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nosen.

Brit. /nəʊz/, U.S. /noʊz/
Forms: Old English–early Middle English nosu, Old English– nose (in compounds), Middle English noise, Middle English noose, Middle English noyse, Middle English–1500s noos, Middle English–1600s nos, Middle English–1600s nosse, 1500s noase, 1800s noshe (irregular); English regional (northern) 1700s noaze, 1800s noaz, 1800s noze, 1800s– noase, 1800s– nooas, 1800s– nooase, 1900s– nooaz; Scottish pre-1700 nois, pre-1700 noise, pre-1700 nos, pre-1700 noss, pre-1700 nosse, pre-1700 noys, pre-1700 noyse, pre-1700 1700s– nose.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian nose (West Frisian noas ), Middle Dutch nōse , nuese , neuse (Dutch neus ), Middle Low German (East Friesland) nōse , noese , probably < an ablaut variant (zero-grade) of the Germanic base of nase n. Compare nese n.The vocalism of Middle Dutch neuse , nuese (Dutch neus ), Middle Low German noese is problematic; it is unclear whether these forms belong here (for a parallel development of stem vowel compare Middle Dutch dōre , doere , duere (Dutch deur ) door n.), or whether they are reflexes of Middle Dutch nēse , Middle Low German nēse (see nese n.), with rounding of e, perhaps under the influence of preceding n.
I. Senses relating to the organ of smell.
1.
a. That part (usually more or less prominent) of the head or face in humans and other mammals which lies above the mouth and contains the nostrils, and functions as the organ of olfaction and an accessory organ of respiration; this part with the air passages from the nostrils to the pharynx. Also: the equivalent part in other animals.In Old English also in plural in sense ‘nostrils’.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun]
noseeOE
naseeOE
nebeOE
billa1000
nesec1175
grunyie?a1513
gnomon1582
nib1585
proboscis1631
handle to (also of, on) one's face1675
snot-gall1685
nozzle1689
bowsprit1690
smeller1699
snitch1699
trunk1699
vessel1813
index1817
conk1819
sneezer1820
scent box1826
snorter1829
snuff-box1829
bugle1847
beak1854
nasal1854
sniffer1858
boko1859
snoot1861
snorer1891
horn1893
spectacles-seat1895
razzo1899
beezer1915
schnozzle1926
schnozzola1929
schnozz1930
snozzle1930
honker1942
hooter1958
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xi. 63 Gif he..to micle nosu hæfde, oððe to lytle.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxvii. 503 Ic geslea ænne wriþan on his nosu & ænne bridel on his welerum.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) 1 (table of contents) Wið swyðlicne blodryne of nosum.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1014 Cnut..let þær up þa gislas..& cearf of heora handa & heora nosa.
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 17 Nim castorium oððer elleborum and wyrc to duste and do hyt innan þa nosan [L. naribus].
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 265 [The fox] feccheð..te gandre & te gos, bi ðe necke & bi ðe nos.
c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 7* M[an]. snyfterith and nose snyt.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 286 Satiri..han crokede noses [L. nares] and hornes in þe forhede.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 151 (MED) Þis herbe..clensyȝt þe nose fro alle fylthes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 1234 His lyppys round, his noys was squar and tret.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 228 (MED) Thay that haue the butte of the Noose sharpe, bene strongly angry.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 15 Fyll a fylberts shell full of it, and draw it so in through the nose.
1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde (Hunterian Club) 38 His nose on the sodaine bled, which made him coniecture it was some friend of his.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 39 The big round teares Cours'd one another downe his [sc. a stag's] innocent nose . View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 77 Great is the ornament that the face receiveth by the Nose.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 52 All the Figures that were carved upon her for ornament, had the noses cut off.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxxii. 150 Pressing up the ridge of his nose with his finger and thumb.
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iv. 103 The nose furnishes the principal expression of derision in the countenance.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 477 To enable you to distinguish the nose of insects..it is the terminal middle part that sometimes overhangs the upper lip.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud ii, in Maud & Other Poems 11 The least little delicate aquiline curve in a sensitive nose.
1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §182 Some animals have to dig with their noses.
1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 4 He pressed his hawk-like nose against the heavily-inked patent-specifications at the end.
1938 R. Narayan Dark Room vi. 104 She stood close to the mirror, with her nose almost touching the glass.
1970 G. Sorrentino Steelwork 68 A kind of bitched classic face, a clear line to the nose and delicate cheekbones.
1995 Denver Post 8 Oct. e8/5 The dilophosaurus..had a snout and could, possibly, wrinkle its nose.
b. An elephant's trunk. Now rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > parts of > trunk
snoutc1220
nosea1398
hand1572
trunk1589
promuscis1600
proboscis1607
trump1648
proboss1659
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 282 Þe elephant wiþ his foot and wiþ his nose [L. promuscida] þroweþ doun þe dragoun.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. xii. sig. Jiii When olyphantes do passe over any greate water,..parte come after, succourynge the weakest or leaste, with theyr longe noses.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 196 It will with the nose or trunke..turn aside whatsoeuer beast commeth in his way.
1685 S. Wesley Maggots 155 The Proboscis is the Trunk, or Nose of an Elephant.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xli. 110 He put in his Trunk at the Window, and blew his Nose on the Taylor with such a Force and Quantity of Water, that the poor Taylor and his Life-guard were blown off the Table.
1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 19 On the anterior part of the skull [of the elephant] there is also a similar cellular structure..which communicates with the nose.
1892 Amer. Naturalist 26 488 An elephant's nose is still a nose though it is prodigiously elongated, and serves as a tactile and prehensile organ.
1950 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 10 313 One person..might call ‘elephant’ any animal that draws water up its nose and squirts it into its mouth.
1970 T. Hughes Littleblood in Crow (1972) 94 Dancing with a gnat's feet With an elephant's nose with a crocodile's tail.
c. parson's-nose: see parson n. Compounds 2; recorder's nose: see recorder n.1 Compounds.
d. Originally U.S. The nose of a horse used as an indication of the smallest possible winning margin in a horse race (as an official designation in the United States, comparable to ‘short head’ in the United Kingdom). Also in extended use of dogs. by a nose, by a very narrow margin; (to bet (etc.)) on the nose and variants: to back a horse to win (as opposed to betting for a place, or betting each way). to push (also get) one's nose in front: to manage to get into the lead (in a race, contest, etc.).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > distance between two horses
horse-head1623
nose1851
neck1865
short head1883
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)] > type of betting
run or throw a levant1714
levant1797
to pound it1819
field1860
to go for the gloves1861
to buy money1906
plunge1939
to bet like the Watsons1949
(to bet (etc.)) on the nose1951
1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. II. xvii. 335 They ran a rather severe race, the majestic Pacific (a splendid bay) winning at last only by a nose.
1902 E. W. Wilcox How Salvator Won in Kingdom of Love 31 With knee, limb and hand, I lift my horse first by a nose past the stand.
1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England viii. 126 Bernardo..not only managed to hang on to the metaphorical coat-tails of his slashing young adversary, but even to push his nose in front on the last green.
1934 Down Beat Dec. 3/2 A blond fellow over that way hit one that paid $35 for $2, with $8 on the nose.
1939 Times 21 Aug. 4/1 In one instance there seemed to me to be doubt..whether one dog had just won by a nose.
1939 ‘N. West’ Day of Locust ii. 13 I'll give you a good one [sc. a horse to bet on] for the fifth at Caliente. You put a fiver on its nose and it'll get you twenty smackeroos.
1951 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xvi. 13 Bet on the nose.
1963 ‘J. Prescot’ Case for Hearing iv. 71 Every afternoon that lad of mine is in the betting shop slapping as much as fifty quid a time on the nose.
1973 Times 12 Apr. 12/6 Ladbroke..assured me that I could lay £30,000 on the nose if I wished.
1986 Marketing 11 Sept. 16/2 Cadbury's Chocolate Break is certainly a nose ahead of Carnation and also nearly twice the size of Instant Ovaltine.
1994 Rolling Stone 27 Jan. 40/1 And Ten..lost by a nose to U2's Eurocentric industrial-dance project Zooropa.
†e. The bridge of a pair of spectacles. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > other parts of spectacles
bow1711
frame1729
rims1766
earpiece1824
side glass1830
nosepiece1866
temple1877
nose1895
nose-bridge1923
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Nose, the curved band or wire connecting the glasses of a pair of spectacles or eye-glasses.
2.
a. The nose as the organ of smell. Also figurative.In Old English also in plural in sense ‘nostrils’.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > olfactory organ > [noun]
noseeOE
sensor1595
olfact1657
olfactory1797
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lvi. 433 Mid ðæm nosum we tosceadað & tocnawað gode stencas & yfele.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 43v Þe nose is þe Instrument of smellinge.
a1425 (a1400) Titus & Vespasian 1527 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1904) 112 29/2 (MED) Fyue wyttes he has man yȝyue..Wiþ nose to smelle swete fro sowre.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4380 Quare-of þe breth as of bawme blawis in oure noose.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxiiii Was dulcet & swete to ye mouth..& sauoured wele to the nose.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome B ij I am sure their noses can abide no iest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. ii. 10 Par. Nay you neede not to stop your nose sir... Clo. Indeed sir, if your Metaphor stinke, I will stop my nose. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 124 Nor rost red Crabs t' offend the niceness of their Nose . View more context for this quotation
1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 324 His snuffling Nose, his active Tail Attest his Joy.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 259 That no rude savour maritime invade The nose of nice nobility.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 525 [Paraphrasing Johnson:] He entered upon a..discussion of the difference between intuition and sagacity;..one he observed, was the eye of the mind, the other the nose of the mind.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. vii. 102 Any man possessing a human heart would relent when that delicious perfume met his nose.
1954 P. Frankau Wreath for Enemy ii. ii. 162 Her scent was in my nose; the scent that she never changed.
1986 J. Cox Spirit of Gardening 163 Heat and sun vaporize the essential oils..creating a scent that hangs at nose level above the plants in the heavy, still air.
b. The sense of smell; a faculty for discriminating scents, esp. in relation to the ability to track by scent. Also figurative: esp. a talent or knack for detecting or finding something.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > sense of smell
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smellc1200
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odoura1450
scent1488
odorate1614
parosmis1817
parosmia1884
osmatism1903
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 92 Wiȝtly þe werwolf þan went bi nose euene to þe herdes house.
a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 124 (MED) Bi þin eren, not bot noise..By þin nose, not bot eiþer stynche or sauour, & by þi taast, not bot eiþer soure or swete.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Qiii He was a gentilman of a long nose... Thys Shryue was a couetuouse man, a worldelye man.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie S 477 He hath a very good nose: or he can smell very quickly.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Nez A dog of a deepe nose, or good sent.
1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) iv. 131 All tho' the Puppies have no Noses They'l with them Hunt thro' Woods and Closes.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. i. 268 You shall often see among the Dogs a loud Babler, with a bad Nose, lead the unskilful part of the Pack.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 28/1 The hunting power of the spaniel, its delicacy of nose [etc.].
1875 W. Hyde in C. F. Wingate Views & Interviews on Journalism 196 The ‘nose for news’, by which is meant unwearying alertness and insatiable hunger for something ‘ahead of the other papers’.
1930 Earl Bathurst in C. Frederick et al. Foxhunting xxiv. 242 The hounds still keep up their reputation of having great hunting qualities, and their blood is in great request in other kennels for the improvement of nose and cry.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags ii. 118 One does not work in the East without acquiring a nose for a deal.
1972 ‘J. Cassells’ Profit for Picaroon v. 36 He was a damned good reporter..and he had a nose for a story.
1989 M. Dorris Broken Cord i. 7 The report..emphasized her positive assessment of my ability..rather than my bad nose for stable marriages.
c. Smell, odour; perfume; spec. the bouquet of a wine.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun]
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breathOE
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irea1300
weffea1300
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odour?c1335
incensea1340
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flavourc1400
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air?a1439
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tang1858
nose1894
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. viii. 113 The room was like a barn after a bad cold harvest, with a musty nose to it.
1899 H. R. Haggard Farmer's Year 8 July 265 Otherwise it [sc. the hay] would lack ‘nose’ and flavour.
1936 F. C. Lloyd Art & Technique Wine xv. 146 The bouquet, or ‘nose’ to use a more technical word, is very important and serves to reveal the characteristics of wines to a connoisseur.
1952 A. Lichine Wines of France x. 107 Its tremendous nose—bouquet is too delicate a word—makes it [sc. Chambertin] a veritable Cyrano.
1999 A. Lucero Great Margarita Bk. iv. 85 The great thing about good superpremium agave tequila is that it generally has a good nose.
3. The nose as an organ involved in or affecting speech. Chiefly in to speak through (also †in) the (or one's) nose: to speak in a nasal tone.
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the world > life > the body > speech organs > types of speech organ > [noun] > nose
nosec1387
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak nasally
to speak through (also in) the (or one's) nose1598
twang1615
snafflea1635
snuffle1634
snoach1844
nasillate1859
snifter1880
c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 123 Ful wel she soong the seruyce dyuyne Entuned in hir nose ful semely.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 231 He speketh thurgh the nose.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 26 (MED) A man spekiþ in his nose whanne þese holis ben sumwhat stoppid.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 2 They sounde hym..a lyttell in the noose.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 14 Sing a note..sometime through: nose . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. i. 4 Ha your instruments bin at Naples, that they speake i'the nose thus? View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. i They did but lisp, or worse, speak through the Nose.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. v. 14 The governor I make choice of shall neither..speak through his nose, or pick it, or blow it with his fingers.
