a. Having a long nose: used spec. in the names of some animals.
1552. Huloet, Longe nosed, acronasus.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Narigudo, long nosed, Nasutus.
1680. Wood, Life, 14 June. The servitor is tall, long-nosed, flowing hair and slow speech.
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, III. vi. A little long-nosed thin man.
1802. Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), I. 508. The Long-nosed Tapir.
187[?]. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., I. 88. The Long-nosed Monkey.
1897. Outing (U.S.), XXIX. 327/1. Copious draughts of saki, which steamed in a long-nosed pot overlaid with dragons.
