Nose
[nəʊz] or [noz]
Definition
(noun.) a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); 'the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry'.
(noun.) the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; 'he ducked under the nose of the gun'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a natural skill; 'he has a nose for good deals'.
(noun.) the sense of smell (especially in animals); 'the hound has a good nose'.
(noun.) a symbol of inquisitiveness; 'keep your nose out of it'.
(noun.) a small distance; 'my horse lost the race by a nose'.
(verb.) defeat by a narrow margin.
(verb.) push or move with the nose.
(verb.) advance the forward part of with caution; 'She nosed the car into the left lane'.
Editor: Mervin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The power of smelling; hence, scent.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
(v. t.) To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
(v. t.) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer.
(v. i.) To smell; to sniff; to scent.
(v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.
Edited by Jonathan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Snout, nozzle.
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Definition
n. the organ of smell: the power of smelling: sagacity: the projecting part of anything resembling a nose as the spout of a kettle &c.: a drip a downward projection from a cornice: (slang) an informer.—v.t. to smell: to oppose rudely face to face: to sound through the nose.—ns. Nose′bag a bag for a horse's nose containing oats &c.; Nose′-band the part of the bridle coming over the nose attached to the cheek-straps.—adjs. Nosed having a nose—used in composition as bottle-nosed long-nosed &c.; Nose′-led led by the nose ruled and befooled completely; Nose′less without a nose.—ns. Nose′-leaf a membranous appendage on the snouts of phyllostomine and rhinolophine bats forming a highly sensitive tactile organ; Nose′-of-wax an over-pliable person or thing; Nose′-piece the outer end or point of a pipe bellows &c.: the extremity of the tube of a microscope to which the objective is attached: a nose-band: the nasal in armour; Nose′-ring an ornament worn in the septum of the nose or in either of its wings; Nos′ing the projecting rounded edge of the step of a stair or of a moulding.—Aquiline nose a prominent nose convex in profile; Bottle nose a name given to certain species of cetaceans: an eruption on the nose such as is produced by intemperate drinking; Pug nose a short turned-up nose; Roman nose an aquiline nose.—Hold Keep or Put one's nose to the grindstone (see Grindstone); Lead by the nose to cause to follow blindly; Put one's nose out of joint to bring down one's pride or sense of importance: to push out of favour; Thrust one's nose into to meddle officiously with anything; Turn up one's nose (at) to express contempt for a person or thing.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see your own nose, indicates force of character, and consciousness of your ability to accomplish whatever enterprise you may choose to undertake. If your nose looks smaller than natural, there will be failure in your affairs. Hair growing on your nose, indicates extraordinary undertakings, and that they will be carried through by sheer force of character, or will. A bleeding nose, is prophetic of disaster, whatever the calling of the dreamer may be.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A prominent member of the face family, usually a Greek or Roman, who owns the shortest bridge in the world. He is often stuck up in company, but frequently blows himself when he has his grippe. Principal occupations, sniffling, snivelling, sneezing, snorting and scenting, intruding in the neighbors' affairs, stuffing himself without permission and bleeding for others.
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Examples
- It's up my nose, and down my throat, and in my wind-pipe. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He always used to say 'twas his nose bleedn, till he must have pomped all the blood out of 'um. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, to turn up her nose at you! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He laughed at Mistress Affery's start and cry; and as he laughed, his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There was another stretcher by the side with a man on it whose nose I could see, waxy-looking, out of the bandages. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The Portsmouth girls turn up their noses at anybody who has not a commission. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Most of the native peoples of Africa south of the Sahara, but not all, have black or blackish skins, flat noses, thick lips, and frizzy hair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This here red-nosed man, Sammy, wisits your mother-in-law vith a kindness and constancy I never see equalled. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The red-nosed man did as he was desired, and instantly commenced on the toast with fierce voracity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I say to myself, if I meet him a second time in the same morning, now I think of it, that long-nosed tall man is Worcester. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Your mother-in-law, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, 'and the red-nosed man, my boy; and the red-nosed man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Red-nosed chap? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A dog was nosing at one of the cans. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They came quite close to me, rubbing their muzzles against my body and nosing for the bits of food it was always my practice to reward them with. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Two boats paddled near, their lanterns swinging ineffectually, the boats nosing round. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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