nose Copy link Outline 1. nāsus (the entire organ; nares, the nostrils, infr.)2. nāris, is, f. (nostril • nose: 1. nāsus (the entire organ; nares, the nostrils, infr.): a crooked (mis-shapen) n., pravus n., Hor. A. P. 36: a turn-up n., n. aduncus, Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 18 (an expr. often used fig., naso suspendere adunco, with acc., to turn up one's n. at any one or anything, Hor. S. 1, 6, 5): a flat (snub) n., n. collisus, Sen. Ir. 3, 22, 4 (not nasus simus; for simus prop. = having a snub-nose, as epith. of a person): to have a n. (sense of smell), n. habere, Mart. 1, 41, 18. 2. nāris, is, f. (nostril: hence usu. pl.): to hold a bouquet to any one's n., fasciculum (alicui) ad nares admovere, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, fin.: a keen n., acutae n., Hor. S. 1, 3, 30: Hor. (N.B.--Nares is mostly used when the function of smell is directly indicated; nasus, to denote the feature of the face.) v. nostril. Phr.: having a large n., nasutus, Hor. S. 1, 2, 93; also, having a keen n., Phaedr. 4, 7, 1: to lead any one by the n. (fig.), aliquem ludificari, lactare; alicui os sublinere, v. fool (Phr.).