1819 S. Ferrier Marriage II. xv. 202 A scowling, black-browed, hard-favoured creature,..that twirls its thumbs, and turns up its eyes, and speaks through its nose.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xxii. 233 He..pays as he speaks..—through the nose.
1869 P. Fitzgerald Fatal Zero I. ix. 91 The lady added, very nasally, that what annoyed her was the English saying that the Americans talked through their noses.
1909 A. Bierce In Defense in Coll. Wks. 33 It's all very well, sir, your scorn to parade Of the high nasal twang of the Yankee maid, But, ah, to my lord when he dares to propose No sound is so sweet as that ‘Yes’ from the nose.
1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 76 She spoke through the nose in a way which used to be glamorous—the Jean Arthur style.
4. slang. A spy or informer, esp. for the police.
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society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer
setter1630
nose1789
mouchard1802
rat1818
stool-pigeon1830
knark1851
police informer1851
nark1859
telegraph1864
copper1885
sarbut1897
Noah's Ark1898
stool1906
snout1910
finger1914
policeman1923
stoolie1924
shelf1926
grass1929
grasshopper1937
grasser1950
stukach1969
supergrass1975
1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 167 Nose. Snitch.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 192 Nose, a thief who becomes an evidence against his accomplices;..also a spy or informer of any description.
1830 Boston Gaz. 26 Oct. 1 The first issue of forged notes, it is stated by a nose (an informer), amounted to 500.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 88 The co-operation of the..policeman with female ‘pals’ and ‘noses’.
1928 E. Wallace Gunner xviii. 145 He was just a little thief and a nose.
1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. 31 He was a nark, nose, snout, grass, squeaker, or whatever coarse word is current for it.
1974 R. Edwards Dixon of Dock Green 7 He knew that CID men are allowed to drink on duty because much of their time is spent with ‘noses’ or informants.
5. A person who creates, identifies, or judges fragrances, esp. in the perfume industry.
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1959 Listener 25 June 1098/2 The real personalities in Grasse are the men we refer to as ‘noses’; men who have spent their lives in the industry smelling different odours.
1985 Harrods Mag. Christmas 8/1 Even expert ‘noses’ who can identify the ingredients of a perfume cannot predict the final result on the woman who wears it.
2001 Daily Tel. 27 Sept. 24/1 The perfume is a fresh, thoroughly modern interpretation of the heady Coco, which was created in 1984 by Chanel's resident nose Jacques Polge.
6. colloquial. A look, esp. out of curiosity. Frequently with around. Cf. nose v.1 3c.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun]
eie wurpc950
laitc1175
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sightc1275
insighta1375
blushc1390
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eye-casta1669
twire1676
ken1736
Magdalene-look1752
glimmering1759
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deck1853
vision1855
pipe1865
skeg1876
dekko1894
screw1904
slant1911
gander1914
squiz1916
butcher's hook1934
butcher's1936
gawk1940
bo-peep1941
nose1976
1976 J. Morris Mad Tulloch i. vi. 41 I found the orders a coupla months ago—a quick nose around on the quiet—know what ah mean?
1986 in Amer. Speech (1988) 63 151 You're just upset because we didn't have a good nose at the new people.
1992 Face Apr. 7/4 While in custody, plod had a good nose through my bedroom.
2001 BBC Gardeners' World Feb. 5/4 ‘I simply can't resist having a nose around other people's gardens,’ she admits.
II. Extended uses.
7.
a. gen. A prominent or projecting part; the point or extremity of something.In quot. c1400: a projecting doorway.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part
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outstanding?c1425
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c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 451 (MED) Hit [sc. a bower of woodbine] watz..Happed vpon ayþer half, a hous as hit were, A nos on þe norþ syde, and nowhere non ellez.
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea i. iv. sig. B4v The Lode-stone that alwaies holdeth his nose to the North.
1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 48 The Nose of Small Letters project also 3 parts.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 239/2 Their Shooes do turn up at the Nose, after the manner of a hook.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 289/1 The Nose is either ends of the Shuttle, which are ever tipt with Iron.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Q j Bringing up the Earth upon the Nose or end of his Spade.
1829 Sporting Mag. 23 388 What we call a wheel-iron, placed, as usual, on the nose of an axle-tree.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xvi. 245 No one could resist her persuasive nods, or the fragrant invitation issuing from the nose of the coffee-pot.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Mar. 9/3 (advt.) 1,000 walking sticks. Rattan, bamboo, ash..; some with silver collars or noses.
1988 Garden News 3 Sept. 6/4 Plant the noses of the bulbs 3 in (7.5 cm) deep.
b. The prow of a ship or boat. In later use (also): the front end of an aircraft, motor vehicle, rocket, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > front > [noun] > projecting
nose1538
head1684
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun]
foreshipc1000
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bilynge?a1400
forestam?a1400
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prora1847
snout1853
forward1892
sharp end1948
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Coronis, the nose of a shippe.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. viii. 114 He..embarqued..great store of Shot and Engines.., planting them in the Noses of his Gallies.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1864) 53 One of the Gallies lost her Nose with a shot.
1749 Naval Chron. 3 206 The Ship rode with a whole cable before her nose.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxii. 277 The brig remains as she was tossed at our providential escape of last month, her nose burrowing in the snow.
1899 Royal Mag. Jan. 251/1 In the ‘nose’ of the torpedo.
1906 J. London White Fang iii. v. 159 The dogs at the ends of their ropes radiated fan-fashion from the nose of the sled, so that no dog trod in another's footsteps.
1914 War Illustr. 1 406 A British Army biplane that collapsed and fell with its nose in the earth.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 33 Always face the nose of the bomb. When I say ‘nose’ I mean the end which is away from the explosive charge.
1952 W. von Braun in R. Cornelius Across Space Frontier 35 Small solid-fuel rockets..mounted in the nose of the first stage, can be set off automatically by a proximity fuse.
1962 T. Masters Surfing made Easy 64 Nose, the front of the surfboard.
1987 C. Mungoshi Setting Sun Rolling World vii. 92 His father turned the car's nose back the way they had come.
†c. Zoology. A projecting part of a mollusc shell. Also: a small marginal plate on a turtle shell. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle > parts of
tortoiseshell1601
nose1681
back-plate1859
bekko1889
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > hard or protective covering > scale > large scale or bony plate > projecting part
nose1681
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 128 It is not properly the Nose or Beak of the Snail, but of its shell.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1953 The Nose lies in the midst of its hinge.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Noses, a name given to some of the smaller shell plates from the edges of the carapace of the sea-tortoise.
d. The eye of an apple, gooseberry, etc. Cf. nose v.1 12. Now English regional.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > parts of > remains of calyx or eye
crown?a1475
eye1587
stool1672
nose1718
basin1909
1718 Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts 24 To preserve Green Jennitins. Cut out the Stalk and Nose, and put 'em in cold Water on a Coal-Fire 'till they peel.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Nose, the blossom on the ends of ripe gooseberries or currants.
1903 I. Wilkinson in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 300/1 Cut their nooazes and gooaks [sc. cores] out.
e. The rounded overhanging edge of a stair tread, window sill, etc.; = nosing n.2 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > parts of mouldings
mitre-bracket1725
nose1800
quirk1815
knee1823
keela1878
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > step > tread > edge of
nosing1773
nose1800
1800 M. Edgeworth White Pigeon in Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) V. 46 He broke off in the midst of a speech about the nose of the stairs.
1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 184 All cornices and mouldings, and all works where the running mould is used, are measured from the nose of the moulding to the wall.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 475/1 Draw lines, showing the face (or what the workmen call the nose) of the mullion.
1983 J. S. Foster Struct. & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. iii. 241/1 For most stairs..a minimum nose projection of 19mm is provided.
†f. An irregularity in the positioning of the pages in a book after binding (see quot.). Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > point where sheets unevenly bound
nose1835
1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia Techn. Terms 206 In glueing up a volume, if the workman has not been careful to make all the sheets occupy a right line at the head, it will present a point either at the beginning or end, which point is called a Nose.
g. Railways. A projecting part of an electric traction motor by which it is suspended from the framework of the bogie or vehicle. Cf. nose suspension n. at Compounds 2.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > parts of electric railway traction unit
guard-brush1888
nose suspension1894
nose1907
pantograph1907
dead man's handle1908
1907 H. F. Parshall & H. M. Hobart Electr. Railway Engin. x. 451 In the case of a heavy motor there is usually a nose in the frame casting which rests on a bar carried by springs on the transom.
1927 R. E. Dickinson Electr. Trains vi. 110 On the other side of the motor case a projecting ‘nose’ is cast and this nose is fixed on the bogie transom with a stiff spring above and below it.
1955 E. A. Binney Electr. Traction Engin. vii. 126 The nose end of the motor is resiliently supported on the bogie transom.
1985 H. I. Andrews Railway Traction xi. 252 Little shock is usually observed at the nose, which is flexibly supported.
h. Chiefly Mountaineering. A projecting or jutting mass of rock.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > terrain
mauvais pas1816
nose1934
wind-slab1936
letterbox1951
choss1963
traverse line1966
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Nose, a buttress of rock, usually overhanging.
1957 R. G. Collomb Dict. Mountaineering 113 Nose, a jutting nose of rock, broad and sometimes with an undercut base. It may vary in size from a few feet to many hundreds of feet.
1963 A. Greenbank Instr. Rock Climbing xiv. 124 The nose..a blunt arête..is bulbous and steep, and can tend to have an awkward and spectacular traverse out to its rounded profile.
1990 A. Fyffe & I. Peter Handbk. Climbing 360/1 Nose, a protruding mass of rock which can be anything from a few to a thousand metres in size.
i. Geology. The end of a plunging fold.
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1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geogr. vi. 74 (caption) Nose of Carrick Castle recumbent fold.]
1946 Mining Rev. 1945 (S. Austral. Dept. Mines) 82 69 The area surveyed forms portion of the nose of a major south-pitching anticlinal structure.
1964 Nature 1 Aug. 469/2 The only high-level slates that have survived denudation are found preserved in the axis of the Loch Awe Syncline and downfolded nose of the Iltay Nappe (Aberfoyle Anticline).
1993 Geophysics 58 1532/1 A region of anomalous seismic time sag associated with fracturing and small quantities of oil and gas was identified on the northwest plunging nose of the Nan Yi Shan anticline.
8. A projecting part which is open at the end; a hollow opening.
†a. A socket on a candlestick, into which a candle is inserted. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > other parts of
nose1432
socketc1440
nozzle1447
flower1521
bobeche1853
grease-pan1936
1432 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 27 (MED) A kandelstyk of laton with foure nosis.
1466 Inventory in Archaeologia (1887) 50 35 (MED) j candilstyke with ij noses.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. ii. sig. F.v The snuffe of a candle that burneth within the candelstyckes nose.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. v. sig. Gg.ij/2 Christ is the shancke or shaft of the Candlesticke, vpon which shanke many snuffes or noses do sticke, whiche hold the light vp to ye Church.
1683 Inventory in Moray Mun. 9–10 May 17 Tuo gilded sconces without noses.
†b. The beak or spout of an alembic, retort, or still. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > retorts or stills > parts of
cane1430
nose1559
steal1585
helm1594
helmet1599
tin-worm1800
tubulure1800
tubulature1830
tubulusc1900
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 53 A blynde limbek is that which hath no nose [L. naso] nor beake, nor limbe or hembe.
1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 146 Take a Caldron with a great and high cover having a beake or nose.
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber ii. i. x. 107 An Alembeck with a wide nose or beak.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 396 Let the nose of the retort enter about half an inch into the water.
c. The open end of a pipe or tube of any kind; esp. the muzzle of a gun; the nozzle of a pair of bellows.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > projecting aperture
spout1412
stroup1505
nosec1576
nozzle1683
nozzle-pipe1816
nozzle-screw1839
nosepiece1858
c1576 in P. Henslowe Diary (1961) p. xix Pesses wth Rynges Appon ther nosse.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 34 Holding the nose of his peece somwhat vpward.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 174 in Wks. II A wretched rascall, that will binde about The nose of his bellowes, lest the wind get out When hee's abroad.
1690 London Gaz. No. 2609/4 A streight Key with a Steel Nose.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 159 The Thermometer hanging over the Nose of the Ground-pipe, by which to govern the Heat.
1706 E. Baynard Anc. Ψυχρολουσια Reviveds II. 236 Bellows to draw the Aereal Niter in at the Valve or Clack..which closing by the Pressure of the Hand, squeezeth it out of the Rostrum or Nose.
1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xvii. 389 Take a Syringe..put the End or Nose of it..in Water.
1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. xxi. 85 A large glass..placed under the Nose of the Worm.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 97 A plug of wood is then to be put into the nose of the Barrel.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 143 The gatherer dips his pipe or tube inside this ring, and with a twirl collects on the end, or ‘nose’, a pear-shaped lump.
1948 W. Fortescue Beauty for Ashes xxii. 172 At intervals it stopped..to allow warminded little boys to finger the ugly noses of guns.
1978 Logophile 6 8/2 A nose may be the nozzle of bellows, the muzzle of a gun [etc.].
2000 P. Beatty Tuff v. 59 We buy a shitload of guns, paint the noses and barrels that street-cone orange so they look like toy guns.
