a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
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informal terms for the nose
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beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
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Snout \Snout\, v. t. To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Snout \Snout\ (snout), n. [OE. snoute, probably of Scand, or Low German origin; cf. LG. snute, D. snuit, G. schnauze, Sw. snut, snyte, Dan. snude, Icel. sn?ta to blow the nose; probably akin to E. snuff, v.t. Cf. {Snite}, {Snot}, {Snuff}.] 1. The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
2. The nose of a man; -- in contempt. --Hudibras.
3. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
4. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also {rostrum}. (b) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
{Snout beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any one of many species of beetles having an elongated snout and belonging to the tribe Rhynchophora; a weevil.
{Snout moth} (Zo["o]l.), any pyralid moth. See {Pyralid}.
The missing whale got its name because skin on its snout had been rubbed down to the bone by the rough ice surrounding a breathing hole that kept the mammals alive.
One was about the size as the surviving whales and had numerous wounds on its snout similar to those the trapped whales suffered as they nosed up through their ice-clogged breathing holes.
The black rhinocerous has one large horn on its snout, with a smaller one behind it.
Once located, the fun began. The skill was to land the worms a foot or so beyond the snout, to see the bait on the gravel, and to wait for the savour to activate the eel's foraging instincts.
The plastic-bodied vehicles sport a snout that would have made Cyrano de Bergerac jealous.
His black-bristled snout looks smashed in. But he is housebroken.
Illinois' new official fossil, known formally as the Tullimonstrum gregarium, is about a foot long, has a snout like an elephant's and is 300 million years old.
During a visit, 4-month-old Sparky trundled around the living room and grunted softly before hopping on the couch to snuggle up. He weighs about 15 pounds and feels like a bristly, wiggly football with a warm, rubbery snout.
I knew because by that time I was down near the snout of the glacier trying to take a mineral bath in a hot spring, but the spring was under 9ft of cold grey water surging angrily towards China.
Hecht gave the pig a peck on the snout at a discount store as shoppers looked on, claiming his prize in a contest organized by the American Diabetes Association chapter in Effingham.
David Weishampel studied the unexplained hollow crest that topped the heads of some dinosaur species and concluded that it provided an amplification tunnel between vocal box and snout.
You can see its snout," says Ms. Nesbitt excitedly.
The alligator was found Saturday near Eagle Creek Reservoir dam by children who saw its snout.