Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aquiline"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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

2. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; --
applied particularly to the nose

Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. --Cowper.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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

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