noun. The part of the human face or the forward part of the head of other vertebrates that contains the nostrils and organs of smell and forms the beginning of the respiratory tract.

noun. The sense of smell.

noun. The ability to detect, sense, or discover as if by smell.

noun. The characteristic smell of a wine or liqueur; bouquet.

noun. The nose considered as a symbol of prying.

noun. Something, such as the forward end of an aircraft, rocket, or submarine, that resembles a nose in shape or position.

noun. A very short distance or narrow margin.

intransitive verb. To find out by or as if by smell.

intransitive verb. To touch with the nose; nuzzle.

intransitive verb. To move, push, or make with or as if with the nose.

intransitive verb. To advance the forward part of cautiously.

intransitive verb. To smell or sniff.

intransitive verb. To search or inquire meddlesomely; snoop or pry.

intransitive verb. To advance with caution.

phrasal verb. To defeat by a narrow margin.

idiom. (down (one's) nose) With disapproval, contempt, or arrogance.

idiom. (on the nose) Exactly; precisely.

idiom. (under (someone's) nose) In plain view.

noun. A Middle English form of noise.

In forestry, to round off the end of (a log) in order to make it drag or slip more easily. Also called snipe.

noun. undefined

noun. In golf, the extreme end of a club opposite the neck or heel.

To smell; scent.

To face; oppose to the face.

To utter in a nasal manner; twang through the nose.

To touch, feel, or examine with the nose; toss or rub with the nose.

To smell; sniff.

To pry curiously or in a meddlesome way.

In coal-mining. See the quotation.

noun. The special organ of the sense of smell, formed by modifications of certain bones and fleshy parts of the face, its cavities, or fossæ, freely communicable with the cavities of the mouth and lungs, and hence also concerned in respiration, the utterance of words or vocal sounds, and taste.

noun. Hence The sense of smell; the faculty of smelling, or the exercise of that faculty; scent; olfaction.

noun. Something supposed to resemble a nose.

noun. An informer.

intransitive verb. To push or move with the nose or front forward.

transitive verb. To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.

transitive verb. To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.

transitive verb. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.

transitive verb. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet.

transitive verb. To furnish with a nose.

transitive verb. To examine with the nose or sense of smell.

transitive verb. To make by advancing the nose or front end;

transitive verb. to beat by (the length of) a nose.

noun. 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.

noun. The power of smelling; hence, scent.

noun. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout

noun. a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end.

noun. a frontal hammer.

noun. 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.

noun. a fox wedge.

noun. a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form.

"I stuck my nose all the way down in there, and there was nothing other than *crinkled nose*."

aquiline nose  as plain as the nose on one's face  bottle nose  bridge of the nose  bull nose  

brown-nose  nosey  

advance  bring forward  caress  defeat  fondle  

Bose  Brose  Goes  Joes  Jos  

bed  belly  bow  breast  cheek  

Adamite  Paul Pry  Paul-Pry  antlia  aptness  

nose around  nostril  olfactory  

nosed  noses  nosing