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Meaning of மூக்கு in English

  • Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
  • Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
  • The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.
  • The power of smelling; hence, scent.
  • A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle.
  • To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
  • To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
  • To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer.
  • To smell; to sniff; to scent.
  • To pry officiously into what does not concern one.
  • of Nose
  • Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chieflay used in composition; as, pug-nosed.
  • That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.
  • To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
  • To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
  • To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
  • To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
  • To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
  • To loiter; to idle.
  • To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
  • To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  • To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
  • To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
  • To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  • To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
  • That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
  • A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
  • A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

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