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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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— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith

... well-regulated world it could not be. Yet Hazen Kinch did live; he had grown—in his small way—great; and by our lights he had prospered. Therefore I watched him. There was about the man the fascination which clothes a tight-rope walker above Niagara; an aeronaut in the midst of the nose dive. The spectator stares with half-caught breath, afraid to see and afraid to miss seeing the ultimate catastrophe. Sometimes I wondered whether Hazen Kinch suspected this attitude on my part. It was not impossible. There was a cynical ...

— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

... myself, the ideas of those particular things I have perceived, and of variously compounding and dividing them. I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by itself abstracted or separated from the rest of the body. But, then, whatever hand or eye I imagine, it must have some particular shape and colour. Likewise the idea of a man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

... name—you?" Mr. Pike barked at the first of the trio, evidently a hybrid Irish-Jew. Jewish his nose unmistakably was. Equally unmistakable was the Irish of his eyes, and jaw, and ...

— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

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