |