sb. and a.
A. sb. One who has a flat nose.
16[?]. Old Round.
| Call Philip flat-nose; straight he frets thereat, | |
| And yet this Philip has a nose that’s flat. |
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 456. You look at me so wistfully, says the Flatnose, that I fancy Uranian Venus has send down one of her own Cupids to strike us with a mutual affection.
1875. Browning, Aristoph. Apol., 93.
| I and the Flat-nose, Sophroniskos’ son, | |
| Oft make a pair. |
B. adj. = FLAT-NOSED a.
1636. W. Durham, in Ann. Dubrensia (1877), 8.
| Whose beauty, should the Flat-nose Satyres spie | |
| They would not live, but languish, and so die. |
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 12. Cynoprosopi, or men having a forme or figure neare in resemblance to the head and shape of a Dogs Face, to wit, of those little pretty flat-nosed Dogs which Ladies keep for pleasure in their Chambers.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Flat-nose shell. A cylindrical tool with valve at bottom, for boring through soft clay.