†d. = nose-hole n. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > other parts of furnaces
sump1673
stoking-hole1683
stoking-place1744
mid-feather1748
bottoming hole1815
trunnel-head1819
keystone1821
vault1825
well1825
nose-hole1832
fore-stone1839
nose1839
tongs-carriage1839
tunnel-head1843
glory-hole1849
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 581 The outside is built of common brick,..and the mouth or nose of Stourbridge fire-clay.
†e. The round opening of a piece of blown glass where it has been detached from the blowpipe. Obsolete.
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1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 35/2 The nose of the glass is heated in a furnace constructed at one side, which is called the nose-hole.
1880 Spons' Encycl. Manuf. I. 1064 The end of the piece which was next the now detached pipe, is called the nose.
†f. = nose-pipe n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > tuyere > parts of
nose-pipe1769
nose1874
1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 306 The throat had to be kept dark, the ‘noses’ also dark, and about 6 inches in length.
9. a nose of wax n. now rare a thing easily turned or moulded; a person easily influenced, or of a weak character.Very common c1580–1700, esp. in allusions to the wresting of Scripture (see wrest v. 5).
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > inconstant person or thing > inconstant person
starter1519
changeling1539
flirt1577
Protean1598
weathercock1598
changerc1600
mooncalf1607
minute jacka1616
a nose of wax1821
sugar stick1825
wax-nosea1843
in-and-outer1905
brainstormer1907
?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew vi. f. lxxxixv If the Scripture be contrarye, then [they] make it a nose of waxe and wrest it this waye and that waye till it agree.
1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 76 Affirming..that the Scriptures are darke.., because they may bee wrested euery way, like a nose of waxe, or like a leaden Rule.
1626 R. Bernard Isle of Man ii. 277 They blasphemously publish, that the Scriptures are a Nose of Wax,..and may haue one sense one time, and another at another time, according to the Churches state & condition.
1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 162 This Bill is not worth a second reading. It is a nose of wax.
1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus ix. 167 Oral Tradition, that nose of wax, which you may turn and set, which way you list.
1748 London Mag. 259 Are the laws for preventing the growth of popery only a nose of wax?
1801 W. Huntington God Guardian of Poor 139 He turned his text into a nose-of-wax, in order to make it fit my face.
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xii. 124 Her ladyship..said that I was a nose of wax.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xxx. 300 He was a nose of wax with this woman.
1899 J. Colville Sc. Vernacular 17 The easily imposed on simpleton was a ‘cuif’, or a ‘nose o' wax’.
2001 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 3 Oct. iv. 1 A German proverb says, ‘Justice is a nose of wax.’

Phrases

P1. In phrases with verbs, implying something done to, or with, one's own nose. Frequently colloquial. Also to cock the nose: see cock v.1 Phrases 1. to fuddle one's nose: see fuddle v. 2b. to powder one's nose: see powder v.1 3b. to turn up one's nose: see to turn up 1a at turn v. Phrasal verbs 1.
a.
(a) to hold one's nose and variants: to pinch the nostrils between the fingers to avoid an unpleasant smell. Also figurative.
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c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. 194 (MED) Alle þat herden þat horn held here nose aftir.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. C2v A stiffe docket, Hold your nose master.
1609 Pasquils Iestes (new ed.) 7 He told them it was a sweet arse hole. Whereat euery one holding themselues by the nose, left off their talke.
1710 W. Congreve Of Pleasing in Wks. III. 1064 Full in your Teeth his stinking Whisper throws; Nor mends his Manners, tho' you hold your Nose.
1804 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry II. i. ii. 22 This is all wide of the question, said an unlearned man, holding his hand upon his nose; it is shall we tolerate the pole-cat in this village?
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) I. 188 Son of Jacob! thou stinkest foully. See the man in the moon! he is holding his nose at thee at that distance.
1900 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 74 Surely there are times when he is forced to hold his nose and shut his eyes to shut out the abominable visions he conjures up for us.
1973 Times 18 Sept. 18/2 Then abolish all alternatives to this public system of education, at which they hold their noses.
2001 Belfast Tel. (Electronic ed.) 13 Nov. He was willing to ‘hold his nose’ and become a unionist for 24 hours.
†(b) to hang a nose: to have an inclination or hankering. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)]
thirstc893
forlongc1175
longc1225
alonga1393
greena1400
suspirec1450
earnc1460
to think long?1461
sigh1549
groanc1560
hank1589
twitter1616
linger1630
hanker1642
to hang a nose1655
hangc1672
yammer1705
yen1919
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion viii. 19 If there be in my Kitchin any thing better than other..this Gallant wil hang a nose after it.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 132 Chuse his Bread, And hang a Nose to Leekes, Quaile-Surfetted.
†b. In metaphorical and proverbial allusions to the act of wiping the nose, esp. to wipe one's nose with (also on) one's sleeve (often implying a lack of breeding or manners). Obsolete.
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a1475 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Vitell.) 176 (MED) Thus they wold..Wypen our nose with our owne sleve.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Liiv I maie..make ye wype your nose vpon your sleeue.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique f. 96 My maister your father hath many a tyme & ofte wipt his nose vpon his sleeue, meanyng that his father was a fishemonger.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. i. sig. Diiii She will..byd you seeke your remedy, and so go wype your nose.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Nez They wipe his nose with his owne sleeue, his taile with his owne shirt; they allow him meat, or meanes, out of his owne money.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 160 It was used in that good old world, when men wiped their nose on their sleeve (as the French man sayes).
1666 G. Torrino Prov. Phrases 114 To wipe ones nose with ones sleeve, viz. to be a sloven and ill bred.
1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 108 Jack would wipe his nose if he had it.
c.
†(a) to hold up one's nose: to be proud or haughty. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pride > be proud [verb (intransitive)]
proudOE
pride?c1225
to set up one's comb or hair1528
to hold up one's nose1579
plume1685
superbiate1785
erect one's crest1796
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 228/1 Let women holde vppe their noses no more: for all their presumption is sufficiently beaten downe here.
1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor iv. i. sig. G3 Here he comes, His nose held vp.
1816 ‘P. Pindar’ Nil Admirari in Works of Peter Pindar 449 He dreadeth the fatal Effects of his Flattery of Miss Hannah; making her hold up her Nose in Contempt of the under-World, knowing none but Quality.
(b) to turn up one's nose (at): to show disdain or scorn (for); similarly to look down one's nose (at).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by gesture
scrape1561
to fork the fingers1640
to cock one's nose (up)1692
to look down one's nose (at)1721
to do a Harvey Smith1973
1721 C. Cibber Refusal I. 3 A Man must be nice indeed, that turns up his Nose at a Woman, who has no worse Imperfection, than setting too great a Value upon her Understanding.
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxiii. 191 Though, for aught I know, they too might turn up their noses at it.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clix. 82 Antonia.., turning up her nose, with looks abused Her master.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 28 The better classes turn up their noses at these odoriferous delicacies of the peasantry.
a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 7 What learning there was in those days..turned up its nose at the strains of the native minstrels.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let iii. xi. 306 That chap Jolyon's water-colours were on view there. He went in to look down his nose at them—it might give him some faint satisfaction.
1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iv. 102 When you were all little babies, I used to sing and dance all day. The English neighbours would say ‘That young Mrs Middleton's quite mad,’ and look down their noses.
1986 L. Nkosi Mating Birds xiv. 92 No need for you to turn up your nose like that because things are not what they used to be.
(c) to thumb one's nose: to put one's thumb to one's nose and extend the fingers, as a gesture of derision (usually with at); (figurative) to act with blatant disregard for the feelings or status of a person, organization, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > make derisive gesture
bleara1340
blabber1530
to shoot out1535
pot1549
sleak1674
to make a long nose1828
to thumb one's nose1854
1854 B. P. Shillaber Veteran in Rhymes with Reason & Without 264 Nay, do not thumb thy nose, my son,—It is not well, forsooth; The story that I tell to thee Is simple, honest truth.
1903 R. Dunn Diary 25 July (1907) ix. 109 He thumbed his nose at us.
1929 A. C. Edington & C. Edington Studio Murder Myst. iv. 37 Underlings in the studio thumbed their noses at his back.
1950 Sport 24 Mar. 21/3 He can afford to thumb his nose at any monopoly.
1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 18 June 7/4 If a new Labor Government gets a big enough majority, this will enable it to thumb its nose at the farmers.
d.
(a) to follow one's nose: to go straight forward; (figurative) to go where one pleases, without reflection or preconceived plan; to be guided by instinct.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > a straight course > go in a straight course [verb (intransitive)]
to follow one's nosec1555
beeline1882
row1903
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > perceive by intuition [verb (intransitive)]
to the boneOE
to follow one's nosec1555
intuit1828
1508 J. Stanbridge Vulgaria (1932) 24 Ryght forthe on thy nose.]
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Bviii Who so hath not some aukerward way to helpe himself, but foloweth his nose..alwais straight forward.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 236 All that follow their noses, are led by their eyes, but blind men. View more context for this quotation
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 60 There lies your way, follow your Nose.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 34 The main Maxim of his Philosophy was, To trust to his Senses, and follow his Nose.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. ii. 143 Adams asked him, if he could direct him to an Alehouse. The Fellow..bid him follow his Nose . View more context for this quotation
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. v. i. 1 When the two pilgrims were now come into the suburbs of Bath, Tugwell very civilly enquired which was the Bristol road. ‘Follow your nose, and your a——se will tag after,’ says a taylor's 'prentice.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII xxxii. 127 Juan, following honour and his nose.
1890 J. B. Buckstone Flowers of Forest II. iv. 13 When I get to the top o' the great stairs, I must follow my nose till I turn again to the left.
1969 S. Heaney Bait in Door into Dark (1972) 28 Lamps dawdle in the field at midnight. Three men follow their nose in the grass.
1991 R. Ferguson Henry Miller v. 98 It was the freedom of the truant school boy, of the dog following its nose, not the elaborate philosophical freedom of the intellectual.
(b) to poke (also stick, thrust, etc.) one's nose into (also in) (something): to intrude or interfere, esp. without good reason, in (something, esp. someone else's concern). Conversely: to keep one's nose out.
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the mind > attention and judgement > feel curious about [verb (transitive)] > pry
overpry1566
to pry into ——1581
underfeel1600
to poke (also stick, thrust, etc.) one's nose into (also in)1611
spy1626
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Nez Mettre le nez par tout, to thrust his nose into euery corner.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Besnoffelen, To See, Prie, or Have his nose in every thing.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical xi. 151 Let the Conversation turn upon what Subject it pleases, be it of War, or of Religion, Morality, or Politicks, he will perpetually thrust his Nose into it.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To thrust one's Nose into the affairs of others, to be meddling with other people's matters; to be a busy body.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. ii. 138 In those days nobody..thrust his nose into other people's affairs.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxvi. 347 Beck! leave the room. What do you want poking your nose in here?
1856 C. Reade It is never too Late I. xv. 255 If he hadn't been a fool and put his nose into my business.
1859 Presbyterian Mag. Nov. 509 We have a decided disliking for Miss-Fortune. She is ever sticking her nose in where it is not wanted.
1870 M. J. Holmes 'Lena Rivers v. 51 ‘And can't Carrie quit sticking her nose in other folks' business?’ chimed in John Jr.
1883 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 190 A flourishing Evangelical, who poked his nose into everything.
1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers ix. 79 Can ye get they things without Mrs. Walters seein' ye?.. It would never do for her to be stickin' her holy nose into it.
1920 Cases Supreme Court Colorado 63 383 She was sticking her nose in his business, and would not help him.
1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner xi. 231 It happens to be nothing to do with Ed, but you keep your nose out of it, anyway.
1989 Eagle 28 Oct. 29 You're going to regret that, soldier! No-one asked you to stick your nose in.
1993 Macworld Dec. 7/2 (advt.) The painless, yet powerful, System 7 savvy way to keep other people's noses permanently out of both your personal and professional data.
2006 W. E. B. Griffin Hostage (2007) xv. 562 People killed—because some hotshot..stuck his nose in what was being developed and blew it.
(c) to show one's nose: to appear or go in person; similarly to put one's nose inside (a place).
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a1704 T. Brown Acct. Conversat. Liberty of Conscience in Duke of Buckingham Misc. Wks. (1705) II. i. 126 He durst hardly show his Nose over his hatch.
1712 J. Gay Mohocks ii. 6 A Man of Reputation would never be able to show his Nose after such an Affront.
1788 S. Low Politician Out-witted i. iii Why the Jews wou'dn't dare for to show their noses out o'doors.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 334 The instant she showed her nose round the point, we began our salute. She came in under top-gallant sails.
1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. xiv. 289 A week ago I was at home there; now I daren't show my nose in the house.
1917 R. Fry Let. 23 Nov. (1972) II. 420 Millions of people..catch me on the telephone the moment I just put my nose inside the Omega.
1935 J. Buchan House of Four Winds i. 42 I should like to put my nose inside Evallonia just to say I'd been there.
1995 S. Barry Only True Hist. Lizzie Finn ii, in Plays: One (1997) 232 It was to give to our child, should he show his nose, or she.
(d) to bury one's nose in: to become intently occupied with, spec. to read studiously or intently; so to have one's nose in: to be engrossed with (esp. a book).
