Nose

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nose \Nose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nosed} (n[=o]zd); p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Nosing}.]
     1. To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
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     2. To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against;


        hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
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              Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. --Tennyson.
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              A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature
              . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its
              authority.                            --Burke.
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     3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal
        twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] --Cowley.
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     4. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet.
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     5. To furnish with a nose; as, to nose a stair tread.
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     6. To examine with the nose or sense of smell.
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     7. To make by advancing the nose or front end; as, the train
        nosed its way into the station;
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     8. (Racing Slang) to beat by (the length of) a nose. Hence,
        to defeat in a contest by a small margin; also used in the
        form {nose out}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nose \Nose\ (n[=o]z), n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase,
     OHG. nasa, Icel. n["o]s, Sw. n[aum]sa, Dan. n[aum]se, Lith.
     nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[=a]s[=a], n[=a]s.
     [root]261. Cf. {Nasal}, {Nasturtium}, {Naze}, {Nostril},
     {Nozzle}.]
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     1. (Anat.) 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}.
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     2. The power of smelling; hence, scent.
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              We are not offended with a dog for a better nose
              than his master.                      --Collier.
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     3. 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.
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     {Nose bit} (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having
        a cutting edge on one side of its boring end.
  
     {Nose hammer} (Mach.), a frontal hammer.
  
     {Nose hole} (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace,
        before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft
        at the beginning of the flattening process.
  
     {Nose key} (Carp.), a fox wedge.
  
     {Nose leaf} (Zool.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin
        on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in
        size and form.
  
     {Nose of wax}, (fig.), a person who is pliant and easily
        influenced. "A nose of wax to be turned every way."
        --Massinger
  
     {Nose piece}, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the
        end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is
        attached.
  
     {To hold one's nose to the grindstone}, {To put one's nose to
     the grindstone}, or {To bring one's nose to the grindstone}.
        See under {Grindstone}.
  
     {To lead by the nose}, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to
        follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a
        beast. --Shak.
  
     {To put one's nose out of joint}, to humiliate one's pride,
        esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another.
        [Slang]
  
     {To thrust one's nose into}, to meddle officiously in.
  
     {To wipe one's nose of}, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]
  
     {on the nose},
        (a) exactly, accurately.
        (b) (racing) to win, as opposed to {to place} or {to
            show}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nose \Nose\, v. i.
     To push or move with the nose or front forward.
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           A train of cable cars came nosing along. --Hamlin
                                                    Garland.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nose \Nose\ (n[=o]z), v. i.
     1. To smell; to sniff; to scent. --Audubon.
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     2. To pry officiously into what does not concern one; to
        {nose around}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nose
       n 1: the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract;
            the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals;
            "he has a cold in the nose" [syn: {olfactory organ}]
       2: a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of
          an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on
          reentry"
       3: the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he
          ducked under the nose of the gun"
       4: a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose"
       5: the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a
          good nose"
       6: a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals"
       7: a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged [syn: {nozzle}]
       v 1: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always
            nosing around the office" [syn: {pry}, {poke}]
       2: advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car
          into the left lane"
       3: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the
          drugs" [syn: {scent}, {wind}]
       4: push or move with the nose
       5: rub noses [syn: {nuzzle}]
       6: defeat by a narrow margin

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  154 Moby Thesaurus words for "nose":
     Adamite, Paul Pry, Paul-Pry, antlia, aptness, beak, beezer, being,
     bent, bib nozzle, bill, body, bow, bowsprit, breathe, breathe in,
     bugle, bump, busybody, butt-in, caress, cat, chap, character, conk,
     creature, customer, duck, earthling, faculty, feel up, fellow,
     figurehead, flair, follow, follow a clue, follow up, fondle,
     fool with, forecastle, foredeck, forepeak, genius, groundling, guy,
     hand, head, homo, human, human being, hunt down, individual,
     inhale, intermeddle, jib boom, joker, kibitz, kibitzer, knack,
     knead, life, living soul, man, massage, meddle, meddle with,
     meddler, mess with, monkey with, mortal, mouse, muffle, muzzle,
     nares, neb, nib, nose out, nostrils, nozzle, nuzzle, olfactories,
     olfactory area, olfactory cell, olfactory nerves, olfactory organ,
     olfactory pit, one, party, pecker, peek, peep, person, personage,
     personality, pet, poke, pragmatist, pressure nozzle, prier,
     proboscis, prore, prow, pry, quidnunc, rhinarium, rose, rosehead,
     rostrum, rub, rub against, rub noses, rubberneck, run down,
     run to earth, scent, schnozzle, shadow, shower head, single, smell,
     smell of, smell out, smeller, sniff, sniff out, snitch, snook,
     snoop, snoot, snout, snuff, snuffle, somebody, someone, soul,
     spray nozzle, sprinkler head, spy, stalk, stem, stroke, tail,
     talent, tamper with, tellurian, terran, trace, trace down, track,
     track down, trail, trunk, whiff, worldling
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  NOSE, n.  The extreme outpost of the face.  From the circumstance that
  great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the
  age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell.  It has been observed
  that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of
  others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that
  the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
  
          There's a man with a Nose,
          And wherever he goes
      The people run from him and shout:
          "No cotton have we
          For our ears if so be
      He blow that interminous snout!"
  
          So the lawyers applied
          For injunction.  "Denied,"
      Said the Judge:  "the defendant prefixion,
          Whate'er it portend,
          Appears to transcend
      The bounds of this court's jurisdiction."
                                                           Arpad Singiny