▪ I. † nase, n. Obs.
Also 5 nace, nasse.
[OE. nasu = MDu. nase, OHG. nasa fem., nose (MHG. nase, nas, G. nase), ON. nǫs (:—*nasu) nostril (pl. nasar), related to Lith. nósis, OSl. nosŭ (Russ. nos), Skr. nas-, and with difference in vowel-grade to L. nāsus nose, nārēs nostrils, Skr. nāsā nose. The relationship to OE. nosu nose is obscure; see also nese.]
The nose.
| a 1000 Laws Ethelb. in Thorpe Laws I. 14 ᵹif nasu þyrel weorð. Ibid. 16 ᵹif man oðerne mid fyste in naso slæhþ. c 1050 Vocab. in Wr.-Wülcker 264 Columpna, eall seo nasu. Pirula, forewerd nasu. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 202 His nase of and his lippes bothe He kutte. c 1400 Destr. Troy 7031 The noble kyng in the nase hade an euyll wound. c 1407 Lydg. Reson & Sens. 3553 Huge boolys of metal, With flavme..Which yssed out at nasse and mouthe. c 1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. ii. 1321 To ȝeue mankynd bothe nase, eye & tothe. [1886 Rochdale Gloss., Nase (old), the nose.] |
▪ II. † nase, a. Obs. Cant.
[Of obscure etym. Cf. nazy.]
Drunken, intoxicated; intoxicating (liquor).
| a 1550 Hye Way to Spittel Hous in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 69 With bousy cove maimed nace. Ibid., For my watch it is nace gere. 1567 Harman Caveat (1869) 86 Now I tower that bene bouse makes nase nabes. |
▪ III. † nase, adv. Obs. rare.
[f. na adv.1 + -se, as in OE. nese no, ᵹese yes.]
Not, by no means.
| c 1315 Shoreham i. 1862 Ne forþe þe moder þet hyt beer, Ne woldest þou nase y-faȝe. Ibid. 1873, 1890. |
▪ IV. nase
variant of naze, headland.