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1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew i. sig. B1v The foul Fiend took him napping with his nose Betwixt the sheet-leaves of his conjuring Book.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 345 Mr. Weller looked very profound as he delivered this legal opinion; and burying his nose in his tumbler, winked over the top thereof.]
1840 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop I. xx. 204 At this reply Mr. Witherden buried his nose in the flowers again.
1845 N. P. Willis Dashes at Life with Free Pencil ii. 66 He buried his nose deeper between the leaves [of the book], and sat down on the low counter, forgetful alike of his dilemma and his lost friend.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. vi. 91 He..filled his pipe, and buried his nose in ‘Harrington's Oceana’.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters iv. 26 ‘What's that you're burying your nose in now?’ and if she faltered, ‘It's the Bible.’
1947 M. Lowry Under Volcano i. 25 Geoffrey's ‘nose was always in a book’.
1968 M. Jones Survivor ii. 33 It was considered anti-social to ‘have your nose stuck in a book’.
1980 M. Bail Homesickness v. 261 Gerald had his nose in a Dictionary of Architectural Terms.
1996 H. Marks Mr Nice (1998) xiv. 375 She had her nose buried in David Leigh's High Time, Lovato's book-of-the-month.
(e) to get one's nose down (to): to work hard and concentratedly (at). Cf. to hold one's nose to the grindstone at grindstone n. 2b.
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society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil
workeOE
swingc1000
to the boneOE
labourc1390
toilc1400
drevyll?1518
drudge1548
droy1576
droil1591
to tug at the (an) oar1612
to stand to it1632
rudge1676
slave1707
to work like a beaver1741
to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828
to feague it away1829
to work like a nigger1836
delve1838
slave1852
leather1863
to sweat one's guts out1890
hunker1903
to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932
to eat (also work) like a horse1937
beaver1946
to work like a drover's dog1952
to get one's nose down (to)1962
1962 Times 31 May 4/1 Getting their noses really down to business.
1966 P. G. Wodehouse Plum Pie i. 11 One would certainly have expected him by this time to have raised the price of a marriage licence and had the Bishop and assistant clergy getting their noses down to it.
e.
(a) to cut off one's nose (to spite one's face): to disadvantage oneself in the course of trying to disadvantage another (usually with the implication that a person knows the likely consequences of his or her actions beforehand).
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the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)] > suffer loss > do something to one's own loss
to cut off one's nose (to spite one's face)1788
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) (at cited word) He cut off his nose to be revenged of his face. Said of one who, to be revenged on his neighbour, has materially injured himself.
1813 J. Poole Hole in Wall i Stub. Then, Emily will marry me to revenge herself upon her faithless captain. Mar. Yes, she'll cut off her nose to be revenged of her face.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxiv. 215 I make it a rule never to cut the nose off my own face.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay xi. 166 I don't fancy Deering will cut off his nose to spite his face.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters ii. 9 It's cutting off his nose to spite his face! Why is he so anxious to be the only carrier in Barbie that he carries stuff for next to noathing the moment another man tries to work the roads?
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xiv. 228 If he hadn't the set on the Sudermans..he wouldn't have wanted to cut off his nose to spite his face.
2000 Times 11 Jan. 44/3 It seems to England's opponents like a case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
(b) to keep one's nose clean: to behave properly, to keep out of trouble (see also quot. 1909).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > behave well [verb (intransitive)]
to be (or stand) on or upon one's behaviour, or one's good behavioura1538
to keep one's nose clean1841
to put up a good show1904
1841 Spirit of Age (Woodstock, Vermont) 23 July What do you think of me ihope [sic] you will be a good gal and keep your nose clean until I shall have the pleasure of seeing you.
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 13 Oct. 5/3 There's worse fellows than you looking for it, and if you only keep your nose clean, we'll let you have it.
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 162/1 Keep your nose clean (Army), avoid drink.
1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra ii. 54 I give you the sawbuck because you've just got out of the can. Keep your nose clean.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr. Love & Justice 15 What we're offering you is—well, influence... How you manage there, provided you keep your nose clean, is really up to you.
1988 Ice Hockey News Rev. 19 Nov. 31/1 It could all come down to injuries and suspensions and we just have to make sure we keep our noses clean.
f. to make a long nose: to put the thumb to the nose as a gesture of mockery.In quot. 1781 humorously presented as an error for to make a long arm when directed at a person with an unusually long nose (see long arm n.1 2). This may be evidence of currency of the phrase to make a long nose in its usual sense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > make derisive gesture
bleara1340
blabber1530
to shoot out1535
pot1549
sleak1674
to make a long nose1828
to thumb one's nose1854
1781 Compl. London Jester (ed. 10) 54 She should be much obliged to him, if he would make a long Nose and reach her the Salt.]
1828 F. E. J. Valpy Etymol. Dict. Lat. Lang. 280/2 Nāsūtus, having a large nose. Also jeering, satirical. As making a long nose by way of ridicule.
1868 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 263 Prawle made a ‘long nose’ in the direction of Goree Piazzas.
1933 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Rebel x. 187 They merely made long noses at the Outlaws.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June 20 Izzy Grant saw one [sc. a Gremlin]..making a long nose at him as he went into the ditch.
1986 Irish Times 19 Feb. 12/2 Their disdainful society profiles floating beneath coloured crests, like fingers of empty gloves, making a long nose at you.
g.
(a) to get it up one's nose (chiefly in P. G. Wodehouse): to become affected by something; esp. to become angry or infatuated.
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1900 G. Ade More Fables 167 The quiet School Trustee kind of a Man..is the worst Indian in the World when he does find himself among the Tall Houses and gets it Up his Nose.
1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves iii. 67 This lad seems to have chucked all the principles of a well-spent boyhood. He has got it up his nose!
1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves xvii. 220 So thoroughly had Gussie got it up his nose by now that it seemed to me that had he sighted me he might have become personal.
1973 P. G. Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous viii. 92 ‘See what I mean?.. Got it right up his nose,’ said Mr. Llewellyn. ‘I have seldom seen a case where the symptoms were more clearly marked,’ said Mr. Trout. ‘He is taking her to dinner.’
(b) slang. to get up a person's nose: to annoy or irritate a person.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)]
gremec893
grillc897
teenOE
mispay?c1225
agrillec1275
oftenec1275
tarya1300
tarc1300
atenec1320
enchafec1374
to-tarc1384
stingc1386
chafe?a1400
pokec1400
irec1420
ertc1440
rehete1447
nettlec1450
bog1546
tickle1548
touch1581
urge1593
aggravate1598
irritate1598
dishumour1600
to wind up1602
to pick at ——1603
outhumour1607
vex1625
bloody1633
efferate1653
rankle1659
spleen1689
splenetize1700
rile1724
roil1742
to put out1796
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
roughen1837
acerbate1845
to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846
nag1849
to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859
frump1862
rattle1865
to set up any one's bristles1873
urticate1873
needle1874
draw1876
to rough up1877
to stick pins into1879
to get on ——1880
to make (someone) tiredc1883
razoo1890
to get under a person's skin1896
to get a person's goat1905
to be on at1907
to get a person's nanny1909
cag1919
to get a person's nanny-goat1928
cagmag1932
peeve1934
tick-off1934
to get on a person's tits1945
to piss off1946
bug1947
to get up a person's nose1951
tee1955
bum1970
tick1975
1951 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 1120/2 Nose, get up one's, to upset, annoy, irritate, render ‘touchy’.
1975 Daily Mail 6 Aug. 7/1 The implication that granny was a little winning knockout with a system that couldn't be bettered..does, I'm afraid, get rather up my nose.
1989 Baby Winter 12/2 He'll persist in putting them on the table because he knows that for some extraordinary reason it gets right up your nose!
1992 Daily Mirror 3 Oct. 9/1 I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw.
P2. In phrases with verbs, implying something done to another person. Frequently colloquial. Also to lead by the nose: see lead v.1 4c. to pull by the nose: see pull v. 5.
a.
†(a) to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose: to reproach or upbraid a person with. Cf. to cast (a thing) in one's teeth at cast v. 65. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase]
to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handc1300
to lay the blame on1393
to give the wrong to?1473
to lay in (his) neckc1515
to cast (any one) in the teeth1526
to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526
to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose1526
to dash one in the teeth with (something)1530
call to or in coram1542
to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551
to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at)1568
to cast up1604
to nail to the barn door1894
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Div He wyll obiecte it to the and caste it in thy nose.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 256/1 Let euery one of us..take such heede to him selfe, that this reproch bee not laide to our noses.
a1600 Floddan Field (1664) 75 Let it never be laid unto our nose, That Scotchmen made us turn our back.
(b) to bite (also snap) a person's nose off: to reply in a curt, sharp, or angry manner. Cf. to bite a person's head off at bite v. Phrasal verbs 1, to snap one's head off at snap v. 7b. Now rare.Cf. Shakespeare Much Ado v. i. 116.
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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 Shee was a shrewish snappish bawd, that wold bite off a mans nose with an answere.
1661 Guy Earl of Warwick i Why Father if you'l not bite off my Nose, Ile tell ye, I promised her to go home and eat a sowre Milk Posset.
1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i. 7 I..ask'd him if he was at leisure for his Chocolate,..but he snap'd my Nose off, No, I shall be busie here these two Hours.
1742 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 166 Old G. snapped my nose off for saying I had sent for him.
1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. ix. 213 Don't bite one's nose off... Gemini! what a passion you puts yourself into.
1829 M. R. Lacy Two Friends I. ii. 22 There was no occasion to snap my nose off, neither: I repeat, I wished you for my brother-in-law—is there any harm in that?
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. vi. 159 Don't bite my nose off, Frederic, because I am anxious about your wife.
1879 J. Poole Lodgings for Single Gentlemen 10 There is no need to snap one's nose off.
1996 Evening Standard (Nexis) 18 Jan. 32 The manageress bites their noses off while smiling a tight little grin of cold contempt.
†(c) to bite by the nose: to treat with contempt. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt
unworthc950
to make scorn at, toc1320
to take in vainc1330
despise1377
rebuke?a1400
despite1481
indign1490
to make a mumming of1523
flock1545
scandalize1566
to make coarse account of1578
misregard1582
overpeer1583
to make a pish at (also of)1593
to make a push at1600
to bite by the nose1602
blurta1625
to piss ona1625
to make wash-way of, with1642
trample1646
huff1677
snouch1761
to walk over (the course)1779
to run over ——1816
snoot1928
shaft1959
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I3v Hor. I did it but to——. Tu. But to bite euery Motley-head vice by'th nose, you did it Ningle to play the Bug-beare Satyre.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 108 Has he affections in him, That thus can make him bite the Law by th' nose ? View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. K3/2 Sam. That little Lawyer, would so..bite your honour by the nose... La-wr. So niggle about your grave shins Lord Vertaigne.
1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. i. i. 2 As the Proverb says, thô the Bear be gentle, don't bite him by the nose.
†(d) slang. to make a bridge of a person's nose: to pass over or disregard a person, esp. at table. Obsolete (in later use British regional).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > be disappointed [verb (intransitive)] > pass someone by
to make a bridge of a person's nose1699
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) You make a Bridge of his Nose, when you pass your next Neighbor in Drinking, or one is preferr'd over another's Head.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 135 Pray, my Lord, don't make a Bridge of my Nose.
1768 Ray's Prov. 180 To make a bridge of one's nose, i.e. To intercept one's trencher, cup, or the like; or to offer or pretend to do kindnesses to one, and then pass him by, and do it to another; to lay hold upon and serve himself of that which was intended for another.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) If the first drink..offers to give the mug to the third, the second will exclaim, ‘Stop thear, thou sall'nt mak a brig o my noaz.’
b. to put (also †thrust) a person's nose out of joint: to annoy, upset, or disconcert a person; to spoil a person's plans; so to have (also get) one's nose out of joint and variants.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 82 Þat it miht be þe siurer put owt of dowt, and my nōz owt of ȝoi[nt].
1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. K iv It could bee no other then his owne manne, that had thrust his nose so farre out of ioynte.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 31 May (1970) III. 97 The King is pleased enough with her: which I fear will put Madam Castlemaines nose out of Joynt.
1692 T. D'Urfey Marriage-hater Match'd i. i. 7 Now Buffle look to your self, here's one coming will quickly put your Nose out of joynt with the Widow I warrant ye.
1754 W. Goodall Exam. Lett. Mary Queen of Scots Introd. 8 This method of proceeding..thrust their noses quite out of joint.
1796 F. Burney Camilla I. i. ii. 21 Camilla's a little jewel... I must keep a sharp watch, or she'll put poor Indiana's nose quite out of joint, which God forbid.
1840 F. Trollope Widow Married I. xi. 279 She won't put my nose out, any how.
1909 H. Belloc in M. Baring Orpheus in Mayfair 37 Do not let your nose, your Royal nose, Your large Imperial Nose get out of joint.
2000 Ace Jan. 59/4 We were unable to include every promising player, so there were always going to be some noses out of joint.
†c.
