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Neb

//nɛb// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of North Equatorial Band. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    Abbreviation of Nebraska. abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    Initialism of National Enterprise Board. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
  4. 4
    Initialism of New English Bible. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    A bird's beak. dialectal
  2. 2
    horny projecting mouth of a bird wordnet
  3. 3
    A person's mouth. obsolete
  4. 4
    a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose wordnet
  5. 5
    A person's nose. dialectal
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  1. 6
    The peak of a flat cap. dialectal
  2. 7
    The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish. dialectal
  3. 8
    A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection. dialectal

    "In Acorns the nebb dilating splitteth the two sides, which sometimes lye whole, when the Oak is sproated two handfuls."

  4. 9
    A nib, as of a pen. dialectal

Etymology

From Middle English neb, from Old English nebb (“beak, nose, face”), from Proto-Germanic *nabją (“beak, nose”). Cognate with Danish næb, Dutch neb, German Schnabel, Old Norse nef, Swedish näbb, Swedish regional näv.

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