nassa

Lat.= a basket with a narrow neck, for catching fish.] Zool.: A genus of Buccinide (q. v.). The shell resembles that of Buccinum, but is smaller. The 2814 5 (?);" Prof. Flower reduces them to two, Nasua naric a , from Mexico and Central America, and N. rufa , of South America, from Surinam to Paraguay. 2. Palæont.: Two species from the bone-caves of Brazil. nā-sŭs, s . [Lat.=a nose.] [CLYPEUS, s . 2.] *nā-sute, a. [Lat. nasutus =having a large nose, keen-scented critical; nas us =a nose.] 1. Having a quick or keen smell or scent; keen scented. "They are commonly discovered by a nasute swine purposely brought up." -Evelyn : Acetaria , § 39. 2. Critical, nice, censorious, particular; nice in discernment. "The nasuter critics of their age scent something of pride in the ecclesiastics."-Gauden: Hi eras pistes, p. 303. *nā-sute-ne , s. [Eng. nasute; -ne .] The quality of being nasute; quickne or keenne of scent; nice discernment. "All which to any man that has but a moderate nasute. ne cannot but import."-H. More: Godline , bk. viii., ch. ii., § 2. nā-tal, *nā-tall, a. & s. [Fr. natal, from Lat. natal is =natal, presiding over birth, from nat us, natale.] having the columellar lip expanded and callous, with a tooth near the anterior canal. Na a reticu lat a is common on the North Atlantic shore of Europe at low water. Known species 210, extend ing from low water to a depth of fifty fathoms, World-wide in distribution. 2. Palæont.: From the Eocene onward. năs-sā-vi-a, năs-sâu-vi-a, s. [Named after Prince John Maurice of Na au-Siegen.] Bot.: A genus of Na aviem (q. v.).