(a) to bore a person's nose: to cheat or swindle a person. to joint a person's nose of (rare): to trick or cheat a person out of. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > defraud or swindle [verb (intransitive)]
to pull a finchc1386
to bore a person's nose?1577
to wipe a person's nose1577
verse1591
lurch1593
to grope a gull1594
cheat1647
to lick (another's) fingers1656
to live upon the shark1694
sharp1709
fineer1765
to pluck a pigeon1769
swindle1769
to run a game1894
to sell (a person) a pup1901
scam1963
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase]
to pull a finchc1386
to wipe a person's nosea1475
to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523
to play fast and loose1557
to play false1576
to joint a person's nose of?1577
to make a cousin of1580
to sell smoke1589
munge1660
to sell (a person) a packet1886
to beat the count1897
to sell (a person) a pup1901
to hand (someone) a lemon1906
to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927
?1577 Misogonus ii. i, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 194 That old churle I am sure would haue borde you throughe nose.
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Euterpe (1888) 163 Apyres was perswaded that neither god nor the diuell coulde haue ioynted his nose of the Empyre.
1599 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. King Edward IV sig. Ov Bur. Adiew Sir, I may chance to hit you pat... Con. You may Sir? I perhappes may be before ye, And for this cunning through the nose to bore ye.
a1600 T. Deloney Gentle Craft (1627) i. xiii. 65 I doe not doubt but to marry her my selfe, and so to giue the Dutchman the flampam, and bore him through the nose with a cuspin.
a1605 W. Haughton English-men for my Money (1616) sig. G3v Laur. Ouer watching makes a wiseman madde, Much more a foole, theres a Cusshon for you. Mar. To bore you through the nose. Laur. To lay your head on.
1650 J. Howell Instr. Forren Travell (new ed.) viii. 59 I have known divers Dutch Gentlemen grosly guld by this cheat, and som English bor'd also through the nose this way.
1664 J. Scudamore Homer a la Mode 18 Thinke not that thus thou shall me Cokes, And bore my nose, like Iohn a Nokes.
1723 J. Barker Patch-work Screen for Ladies 99 Mother, can you think thus to bore my Nose with a Cushion? Can you imagine me so stupid?
(b) to wipe a person's nose: to cheat or dupe a person; (with of) to defraud a person of. Obsolete. [Compare classical Latin ēmungere to wipe the nose, to trick, swindle, defraud (chiefly in Plautus and Terence: see emunge v.).]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)]
skirpc1175
to make it quainta1393
flout1575
to wipe a person's nose1577
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > defraud or swindle [verb (intransitive)]
to pull a finchc1386
to bore a person's nose?1577
to wipe a person's nose1577
verse1591
lurch1593
to grope a gull1594
cheat1647
to lick (another's) fingers1656
to live upon the shark1694
sharp1709
fineer1765
to pluck a pigeon1769
swindle1769
to run a game1894
to sell (a person) a pup1901
scam1963
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > win > defeat someone
to wipe a person's nose1577
to wipe a person's eye1823
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something
beguile1394
wrongc1484
delude1493
licka1500
to wipe a person's nose1577
uncle1585
cheat1597
cozen1602
to bob of1605
to bob out of1605
gull1612
foola1616
to set in the nick1616
to worm (a person) out of1617
shuffle1627
to baffle out of1652
chouse1654
trepan1662
bubble1668
trick1698
to bamboozle out of1705
fling1749
jockey1772
swindle1780
twiddle1825
to diddle out of1829
nig1829
to chisel out of1848
to beat out1851
nobble1852
duff1863
flim-flam1890
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 323/2 Hee deuised a shifte howe to wype the Byshoppes nose of some of his Golde.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch i. i, in Terence in Eng. 115 The very destruction of our substance: who wipes our noses of all that we should have.
1602 N. Breton Packet of Lett. in Wks. (1879) II. 23 Some body shall wipe their nose for their knauery.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 362 Many thinke his nose will be wiped of it.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 17 July (1974) VIII. 343 That..the King [might] own a marriage before his contract..with the Queene, and so wipe their noses of the Crown.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Wipe He Wipt his Nose, c. he gull'd him.
1709 C. Cibber Rival Fools i. 3 I durst lay my Life thou wipest this foolish Knight's Nose of his Mistress at last.
†(c) to play with a person's nose: to make game of a person. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > make fun of
to have (also i-do) (something) to gameeOE
to make (a) game of (also at, on)?c1250
overmirtha1400
sporta1533
to make a sport of1535
to make (up) a lip1546
to give one a (or the) gleek1567
to make a May game of1569
to play with a person's nose1579
to make merry over (also with)1621
game1699
to make fun of1732
hit1843
1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo i. 16 Touching the frutefulnes of his Mule,..I coulde find him sporte by Philosophie, if I were disposed to play with his nose.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. E3v Pesana hearing how pleasantly Melicertus plaid with her nose, thought to giue him as great a bone to gnaw vppon.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Nasarder To fillip;..also, to frumpe, or breake a ieast on; play with the nose of.
d. to count (also †tell) noses: to determine the number of people present, or on a particular side.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > enumerate, reckon, or calculate [verb (intransitive)] > people
to count (also tell) noses1657
1657 Leveller in Harl. Misc. (1745) IV. 515 The Leveller's Designs, to make all Men's Estates to be equal, and to divide the Land by telling Noses.
1691 D. Defoe New Discov. Old Intreague xxxiv. 34 Tells how in Common Hall he counted Noses.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 117 Some modern Zealots appear to have no better knowledg of Truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting Noses.
1777 R. Dodsley Mod. Reasoning in Trifles 289 Truth is not prov'd by counting noses.
1836 R. P. Smith Man with Nose in Actress of Padua II. 22 ‘The scoundrel of a driver must have stowed more than his complement into the vehicle.’ ‘Let us count noses,’ cried the young woman.
1952 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Feb. 10/7 Perhaps its because there's no one able to run around counting noses, but way out there in South Dakota..not a single fatality has been reported.
1991 Canada Lutheran Nov. 5/3 Even though we struggle together as the Church to discern God's will for life, in the end we are guided by individual interpretations. That's why we count noses at church conventions.
e. New Zealand. In plural. In phrases describing the Maori custom of hongi, as to touch (press, etc.) noses: to perform the Maori greeting hongi.For to rub noses: see rub v.1 Phrases 6 and nose rubbing n. at Compounds 2; despite the frequency of this form it does not accurately describe the practice.to press noses is the preferred modern English use; see quot. 1984.
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c1771 W. B. Monkhouse in J. Cook Jrnls. (1955) I. 567 But tho' the man saw C. Cook give away his weapon to put himself on a footing with him..he had not courage enough to wait his arrival.., however he at last ventured forward, they saluted by touching noses.
1820 A. McCrae Jrnl. (1928) 12 On taking leave of these boys I touched noses with them.
1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand I. 75 Every one of them came up to press noses.
1905 W. Baucke in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 50 I therefore murmured, ‘I greet you’, and crossed noses with her.
1953 E. Linklater Year of Space (1954) 201 This old lady cannot speak English, but she has asked me to say that she would like to press noses with you.
1984 R. Corballis & S. Garrett Introd. Witi Ihimaera 23 Further changes were made before the first ‘Tangi’ (in Contemporary Maori Writing) became the definitive version (in Pounamu, Pounamu)... The characters ‘rub’ noses in the earlier version; they ‘press’ them in the later one.
1996 A. T. Hakiwai in D. C. Starzecka Maori Art & Culture iii. 57 When Maori people meet, they greet each other in the traditional way by pressing noses together, the custom known as the hongi.
†f. to make a person's nose swell: to make a person jealous or envious; so to have one's nose swell: to be made jealous or envious. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > be or become jealous or envious [verb (intransitive)] > make one jealous or envious
to make a person's nose swell1675
1675 Town-misses Manifesto (title page) The good Wives were in those Golden days so obedient and well Condition'd, as not to whimper or have their Noses Swell at it.
1743 in T. B. Howell State Trials (1813) XVII. 1187 He heard lord Altham say,..my wife has got a son, which will make my brother's nose swell.
1876 Wellington Jrnl. 5 Feb. 6/5 ‘To make a person's nose swell’, to make him jealous or mistrusting.
g. to rub (also occasionally push) a person's nose in it: to draw a person's attention to an embarrassing or painful fact, esp. in an emphatic way.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] > by reminding of fault
to rub (also occasionally push) a person's nose in it1929
1929 New Yorker 27 July 32/1 ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, the German tale which closes a mighty hand on the neck of the squirming human race and instructively, punitively, rubs its nose in the war.
1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air v. 93 It wants somebody to tell him he's a tick and rub his nose in it.
1963 P. M. Hubbard Flush as May xiii. 121 I'm sorry. I've said I'm sorry... Don't rub my nose in it.
1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy i. 18 Using me on a hard news story would be pushing their noses in it—treating them like a branch office with printing facilities.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 27 They had more coke, better weed, bigger gold, prettier women. They loved rubbing our noses in it.
h. U.S. slang (in African-American usage). to get a person's nose open: to cause a person to be strongly attracted to one; to have one's nose open: to be strongly attracted to a person.
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1957 in M. Leadbitter & N. Slaven Blues Records (1968) 110 (title of song) You got my nose right open.
1963 D. W. Maurer in R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) xi. 745 A cat in hot pursuit of a chick or fox is said to have his nose wide open.
1968 E. Cleaver Soul on Ice i. i. 9 What about the gray girl in San Jose who had your nose wide open?
1974 V. Matthews & N. Amdur My Race be Won 80 Before too long, some Southern girl is going to open your nose.
1975 R. H. Rimmer Premar Exper. (1976) i. 145 Merle will tell you that in ghetto language ‘to have one's nose open’ indicates sexual excitement.
1990 A. H. Vachss Blossom 192 Get his nose open. Make him a deal.
1994 N. McCall Makes me wanna Holler xiii. 106 I was so smitten by her that I stopped hanging on the corner so much. The fellas said she had my nose open.
i. to give (a person, thing, etc.) a bloody nose: to inflict a resounding defeat on a person.
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1943 Evening Despatch 25 Oct. 1/3 They did not yield an inch of ground in a very severe rout of fighting, and at points they battled forward. ‘On each occasion we gave them a bloody nose,’ a military observer said to-day.
1970 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 1 369 A segment of the Maronite clergy..succeeded in dealing the system a bloody nose in the 1820s.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 Dec. 8/1 In 1972 and 1974, they had given Edward Heath a very bloody nose.
2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon li. 805 Our air force and our American friends have given their air force a very bloody nose. We've killed over thirty of their aircraft with only four losses.
j. to pay through the nose: to pay an exorbitant price, be charged excessively. Also figurative.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay dearly or excessively
to pay sauce1659
to pay size1662
to pay through the nose1666
1666 G. Torriano Proverbial Phrases 242/2 in Piazza Universale Oft-times Rich men engrossing commodities, will make one pay through the nose, whereas they might sell the cheaper.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 270 Made them pay for it most unconscionably and through the Nose.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. x. vi. 287 She knows nothing of business, and is made to pay for every thing through the nose.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. ii. 27 But paying through the nose was not the worst of it.
1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. ix. 136 Something for which the public had that day paid, and paid through its nose.
1953 H. Clevely Public Enemy xvii. 105 You're goin' to pay through the nose, an' you're goin' to go on payin'.
1988 Football Today Nov. 45/1 Crowds..are..prepared to pay, often through the nose, to stand on cold concrete throughout the misery of a British winter to watch their team play.
P3. In prepositional phrases, chiefly indicating closeness or proximity.
†a. (in) spite of one's nose: notwithstanding one's opposition or objection. Similarly (in Middle English) maugre his nose. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > defiance
to one's face, teethc1000
in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230
in the teeth1297
maugre a person's head (also beard, cheeks, eyes, heart, neck, teeth, will, etc.)c1325
maugre his nosec1325
despitec1380
in (the) maugre (of)c1450
in spite of (also maugre) a person's beard?1537
in the teeth of1792
malgré lui1796
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > however, nevertheless, notwithstanding
though-whetherc897
nathelesseOE
though971
whetherOE
yetOE
neverlOE
what for-thyc1175
nethelessa1200
never the latterc1225
algatec1230
in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230
nought for thatc1275
(all) for noughtc1325
(in) spite of one's nosec1325
alway1340
thoughless1340
ne'er the later (also latter)a1382
ne'er the lessa1382
neverlatera1382
neverthelessa1382
ne for-thia1400
neverlessa1400
not-againstandinga1400
nauthelessc1400
nouthelessc1400
algatesc1405
noughtwithstanding1422
netherless?a1425
notwithstanding1425
nethertheless1440
not gainstandingc1440
not the lessa1450
alwaysa1470
howbeit1470
never þe quedera1475
nought the lessc1480
what reck?a1513
nonetheless1533
howsomever1562
after all1590
in spite of spite1592
meantime1594
notwithstand1596
withal1596
in the meanwhile1597
meanwhile1597
howsoever1601
in (one's) spite?1615
however1623
in the meantime1631
non obstante1641
at the same time1679
with a non-obstante to1679
stilla1699
the same1782
all the same1803
quand même1825
still and all1829
anyhow1867
anyway1876
still and ona1894
all the samey1897
just the same1901
but1939
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2090 (MED) Maximian was suþþe aslawe, maugre is nose.
1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye (Pv) Wyl in spite of theyr nose become their tenaunts.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 286 In spite of his nose, he must confesse al this speach to be figuratiue.
?a1610 A. Montgomerie Poems (1887) 49 Ȝit I will on hir permanence repose In spyte of Fortuns nose.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cxxxviii. 7 Annot.) 672/1 Our English usual expression, in spite of the nose of mine enemies.
