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Webster 1913 Edition

(?; 277)

Adj.

[L.

aquilinus

, fr.

aquila

eagle: cf. F.

aquilin

. See

. ]

Belonging to or like an eagle.

Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; – applied particularly to the nose

Terribly arched and

aquiline

his nose.

Cowper.

Adj.

[L. aquilinus. See aquilla.]

Belonging to the eagle.

Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle.