ˈnose-piece
Also nose piece.
[f. nose n.]
1. a. A part of a helmet or turban serving as a guard for the nose; a nasal.
| 1611 Cotgr., Nazal, the nose-peece of a helmet; the part thereof which couereth the nose. 1800 Asiat. Ann. Reg. 344/2 The nose-piece of the turban has several Arabic inscriptions. 1865 Kingsley Herew. I. x. 226 The small space on either cheek which was left bare between the nose-piece and the chain-mail. |
b. A nose-band for a horse; also, a similar part of a dog's muzzle.
| 1865 Routledge's Mag. for Boys Feb. 111 However you may fancy the appearance of a nose-piece.., never use a headstall or Gaveston martingale. 1893 K. A. Sanborn S. California 178 The headstall is covered with fluted silver, with large engraved silver rosettes at the sides,..with an elaborate nose-piece with silver engraving. 1899 Daily News 16 Dec. 6/3 He took the nose-piece between his teeth and pulled manfully. |
c. A piece of wood inserted to form the nose of a stuffed animal.
| 1894 Outing XXIII. 408/2 Make a nose-piece of pine or soft wood. Drive it up into the skull and tack it there. |
2. a. (See quot.)
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Nose-piece, the nozzle of a hose or pipe. |
b. Optics. The part of a microscope to which the objective (or object-glass) is attached.
| 1867 Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 71 Mr. Brooke's double nose-piece, or Baker's treble, is a useful piece of mechanism. 1899 tr. Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. (ed. 4) x. 436 The tube of the microscope is provided with a ‘revolver’ or ‘nose-piece’, to which lenses of different magnifying powers are fixed. |
3. a. Aeronaut. (See quot.)
| 1918 W. E. Dommett Dict. Aircraft 32 Nose piece, conical metal piece attached to the propeller boss, its contour being continuous with the engine cowling. |
† b. Astronautics. = nose cone. Obs.
| 1946 H. Harper Dawn of Space Age iii. viii. 113 During the initial thrusting period, while the space-vessel is ascending from the earth, the heat resisting carapace—or nose-piece..will obscure any view forward. |