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 93 He would go spite of all their noses.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque in Wks. (1725) 182 Spight of your Nose, and will ye, nill ye, I will go home again, that will I.
1834 New Eng. Mag. Mar. 196 I have been a traveller in spite of my nose.
b. under a person's nose: right in front of a person; esp. (done) right in front of a person but without him or her noticing, or noticing in time to stop it.
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the world > space > place > presence > present [phrase] > in or into a person's presence
in (also into, intil, to) present?c1225
in one's (or the) visage1430
under a person's nosea1450
in the face of1482
in the wing of1579
before one's nosec1604
to one's nosea1616
the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close to a person > very
under a person's nosea1450
at (also by) one's nose1526
society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [adverb]
barelyc950
beforeOE
openlyOE
nakedly?c1225
in a person's bearda1250
opelyc1275
apertly1297
commonlya1325
opena1325
overtlyc1325
pertlya1375
plainc1380
in (also on) opena1382
in apertc1384
plainlyc1390
in open (also general) audiencea1393
aperta1400
in commonaltya1400
outa1400
without laina1400
in commonc1400
publishlyc1400
pertc1410
in publicc1429
on higha1450
in pert1453
to a person's facea1470
into heightc1480
forthward?1504
but hidel?1507
publicly1534
uncolouredly1561
roundly1563
famously1570
vulgarly1602
above board1603
round1604
displayedly1611
on (also upon) the square?1611
undisguisedly1611
broadly1624
discoveredly1659
unveiledly1661
under a person's nose1670
manifestly1711
before faces1762
publically1797
overboard1834
unashamedly1905
upfront1972
a1450 York Plays (1885) 463 (MED) Þer Jewes..sawe..þis wondir sight..wroght vndir þer nose.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxviii Why doth your grace..couet a countrey farre from your sight, before a realme vnder your nose?
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. i. 138/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I In some places where the kings and princes dwelled not vnder his [sc. the Pope's] nose.
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue i. 7 You are but a meane obseruer of the course..of things passing dayly under your nose.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. iv. 153 They..suffer'd the Duke..to continue his work under their noses.
1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 240 His Lordship procur'd and bought near 800 Horses, under the Enemies nose.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 20 I being actually hired under the nose of the good woman that kept the office, whose shrewd smiles and shrugs I could not help observing.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) iii. 63 They continue to sin under my very nose.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. viii. 188 So daring did these men of Pyquag become, that they extended those plantations of onions..under the very noses of the garrison of Fort Goed Hoop.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Mr. Gilfil's Love-story i, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 162 A parson, always under your nose on your own estate.
1912 J. Conrad Some Reminisc. iv. 128 I was composed enough to perceive..the matchbox lying there on the mantelpiece right under my nose.
1991 Times 17 Dec. 21/1 Rolls-Royce has won a £500 million order from under the noses of American arch rivals.
†c. at (also by) one's nose: very close to one, right in front of one. Obsolete.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close to a person > very
under a person's nosea1450
at (also by) one's nose1526
1526 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 543 That citie stondith in a very strong place hard at his [sc. the Pope's] nose.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Qiii She had hyr landes by the Shryues nose.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 695 Because the war was ouert at his nose, with the French kyng.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. i. 94 What hast not thou full often stroke a Doe, And borne her cleanlie by the Keepers nose? View more context for this quotation
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. vii. 44 The taking of so important a place, just at the nose of so strong an Army.
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus II. To Rdr. They make 'em believe, Rewards and Honours are just at their very Noses.
d. before one's nose: right in front of one; straight forward.
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the world > space > place > presence > present [phrase] > in or into a person's presence
in (also into, intil, to) present?c1225
in one's (or the) visage1430
under a person's nosea1450
in the face of1482
in the wing of1579
before one's nosec1604
to one's nosea1616
c1604 Charlemagne (1938) v. 100 What a lardge passage..theise prynces make, to come vnto ye way which lyes before theire nosses.
1731 J. Mitchell Highland Fair I. ii. 18 Marriage is, like Death, a great Leap in the Dark. Folks shou'd look an Inch before their Noses.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 195 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 563 As open pussie's mortal foes, When, pop! she starts before their nose.
1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain ii. i. 147 I know there are ten thousand persons who cannot see an inch before their nose, and who can comfortably digest contradictions.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiii. 109 I ran straight before my nose, till I could run no longer.
1995 S. Hannah Hero & Girl Next Door 11 When journalists whip out a hefty sum Before your nose, to make you sell our story, You'll have no qualms.
†e. to one's nose: = under a person's nose at Phrases 3b. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > place > presence > present [phrase] > in or into a person's presence
in (also into, intil, to) present?c1225
in one's (or the) visage1430
under a person's nosea1450
in the face of1482
in the wing of1579
before one's nosec1604
to one's nosea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. vi. 87 To see your Wiues dishonour'd to your Noses . View more context for this quotation
f. to see beyond one's nose and variants: to seek for or perceive more than what is immediately obvious; esp. to consider different possibilities or foresee the consequences of one's action. Usually in negative contexts.
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1659 J. Howell Some Prov. French Toung 9/2 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) He sees no farther then the end of his nose.
1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 214 Onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks foreward, further than his nose.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. 67 ‘Bad way too,’ cried Briggs, ‘never get on with it, never see beyond your nose; won't be worth a plum while your head wags!’
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. ix. 97/2 Haggard hungry operatives who see no farther than their nose.
1878 H. James Watch & Ward vii. 146 I must protest against the vulgar assumption of people who don't see beyond their noses.
1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air ii. 36 ‘He's a good fellow,’ said Thomas. ‘But he can't see beyond the end of his nose.’
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. xii. 124 Africans can see just as far beyond their noses as other people.
1994 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 9 Jan. 2 Travel is most broadening when you look beyond what is in front of your nose.
g. with one's nose in the air and variants: in a haughty or disdainful manner; cf. Phrases 1c(a); so nose-in-the-air adj., haughty, disdainful.
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the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > [adjective]
overmoodeOE
highlyOE
overmoodOE
overmoodyOE
orgelc1175
dangerous?c1225
orgula1275
orgulousc1275
fiercec1290
hautain1297
highfulc1325
squeamousc1325
deignousc1330
digne1340
disdainousc1374
sirlya1375
lordlyc1390
high-hearteda1398
haught1430
haut1430
coppedc1449
excellentc1450
fastidious?a1475
loftyc1485
dain?1507
hichty1513
stiff-necked1526
supercilious1528
haughty1530
taunt?a1534
disdainfula1542
high in the instep1555
skeighc1560
queen-like?1571
surlyc1572
stately1579
coy1581
paughtya1586
steya1586
disdained1598
dortya1605
lordlike1605
overly1606
magnatical1608
stiff1608
surly-borne1609
high-sighted1610
lofty-minded1611
sublimed1611
patronizing1619
lording1629
sublimated1634
cavaliering1642
uncondescending1660
nose-in-the-air1673
sidy1673
fastuose1674
uncondescensive1681
condescending1707
stiff-rumped1728
fastidiose1730
cavalier1751
ogertful1754
pawky1809
supercilian1825
splendid1833
touch-me-not1852
pincé1858
high-stepping1867
eyeglassy1871
sniffy1871
cavalierly1876
snifty1889
Olympian1900
ritzy1920
mugwumpish1923
blasé1930
stiff-arsed1937
nose-high1939
1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iii. i Your Spanish Hose, and your Nose in the Air, make you look like a great grisled-long-Irish-Grey-hound, reaching a Crust off from a high Shelf, ha, ha, ha.
a1845 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Lyrics (1881) 91 The old woman sat in her rush-bottom'd chair, And she snorted and sniff'd with her nose in the air.
1865 A. Munby Verses New & Old 121 How dainty all his steps advance! With nose in air, and sidelong glance Intent to see who looks, and why.
1882 E. A. Floyer Unexplored Baluchistan 245 There was a general nose-in-the-air, defiant kind of aspect.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) v. 144 At the sight, Kirstie grew more tall—Kirstie showed her classical profile, nose in air and nostril spread.
1901 R. Kipling Kim iii. 60 He cocked his nose in the air loftily and stepped across the narrow field-borders with great dignity.
1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Sept. 28/2 The US is suffering from English inegalitarianism: snobbishness, nose-in-the-air contempt for the uncouthness of the lower classes.
1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xliii. 379 He has..little patience with this mother with her nose in the air over tea bags her first day in the United States.
h. on the nose. (Cf. also (to bet (etc.)) on the nose at sense 1d.)
(a) With of: immediately before, on the eve of. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > immediately before
on the nose1681
1681 J. Lauder Hist. Notices (1848) 304 That they, on the nose of a Parliament, came so near the deciding on dubious elections.
(b) North American. Exactly on target; precisely on time; to the point. Cf. on the nail at nail n. Phrases 3.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb]
rightlyeOE
righteOE
evenOE
evenlya1225
redlyc1275
justicelya1375
justilya1375
justlya1375
redilya1375
trulya1375
properlya1382
precisec1392
preciselyc1392
truec1392
straitlya1395
leala1400
arightc1405
by linec1420
justlyc1425
featlya1450
rule-righta1450
to the letter?1495
exquisitely1526
evenliklya1530
very1530
absolutely1538
jump1539
just1568
accurately1581
punctually1581
jumplya1586
arights1596
just so1601
plumb1601
compassly1606
nicelya1616
squarely1626
justa1631
adequately1632
mathematicallya1638
critically1655
exquisitively1660
just1665
pointedly1667
faithfully1690
correctlya1704
jus1801
jest1815
jes1851
neat1875
cleanly1883
on the nose1883
smack-dab1892
spot on1920
forensically1974
1883 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 20 May 1/3 He hit the ball fairly on the nose, sending it clear to the right field fence.
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch vii. 144 The report went around the circuit that the Philadelphia club was stealing signals, because the batters were popping them all on the nose, but no one was able to discover the transmitter.
1943 New Yorker 30 Oct. 21/1 I'll meet you there happest twelve, but on the nose.
1944 W. C. Greet World Words p. v This book has been prepared in great haste. To be readily understood, and, in radio parlance, to be on the nose, were its prime requirements.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues ii. 37 ‘You were supposed to be out weeks ago,’ they told one girl. But I got out right on the nose at the end of four months.
1962 P. Gregory Like Tigress at Bay i. 14 ‘That's it,’ he said. ‘You've hit it right on the nose.’
1990 Times 2 Oct. 27/2 The group pays on the nose, or in advance, and allows extended credit.
(c) Australian slang. Offensive, distasteful; smelly.
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1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 49 Nose, on the: (said of things) disliked, offensive.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) vi. 86 ‘Christ! Alec,’ he complained. ‘This bait's a bit on the nose, ain't it?’ He spat over the side as the reek of fish-heads a week old..caught his stomach.
1953 D. Cusack Southern Steel 138 The beer's on the nose and the plonk 'd make a willy-wagtail fight an emu.
1974 Australian 12 Dec. 13 She renounced her Australian citizenship and swore everlasting loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. A bit on the nose, we think.
1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio xxi. 103 ‘It's the same as Herod's flu. Herod's causes mutations and miscarriages. By the way, that name..’ ‘Maybe a bit on the nose,’ Shawbeck said. ‘Who made it up?’
(d) Winemaking. To a person's sense of smell; as regards the smell.
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1973 J. M. Broadbent Wine Tasting 38 Although young-looking, there is an absence of raw, youthful, mouth-watering acidity on the nose.
1989 Wine Spectator 31 Aug. 5/3 (Buying Guide insert) Pungently smoky and peppery on the nose, soft and tannic on the palate.
1991 Wine Summer 29/3 This has very good chocolatey depth on the nose.
2000 Independent on Sunday 25 June (Wine Guide Suppl.) 4 On the nose there are beautiful aromatics of flowers, limes, guava and pear, all tinged with honey.
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(a) up to one's nose: so as to be almost completely immersed or buried (literal and figurative).
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1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 83 Pickl'd up to the very Nose in the Powdering-Tub of Sin and Salivation.
1743 Duke of Richmond Let. 30 Aug.–10 Sept. in Corr. Dukes of Richmond & Newcastle (1984) 122 The French have abandon'd the Speir back, butt entrench'd themselves up to the noses from Landau to Germesheim.
1816 J. Wolcot Farewell Odes in Works of Peter Pindar I. ii. 101 You were greas'd up to the nose, and eyes, Your cheeks all shining like a lantern's horn.
1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 30 Nov. (1993) III. 127 We shall go out all wrapped up to the noses, with a pruning hook to cut holly.
1984 G. McCaughrean Canterbury Tales (1988) 17 Isn't it bad enough to be traipsing through fog and rain and up to our noses in mud.
(b) slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). up your nose = up yours at up prep.2 3b. Similarly in various contemptuous, disparaging, and dismissive phrases, as shove it up your nose, etc. Cf. stick (also shove, etc.) it up your ass at ass n.2 Phrases 1b(a).
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1922 S. Anderson in E. J. O'Brien Best Stories of 1922 15 You can stick your colleges up your nose for all of me.
1974 M. Cherry On High Steel xv Shove it up your nose. I've done the best I could.
2000 Australian (Nexis) 24 Oct. 12 I have found an alternate bank which, presently at least, can accommodate my needs..—so it gives me much pleasure to say to the NAB [= National Australian Bank]: ‘up your nose.’
