a. [ad. L. aquilīnus, f. aquila eagle: see -INE. Cf. F. aquilin, 16th c.]
1. Of or belonging to an eagle.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., II. xvii. 155. The aquiline tribes, soaring in the air beyond human ken.
2. Eagle-like; esp. of the nose or features: Curved like an eagle’s beak, hooked.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 130. Whence the Epithite Grypus for an hooked or Aquiline nose.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 967. When mortals lived Of stronger wing, of aquiline ascent.
1783. Cowper, Task, III. 192. Terribly arch’d, and aquiline his nose.
1791. Burke, App. Old Whigs, Wks. VI. 263. A penetrating aquiline eye.
1855. Tennyson, Maud, I. II. 10. The least little delicate aquiline curve in a sensitive nose.
