Nose \Nose\ (n[=o]z), n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase, OHG. nasa, Icel. n["o]s, Sw. n["a]sa, Dan. n["a]se, Lith. nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[=a]s[=a], n[=a]s. [root]261. Cf. {Nasal}, {Nasturtium}, {Naze}, {Nostril}, {Nozzle}.] 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}.
2. The power of smelling; hence, scent.
We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. --Collier.
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.
{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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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.
2. To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. --Tennyson.
A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority. --Burke.
3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] --Cowley.
4. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. To furnish with a nose; as, to nose a stair tread. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6. To examine with the nose or sense of smell. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
7. To make by advancing the nose or front end; as, the train nosed its way into the station; [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Nose \Nose\, v. i. To push or move with the nose or front forward. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
A train of cable cars came nosing along. --Hamlin Garland. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Nose \Nose\ (n[=o]z), v. i. 1. To smell; to sniff; to scent. --Audubon.
2. To pry officiously into what does not concern one; to {nose around}.
With his pugnacious ebullience, Gen. Schwarzkopf made us feel wonderful; he was a super-Rocky, a nose tackle with a great love of the game.
Market watchers said gold's nose dive was triggered by one huge sell order from Saudi Arabia.
"They've got two eyes and a nose and a mouth just like me. These boys have just gone wrong." _ Elizabeth Burke, 85, a resident of Agawam, Mass., speaking about jail inmates who plow and fertilize garden plots for senior citizens.
Unless you can come up with a better idea we shall all continue to, as you say, 'pay through the nose'. Ernest A Hilton, 237 Knightsbridge, London SW7 1DJ East Grinstead.
A motorist whose heart was apparently bigger than his nose rescued an injured skunk Saturday but could not find an animal hospital to help, police said.
She lost almost all her whiskers and the tips of her nose and ears and the pads of her paws were burned.
"It's a pity, isn't it?" said the 72-year-old governor. "Kanazawa is a place where people can live like human beings." Nakanishi says he uses his nose to measure the changes in his beloved city.
Blowing his nose, he adds, "Next year, I'll be playing in Portugal." Not surprisingly, Icelanders fare better.
Mr. Hoyle hams up both parts to the hilt, disappearing behind one side of a screen with his nose in the air and a crisp snap of the napkin over his forearm and reappearing on the other side with shuffle and a slump.
There are all sorts of things that are offensive, from picking your nose to God knows what." Police officer Marty Polk found the men holding hands in a parked car Sept. 27 in Eden Park.
Spence said he gave a razzing to nurses who constantly told him to "breathe through your nose now, and breathe deep."
A teenage girl with wide eyes and pierced nose was being led by one arm down to the holy lake.
The 75-year-old peer fell as he stepped down from a bench beside his lawyer's desk and suffered a graze on the head and a bloody nose.
The tile damage resulted when insulation hit the shuttle during liftoff after stripping away from both the external fuel tank and the nose cone of one of the solid fuel booster rockets, McCartney said.
THE FARMER'S gesture as he drew his hand up to his nose left little to the imagination.
At Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Solomon Snyder last summer identified a carrier protein that ferries odor molecules up the nose.
Gorayeb, who specializes in personal injury cases, said he suffered a broken nose and eye, neck and shoulder injuries.
If Mr. Reagan had protected his nose with a sunscreen lotion during his days as a lifeguard, he might not be having problems with skin cancer of the nose today.
If Mr. Reagan had protected his nose with a sunscreen lotion during his days as a lifeguard, he might not be having problems with skin cancer of the nose today.
Soldiers hacked open the nose section, lying on its side in a field, and removed the bodies of crew members on stretchers and under tarpaulins.
John Major: People were determined to give the government a bloody nose, and that in practice is what they did.
Shaw should have immediately pulled back on his control stick to rotate the nose up.
Millie's nose swelled up after the incident, but the swelling went down by evening and she required no treatment, Ms. Becker added.
"We can test our products only with the human nose," he says. "And even then, it's still very subjective." Ray Charles meet Charles Wadsworth, Charles Wadsworth meet Ray Charles.
Leukotrienes are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucous production in the nose.
When Mr. Green objected to one such talk by a young ranger recently, the two had a shouting match, nose to nose.
When Mr. Green objected to one such talk by a young ranger recently, the two had a shouting match, nose to nose.
They talk of fast-moving armored forces vying for position that gives them the "flank shot" that hits an enemy tank in its most vulnerable spot, anywhere but the heavily protected nose.
Mr. Freeman agreed to a plea based on his "Your Bunny has a good nose" conversation.
While awaiting sunset over the sea, they are entertained by offbeat performances, such as housecats jumping through flaming hoops or a man who balances a bicycle on his nose.