P4. Other phrases.
a. In various colloquial and allusive uses.Also (here's to the) skin off your nose: see skin n. Phrases 14b. no skin off one's nose: see skin n. Phrases 14a(a). to take pepper in the nose: see pepper n. 4b. to show one's nose: see show v. 12a.
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c1330 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Auch.) (1952) 208 Þe king him dede quic depose, Wiþ harm to his owen nose.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iv. 140 But he be cokewald ycald, kitte of my nose.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ciiv Pryde hath plucked the by the nose.
1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. Fvijv If she [sc. the Queen-mother] had not supported them, their noses had then kissed the ground.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Bijv They prooue so ridiculous.., that I am ready to stand on my nose.
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. B4 Tary, sir, tary, we want the length of your nose.
1632 Earl of Strafford in R. Browning & J. Forster Life (1892) App. ii. 301 The Commission of the Peace, (the instrument of terroure by which he pulled them on along with him by the noses).
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. i. 94 Seeing clearly to the length of its own nose, it is not paralysed.
1931 V. Woolf Waves 324 Spent as I am, and almost worn out with all this rubbing of my nose along the surface of things, even I, an elderly man..must take myself off.
1992 Economist 26 Dec. 73/3 Regular blue helmets were refused entrance or, once there, could barely stick their noses out of their barracks.
b. In comparisons. Frequently as plain as the nose on one's face, indicating that something is perfectly plain or obvious. Also ironically.
ΚΠ
c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 26 She will wurk so klōsly þerin, az it shalnot be somuch seen az A nōz in A mans fās.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 128 Oh Iest vnseene: inscrutible: inuisible, As a nose on a mans face, or a Wethercocke on a steeple.
1655 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 200 As plain as the nose on a mans face.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 60 'Tis as plain as the Nose in one's Face.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. v. xix. 351 The Gentleman..has made it as plain as the nose in one's face, if one did but understand him.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 157 It's as plain as the nose on your face for to see't.
1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes I. iii. 34 It is as plain as the nose in your face that there's your origin!
1909 A. Bierce Peaceful Expulsion in Coll. Wks. V. 342 'Tis plain as is the long, conspicuous nose Borne, ponderous and pendulous, between The elephant's remarkable eye-teeth.
1985 G. Benford Artifact v. ii. 295 Abe had to go through the dean, which meant that, plain as the nose on your face, people would start to horn in.
c. nose to nose: directly and closely facing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > opposite position > opposite [phrase] > face to face
neb to neblOE
face to (earlier and, for) face1535
front to fronta1585
on (also upon) the square?1611
nose to nose1732
1732 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 382 You sit down quite close as ever you can, nose to nose.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 226 In contact inconvenient, nose to nose.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxi. 283 The two parties would often meet nose to nose in the same street.
a1901 R. W. Buchanan Sweet Nancy (1914) I. 24 (stage direct.) They are facing each other closely, nose to nose.
1991 G. Ehrlich Islands, Universe, Home ii. 19 I imagine the equatorial sash, now nose-to-nose with the sun, sizzling like a piece of bacon, and the earth slowly tilting.
d. nose to tail: one behind another and very close together, now esp. of motor vehicles in heavy traffic; so nose-to-tail adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > density of traffic
nose to taila1834
light1848
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adverb] > density of traffic
nose to taila1834
bumper-to-bumper1901
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) II. 986 Nose to tail, with this gipsy Comes, black as a porpus, The diabolus ipse.
1842 Southern Lit. Messenger Oct. 660/1 Imagine a pointer circling in search of the hole of a ground-squirrel, with a young one following, nose to tail.
1891 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 500/2 We passed..water-wheel boats anchored in the current, nose to tail, in a long line.
a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ix. 59 A procession of lorries, nose to tail,..were tearing down the road.
1960 Guardian 7 June 6/1 The accustomed queues of nose-to-tail traffic on main roads.
1974 ‘C. Fremlin’ By Horror Haunted 48 The nose-to-tail crawl along the motorway.
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xv. 164 To avoid churning up fields..tank squadrons sat nose to tail, seldom allowed off the road.
e. nose first: with the nose, esp. that of an aircraft, foremost.
ΚΠ
1858 S. C. Eastman White Mountain Guide Bk. 15 We must..watch the foam sweep underneath like a race-horse—the backwater from each side overlaying the central current, so that it rushes in wedge shape.., nose first, through the gorge.
1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 59 Kaa looked carefully till he found a discoloured crack in the marble tracery.., and then..sent home half a dozen full-power, smashing blows, nose-first.
1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 105 Porpoise, doing a, said when a submarine dives down nose first at a sharp angle.
1987 D. Brin Uplift War 267 The little spaceship..plunging nose first into the marshy river mouth.
2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Jan. 29/1 Unless the plane is a ‘tail dragger’, the soft gravel will make it land nose first into the ground.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive.
nosebone n.
ΚΠ
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 20 (MED) He [sc. the occipital bone] sprad forþ vndir þe brayn..and in þat place he is clepid þe noseboon.
1836 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 126 520 Many..show some similarity in their outward form and structure to the Ape; in the greater size of the bones of the face,..the flat form of the nose-bones, the projecting and strong lower jaw.
1925 Sci. Monthly Mar. 335 The nasal or nose bones terminate above the line connecting the lower margins of the eye orbits.
1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry iv. 95/1 [In Anglo-Nubian goats] it is not acceptable to have any twisting of the jaw or nosebones.
nose breadth n.
ΚΠ
1657 C. Hoole tr. M. Cordier School-colloquies ii. 98/1 You are deceived your nose breadth, for we are repeating together.
1903 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 33 36 The ratios of head-breadth to head-length, of nose-breadth to nose-length,..etc.,..have been determined upon individuals or skeletons from most parts of the globe.
1991 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 20 268 Anthropometric traits include: head circumference,..nose breadth,..and mouth breadth.
† nose-carbuncle n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila i. xx. 4 When our Nose-carbuncles, like Link-boyes, blaze before 'um.
† nose-cloth n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief
coverchiefc1305
cloutc1380
muckender1420
napkin1436
handkerchief1530
handkercher1531
mocket1537
wiper1587
nose-cloth1589
pocket handkerchief1645
handcloth1676
mouchoira1685
pocket-clotha1704
wipe1708
volet1789
kerchief1814
snotter1823
lachrymatory1825
nose-rag1840
nose-wiper1840
sweat-rag1843
lachrymary1854
sneezer1857
stook1859
snottinger1864
snot-rag1888
hanky1895
penwiper1902
paper handkerchief1907
nose-wipe1919
snitch-rag1940
paper hankie1959
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. Av Hee made his moist nosecloth, the pausing intermedium, twixt euerie nappe.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xi. 73 This luxury..was used only as ‘a sweat-rag’, and not as ‘a nose-cloth’.
1893 B. Tuckerman Peter Stuyvesant 133 Hannen Barentzen was sentenced..for stealing three half beavers, two nose-cloths, and a pair of linen stockings.
† nose gristle n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > septum
nose gristleOE
crete?1541
nose-bridge1572
bridle1578
septum1615
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 168 Internasus uel interfinium, nosegristle.
c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 4* Nes tendroun et narie, Nose gristul and nose-thurles.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 3 The space betwixt eye-brue and the nose grissles.
nose hair n.
ΚΠ
1960 G. Corso Happy Birthday of Death 16 Just a moustache... O even a nose hair, an ingrown hair, and I'd tread beauty a wicked foot.
1998 GQ Aug. 27/2 A few columns, such as the one about how much it hurts to pull out your own nose hair, come from personal experience.
† nose-intonation n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1774 ‘J. Collier’ Musical Trav. 22 I waited on the..clerk of the parish, who..had the finest nasality, or nose-intonation, that ever was given to David's psalms.
nose-jam n.
ΚΠ
1919 J. Joyce Ulysses viii. [Lestrygonians] in Little Rev. Jan. 43 Sheepsnouts bloodypapered snivelling nosejam on sawdust.
† nose-nail n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > nose and lip ornaments > [noun]
nose-jewel1611
nose-ring1652
nose-ornament1695
lip-piece1796
labret1831
nose-nail1862
lip-ring1866
labretifery1884
lip-plug1894
bullring1992
1862 M. E. Rogers Domest. Life Palestine 381 These nose-nails are worn by the younger girls, and are very fashionable.
nose-ornament n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > nose and lip ornaments > [noun]
nose-jewel1611
nose-ring1652
nose-ornament1695
lip-piece1796
labret1831
nose-nail1862
lip-ring1866
labretifery1884
lip-plug1894
bullring1992
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. v. 243 So much of this..Nose-Ornament.
1853 Harper's Mag. Dec. 120/2 However ridiculous nose-ornaments may appear to our civilised ladies of the East, I certainly thought they were an advantage in the present instance.
1923 Sci. Monthly June 615 Instead of lip and nose ornaments and tattooing, we ornament our clothing.
1991 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 106 A copper nose-ornament from a late urn burial.
nose peg n.
ΚΠ
1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 311 It is at this time that the Tutnurring are invested with the belt of manhood, the kilt,..nose-peg, necklace, in fact with the full male dress.
1935 H. H. Finlayson Red Centre xii. 118 The nose-peg..is a hardwood cylinder expanding to a disk at one end and a smaller pointed cone at the other... The young camel is thrown, the cartilage of the left nostril pierced.., and the peg pushed through the wound.
2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. (Features section) She jokes that her house is so untidy that if the people from Hello! magazine came ‘they'd have to wear nose pegs.’
nose-pin n.
ΚΠ
1887 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 16 160 The nose pins adorned with shells now in use in the Admiralty Islands.
1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) viii. 245 We wear gold nosepins and bangles to show that we are married.
nose-rein n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > reins
rein1297
bridle reina1382
bridea1425
linkc1450
leading-rein1483
quinsell1598
bearing rein1790
bridoon rein1795
check-reina1809
ribbon1813
ribands1815
bit-rein1833
check-piece1833
nose-rein1844
lines1852
reinage1863
check1868
overdraw1870
single line1875
overcheck1963
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 694 The colt..should be led out to walk..by the nose-rein of the cavesson.
1875 C. J. Andersson Notes of Trav. in S. W. Afr. 302 Axel's ox ran away with and threw him, breaking girths, nose-rein, etc.
nose ridge n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > bridge
bridgea1425
nose ridge1656
1656 Twa Sisters ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1882) I. i. 126/2 What did he doe with her nose-ridge? Unto his violl he made him a bridge.
1985 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 45 41 In the case of the taotie mask, this image consisted of two eyes in their sockets, a nose ridge, two nostrils and lower jaws.
nose tip n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > end
nese enda1425
nose tip1572
nose-end1611
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Nose-tippe, or the ball of the nose.
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 782 Smoking and leering, with tongue-lolling cheek, finger-tip and nose-tip gnostically brought together.
1927 W. de la Mare Told Again 246 The Fox then brushed himself nose-tip to stern with his brush.
1994 Dog World June 54/3 Roman nose: A nose whose bridge is so comparatively high as to form a slightly convex line from forehead to nose tip.
† nose ulcer n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Index Nose ulcers.
† nose vein n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein
middle veina1398
portaa1398
saphena1398
funisa1400
sciaticaa1400
guidesc1400
haemorrhoidc1400
salvatellac1400
liver veina1425
median?a1425
mesaraic?a1425
sciatic?a1425
venal artery?a1425
sciat1503
organal vein1523
axillar?1541
weeping vein1543
port-vein1586
lip-vein1598
nose vein1598
sciatic vein1598
cephalic vein1599
hollow vein1605
jugular1615
scapulary1615
subclavian vein1615
umbilical vessel1615
basilica1625
porter-vein1625
neck vein1639
garter-vein1656
matricious vein1656
sacred vein1656
subclavicular1656
subclavial1664
vertebral1718
portal vein1765
cava1809
satellite vein1809
brachial1859
innominate vein1866
precaval1866
postcava1882
precava1882
postcaval1891
Vesalian vein1891
sciatic1892
subcardinal1902
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 29/4 The sixt is the nose vayne, in the middest of the end of the nose, betweene the two gristles or cartilages.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Vein Nasal vein, the nose vein, seated between the nostrils.
nose weight n.
ΚΠ
1959 ‘Motor’ Man. (ed. 36) xiii. 270 A caravan with a heavy nose weight tows more steadily than one without.
1989 Mail on Sunday Camping & Caravanning 63/1 Check..that the car rear tyre pressures are increased..to take the additional load imposed on the rear end by the caravan noseweight.
b. Objective.
(a)
† nose-borer n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > nose and lip ornaments > [noun] > wearer of
nose-borer1762
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 7 Your nose-borers, feet-swathers, tooth-stainers, eye brow pluckers.
nose-maker n.
ΚΠ
a1879 Ld. Lawrence in R. B. Smith Life Ld. lawrence (1883) I. 320 The least I could do was to summon the nose-maker, and let him try his skill.
nose mender n.
ΚΠ
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxxviii. 181 This Ambrose Paræus was chief surgeon and nose-mender to Francis the ninth.
1838 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches 43 He would..deserve a salary from all the nose menders about town, whether natural bone-setters or gristle-tinkers by commission.
nose-painter n.
ΚΠ
1807 Salmagundi 13 Feb. 49 Agreeably painted and mottled by mr. John Frost, nose-painter-general.
nose-puller n.
