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AQUILINE

Volume 2 · 57 words · 1815 Edition

something belonging to or resembling an eagle: Thus an aquiline nose is one bent somewhat like an eagle's beak.

Aquilō, is used by Vitruvius for the north-east wind; or that which blows at 45° from the north toward the east point of the horizon.—The poets gave the name aquilo to all stormy winds dreaded by the mariner.