neb
noun/nɛb/
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.
7 senses
1
Dialectal A bird's beak.
2
Obsolete A person's mouth.
3
Dialectal A person's nose.
4
Dialectal The peak of a flat cap.
5
Dialectal The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
6
Dialectal A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
- In Acorns the nebb dilating splitteth the two sides, which sometimes lye whole, when the Oak is sproated two handfuls.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 183:
7
Dialectal A nib, as of a pen.
- Derived terms
- finger neb, nebby, nebbie