Crossword clues for aquiline
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aquiline \Aq"ui*line\ (?; 277), a. [L. aquilinus, fr. aquila eagle: cf. F. aquilin. See Eagle. ]
Belonging to or like an eagle.
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Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose
Terribly arched and aquiline his nose.
--Cowper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"curved like an eagle's beak," 1640s, originally in English in reference to long, hooked noses, from Latin aquilinus "of or like an eagle," from aquila "eagle," of uncertain origin, usually explained as "the dark bird;" compare aquilus "blackish, of the color of darkness."
Wiktionary
a. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles.
WordNet
adj. curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: hooked]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "aquiline".
Cullen is a short, stout man, very seedily habited, with a great rough head of hair, an aquiline nose, lungs of vast power.
The nose was both fleshy and aquiline and mediated well between the top and bottom halves of the face, but the mouth was a mismatch of left and right sides that left the lips peculiarly twisted.
Sighting them in turn, the newcomer reined in behind a fallen log and raised a hand in greeting as they came into hailing distance, then pulled back his hood to reveal a backswept shock of silver hair above sparkling gray eyes, an aquiline nose, and a full silver beard.
Although the face was somewhat obscured by the wide brim of a hat, Canfield noticed that the features were sharp, aquiline, clean-cut.
Signy watched and gnawed her lip nervously, glanced aside as a civ came up to her, youngish, darkly aquiline, bearing a tablet and looking like business in his neat blue suit.
Where now, as he turns away, hiding the warm loaf under his grimy suit, the sunlight off the water brightens his face and his identity fills itself in: the aquiline nose, the hawk-like expression, the softness appearing in the brown eyes.
Brown to veil, as far as he was able, the vivacity of his looks beneath an expression of open and unheeding good-nature, an expression strangely enough contrasting with the closeness and sagacity which Nature had indelibly stamped upon features pointed, aquiline, and impressed with a strong mixture of the Judaical physiognomy.
The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
The nose was fleshily aquiline between high cheek-bones and cheeks that were more muscular than fat.
He was a fairhaired, handsome fellow, with sharp, eager eyes, with an aquiline nose and just that shape of mouth and chin which such men as Abel Wharton regarded as characteristic of good blood.
As Cleta dropped into the rapport, the Rim Room of the Transformation and the face of a elderly man with strong, aquiline features came sharply into focus.
Rocs were bred from condors ages ago on Old Earth -- but their broad twenty-meter wings, big braincases, and tall aquiline beaks gave them the look of eagles.
An aquiline nose blunted into bulbousness, flattened, then narrowed and turned up daintily at the end.
A high-bred face of masterful though not arrogant expression was adorned by a short iron-grey full beard, and an old-fashioned pince-nez shielded the full, dark eyes and surmounted an aquiline nose which gave a Moorish touch to a physiognomy otherwise dominantly Celtiberian.
He had a long pale narrow face, thin black hair parted in the middle and brushed almost straight back, rimless glasses, an aquiline nose and on the upper lip a thin black line that, on closer inspection, still looked like a thin black line, miniaturisation of the moustache brought to an almost impossible state of perfection.