Word Meanings - PRAENARES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The anterior nares. See Nares. B. G. Wilder.

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• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• NARES
  The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
• WILDERNESS
  1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. 2. A disorderly or
• WILDER
  To bewilder; to perplex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant. (more info) bewildered, villa to bewilder; cf. AS. wildor a wild animal. See
• WILDERMENT
  The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment. And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death. Moore.
• ANTERIOR
  1. Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. Note: In comparative anatomy, anterior often signifies
• WILDERING
  A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.
• ANTERIORLY
  In an anterior manner; before.
• BEWILDER
  To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison. Syn. -- To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound;
• BEWILDERING
  Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.
• PRAENARES
  The anterior nares. See Nares. B. G. Wilder.
• CANARESE
  Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.
• TUBINARES
  A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
• BEWILDERMENT
  1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
• BEWILDERED
  Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.
• PALATONARES
  The posterior nares. See Nares.
• BEWILDEREDNESS
  The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.
• POSTNARES
  The posterior nares. See Nares.