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Nose   /noʊz/   Listen
Nose

noun
1.
The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals.  Synonym: olfactory organ.
2.
A front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft).
3.
The front or forward projection of a tool or weapon.
4.
A small distance.
5.
A symbol of inquisitiveness.
6.
The sense of smell (especially in animals).
7.
A natural skill.
8.
A projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged.  Synonym: nozzle.
verb
(past & past part. nosed; pres. part. nosing)
1.
Search or inquire in a meddlesome way.  Synonyms: horn in, intrude, poke, pry.
2.
Advance the forward part of with caution.
3.
Catch the scent of; get wind of.  Synonyms: scent, wind.
4.
Push or move with the nose.
5.
Rub noses.  Synonym: nuzzle.
6.
Defeat by a narrow margin.



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"Nose" Quotes from Famous Books



... if we will give him time, he can make Pinto's eyes straighten out so's he'll look like a new rockin' horse Christmas mornin' at a church festerval. Incidentally he suggests that we get a tall leather blinder and run it down Pinto's nose, right between his eyes. ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough
... good German lesson. There was only one contretemps during the whole interview - the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God's creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn sticking out of his nose like a boltsprit. If there are many wood-worms in Germany, I shall come home. The most courageous men in the world must be entomologists. I had rather be ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... countenances, but the difference between these and the more aged of that sex bore strong testimony to the effects which a few years produce in this ungenial climate. Most of the party had sore eyes, all of them appeared of a plethoric habit of body; several were observed bleeding at the nose during their stay near the ship. The men's dresses consisted of a jacket of seal-skin, the trousers of bear-skin, and several had caps of the white fox-skin. The female dresses were made of the same materials but differently shaped, having a hood in which ...
— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin
... and, consequently, he had no means by which he could cut the line, nor could he unfasten it or even climb up—for he was hanging clear of the tree. Presently, however, he began to bleed from the nose and ears; and in his violent effort to struggle free, he noticed that he was swinging from side to side; then it dawned upon him that if he could only increase the radius of his swing he might manage to reach and seize ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
... talkin' to a lawyer," said the old man laughing. "Yes, I didn't think much how long he was at the time, I guess! He came in as handsome as ever you saw anything done — just slipped himself over the gunwale so — and duv under one of the th'arts, and druv his nose through the bottom ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner


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