Noun: neb
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like neb
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Old English Nouns '
nebb', Danish Nouns '
næb', German Nouns '
Schnabel', Old Norse Nouns '
nef', Swedish Nouns '
näbb'.
Verbs referencing "neb"
English Nouns
snub, Icelandic Nouns
nef.