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Nas (näz). [For ne was.] Was not.
[Obs.] Chaucer.

Nas. [Contr. fr. ne has.] Has not.
[Obs.] Spenser.

Na"sal (nā"zal), a. [F.,
from L. nasus the nose. See Nose.] 1.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nose.

2. (Phon.) Having a quality imparted
by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft
palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice
thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the
consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to
Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance
in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal
utterance.

Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the
skull, in front of the frontals. -- Nasal
index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the
transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter
distance is taken as the standard, equal to 100.


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