ΚΠ
1712 J. Heywood in Spectator No. 268. ⁋2 A thing that..renders the Nose-puller odious.
1992 Business Rev. Weekly (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Feb. 28 Making the situation more bizarre, BIL retains a 40% shareholding in GPG, its potential nose-puller, and Brierley operates from BIL's Sydney office.
† nose-slitter n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 32 Common stabbers, Nose-slitters, Ally-lurking Villains!
† nose-twitcher n. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 32 Nasturtium is a name given to all these biting plants; each being a nasus tortus, or nose-twitcher.
† nose-wringer n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 268. ¶2 One of these Nose-wringers overhearing him, pinched him by the nose.
(b)
nose-blowing n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1774 J. Bentham Corr. 4 Mar. (1968) I. 177 Plagued for some little time past with coughs and noseblowings and such like petty ailments.
1864 J. S. Le Fanu Uncle Silas I. xxiv. 292 The boisterous nose-blowing that suddenly resounded from the passage.
1991 Mind 100 77 I may actually have sped my hand towards the CONFESS button suddenly while feigning to be fully occupied with nose-blowing.
nose-making n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1829 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 535 Taliacotius has the credit of bringing the art of nose-making into fashion.
1839 J. L. Motley Morton's Hope II. xiii. 6 Besides these, there were present two or three painters, a sculptor, half a dozen professors, and a nose-making doctor.
nose-painting n. and adj.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 27 What three things does Drinke especially prouoke?.. Marry, Sir, Nose-painting, Sleepe, and Vrine.
2003 Hindu (Electronic ed.) 15 Jan. His first ‘nose-painting’ was a picture of Lord Ganesha.
nose pulling n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1807 Salmagundi 14 Aug. 265 They should be guaranteed from all dangers of..nose-pulling, whipping-post, or prosecution for libels.
1990 Amer. Hist. Rev. 95 68 Nose pulling was just another, more aggressive, form of accusing a man of lying.
nose-slitting n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1645 R. Baillie Dissuasive from Errours of Time Pref. 7 Their [sc. Episcopal Courts] prisons, their fines, their pillories, their nose-slittings, their ear-cuttings, their cheek-burnings, did but hold down the flame to break out in season with the greater rage.
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. 70 The..practice of..pilloring, gagging, ear marking, nose slitting.
1873 Galaxy Sept. 405/2 A mutual nose-slitting organization outlasts dynasties.
1988 Slavic Rev. 47 115 It contains a slew of questionable or unprovable statements..blinding and nose-slitting in Russia were of Mongol provenance.
(c)
nose-pull v. (passive in quot.)
ΚΠ
1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip xxvii, in Cornhill Mag. Jan. 11 His old comrade..whom he had insulted and nose-pulled.
† nose-wring n. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 29 Cresses tooke the name in Latine Nasturtium, a narium tormento, as a man would say, Nose-wring, because it will make one writh and shrink vp his nosthrils.
c. Locative and instrumental.
(a)
† nose-belled adj. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 60 Let vs rather Chuse Long nose-bell'd Horses, such as Children vse.
† nose-borne adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1611 J. Donne in T. Coryate Crudities sig. d3 A prosperous nose-borne wenne, which sometimes growes.
† nose-grown adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Avantagé Bien avantagé en nez, nosed with aduantage, well nose-growne.
(b)
nose-dropping adj. rare
ΚΠ
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 34 Nose-dropping, rhewme-destilling, driueling mouth.
1905 J. Joyce Let. 19 Jan. (1966) II. 78 O, blind, snivelling, nose-dropping, calumniated Christ.
(c)
nose-lead v. (only in passive)
ΚΠ
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iii. 274 We have been nose-led by some, whose ends have been to end our loyalty, and to plot the ruine of him who hath kept them and this Nation from ruine ever hitherto.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. viii. 201 I will not be thus nose-led by him.
1945 R. K. Narayan Eng. Teacher i. 18 The poor fellow settled as auditor in Hyderabad and was nose-led by his wife.
2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Apr. 13 The governments of the Western world, nose-led by their bankers, have studiously ignored the proposals of C. H. Douglas.
C2.
† nose-ape n. Obsolete the proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus; cf. nose monkey n.
ΚΠ
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation II. xxii. 292 The still living Nose-apes and Holy-apes (Semnopithecus).
nose-bridge n. = bridge n.1 10a; also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > septum
nose gristleOE
crete?1541
nose-bridge1572
bridle1578
septum1615
the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > other parts of spectacles
bow1711
frame1729
rims1766
earpiece1824
side glass1830
nosepiece1866
temple1877
nose1895
nose-bridge1923
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > earthenware vessel > specific types of handles
ledge-handle1891
trumpet-lug1937
nose-bridge1939
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Nose-bridge, or the particion whiche standeth between the twoo nosethrylles.
1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay x. 156 Shell rims with gold ear-pieces and gold nose-bridge.
1939 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 3) xiv. 245 In the pottery we might distinguish:..carinated cups and other vessels with nose-bridge handles.
1989 M. Amis London Fields xx. 393 So only the lonely forgave their debts..a crushed nosebridge here, a mangled earhole there.
1995 Seton Catal. Autumn–Winter 18 The one-piece polycarbonate lens has a moulded nose-bridge and offers optimum eye protection.
† noseburn tree n. Caribbean Obsolete rare the bonace bark tree, Daphnopsis americana subsp. cumingii, whose bark is said to sting the nose of anyone smelling it; also called burn-nose (bark).
ΚΠ
1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 786 Noseburn tree: Daphnopsis tenuifolia.
nose candy n. North American slang a drug that is inhaled through the nose; spec. cocaine.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > morphine, cocaine, or heroin > cocaine
cocaine1874
coke1908
happy dust1912
candy1925
nose candy1925
gold dust1931
Charley1935
girl1953
blow1971
rock1973
product1983
rock cocaine1984
crack1985
1925 D. Hammett in Black Mask Nov. 156 Since then Dummy had become an errand boy for whoever would stake him the price of his necessary nose-candy.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 33/4 The movie omitted the morphine and left the cocaine because nose candy is the trendy drug.
1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride lv. 451 A twelfth bag was open beside the phone. Not nose candy either: heroin, and ninety per cent pure.
nose clip n. a clip for preventing water from entering the nose of a person underwater.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > swimming > swimming equipment
bladder1623
paddle1823
scaphander1825
swimming-bladder1858
water wing1901
wing1908
nose clip1919
armband1927
flipper1945
fin1960
1919 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 91 47 The main objections were..against the nose-clip and mouthpiece, which latter besides being painful to the gums in some cases, gives rise to excessive salivation in all.
1990 Which? Aug. 438/1 The masks that passed all have a nose clip and a twin head strap that holds the mask close to the face and prevents it inadvertently slipping out of position.
† nose-compasses n. Obsolete eyeglasses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles
spectaclec1386
a pair of spectacles1423
ocularies?a1425
barnaclea1566
eye1568
sight-glasses1605
glass eye1608
prospective glass1616
sights1619
prospectivea1635
nose-compasses1654
glass1660
lunettes1681
peeper1699
eyeglass1760
specs1807
winker1816
gig-lamps1853
nose-riders1875
window1896
cheaters1920
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. v. 17 She read without +++++Spectacles, and could..see lost pins without the help of a paire of Nose-compasses.
nose door n. Aeronautics a forward-facing cargo door in the nose of a transport aircraft.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage > door
nose door1960
1960 Aeroplane 98 521/2 Major assembly has begun on the first AW 660 for the R.A.F. This version has a 100,000-lb. gross weight, ‘beaver-tail’ rear doors, and no nose doors.
2001 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 27 Aug. 51 The aircraft..can carry extremely long and ousized payloads through use of its nose door.
nose-drive n. now historical a form of rocket construction in which the engines are positioned at the front end.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun] > types of rocket engine > positioning of engines at front
nose-drive1937
1937 Discovery Sept. 270/2 First he [sc. R. H. Goddard] directed his attention to the so-called ‘nose-drive’ construction.
1947 W. Ley Rockets & Space Trav. (1948) v. 134 The gases were to be ejected through a system of nozzles at the top of the rocket; the nozzles were to pull the rocket upward... This system, known as ‘nose drive’.., offered a great number of advantages.
1995 D. Piszkiewicz Nazi Rocketeers 18 It was a ‘nose-drive’ machine: the rocket motor, encased in a bullet-shaped jacket filled with cooling water, was at the extreme front end.
nose-driven adj. now historical (of a rocket) having nose drive.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [adjective] > types of rocket
solid-fuelled1891
needle-nosed1931
solid1949
nose-driven1952
liquid-fuelled1960
posigrade1960
strap-on1966
1952 E. Burgess Rocket Propulsion v. 131 It has been stated that nose-driven rockets..are inherently more stable than those in which the motor is situated at the extreme rear.
nose drops n. a medication intended to be administered as drops into the nose; also in form nose-drop in attributive use.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > drops > [noun]
drops1726
ear-drops1839
eye drop1938–9
nose drops1938
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the nose
nose drops1938
1938 Far Eastern Surv. 7 202/1 The income received by the drug trade..must be large to judge by the enthusiasm with which the average American uses nose drops and sprays.
1970 Women's Househ. July 12/1 When he needed nose drops badly he would come over to one of us and stick up his nose.
1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 45 He had begun his experiment by making a pale yellow solution of phenolphthalein, which he put into nose-drop bottle.
† nose-fish n. Obsolete rare a batfish, Ogcocephalus corniger (family Ogcocephalidae), which has a long slender rostrum.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > member of family Ogcocephalidae (sea-bat)
water bat1681
sea-bat1756
nose-fish1828
sea-unicorna1832
batfish1861
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Nose-Fish, a fish of the lether-mouthed kind, with a broad flat snout; called also broad-snout.
nose fly n. †(a) a fly that irritates the nostrils of horses (obsolete); (b) (more fully sheep nose fly) the sheep nostril fly or botfly, Oestrus ovis, which deposits its larvae in the nostrils of sheep and similar animals.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > unspecified > parasite > that stings horses
nose fly1775
1775 G. White Jrnl. 31 July (1970) viii. 108 Horses at plow so teized by flies as to be quite frantic... The people say it is the nose-fly that distracts them so.
1839 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms (new ed.) Nose-fly, a very fine, delicately made fly, which gets into horses' noses, and stinging them, frequently causes them to run away.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xvii. 433 The sheep nose fly, (Estrus ovis), deposits living larvae in the nostrils of sheep and occasionally of goats.
1962 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xx. 975 ‘Grub-in-the-head’, ‘staggers’, sheep bot, or sheep nose fly.
nose-fuse n. a fuse located in the nose of a shell or bomb.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > fuse
fuse1647
fusee1704
fuzze1802
nose-fuse1888
cheesa stick1906
device1931
Primacord1937
time pencila1944
1888 Times 2 Oct. 3/2 The shape of the heads [of shells] which were suitable only for a nose fuse.
1933 Aeroplane 4 Oct. 613/1 The usual type is an H.E. shell fitted with a sensitive nose fuse.
2001 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 21 Nov. a9 A nose-fuse detonates the bomb above ground, preventing the energy from being absorbed in a crater.
nose gear n. Aeronautics landing gear situated in the nose of an aircraft.
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1959 F. D. Adams Aeronaut. Dict. 118/1 Nose gear, on some airplanes, the part of the landing gear which is situated at the nose.
1968 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Nov. 9/6 The nose gear of an Alaska Airlines 727 fanjet was severed Saturday afternoon when the plane collided with a moose.
2001 Denver Post (Nexis) 21 Oct. b2 If the nose gear did not deploy, he would not be able to stop the plane without using the barrier.
nose glasses n. U.S. = pince-nez n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > pince-nez
bridge spectacles1830
pince-nez1866
nippers1876
nose glasses1890
nose-nippers1895
nose pinch1896
1890 Cent. Dict. Nose-glasses.
1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 22 He said ‘Whom’, and wore Nose Glasses.
1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan Oct. 64/1 To look at Judge Henry G. Blake, with his..nose glasses.
1971 Lebende Sprachen 16 11/2 US nose glasses—BE/US pince-nez.
nose guard n. (a) a protective covering for the nose; (b) American Football = middle guard n. (b) at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a; cf. nose tackle n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player
side tackle1809
nose guard1852
rusher1877
goalkicker1879
quarterback1879
runner1880
quarter1883
full back1884
left guard1884
snap-back1887
snapper-back1887
running back1891
tackle1891
defensive end1897
guard1897
interferer1897
receiver1897
defensive back1898
defensive tackle1900
safety man1901
ball carrier1902
defensive lineman1902
homebrew1903
offensive lineman1905
lineman1907
returner1911
signal caller1915
rover1916
interference1920
punt returner1926
pass rusher1928
tailback1930
safety1931
blocker1935
faker1938
scatback1946
linesman1947
flanker1953
platoon player1953
corner-back1955
pulling guard1955
split end1955
return man1957
slot-back1959
strong safety1959
wide receiver1960
line-backer1961
pocket passer1963
tight end1963
run blocker1967
wideout1967
blitzer1968
1852 C. M. Yonge Cameos xiii, in Monthly Packet Feb. 120 William is seen, raising his helmet by its nose-guard, and looking exceedingly fierce as he rallies his men.
1883 Harper's June 62/1 The round basnet with movable nose-guard and dependent curtain of chain-mail is still made here exactly as it was worn by the Paynim host in the time of the Crusades.
1966 Sporting News 22 Oct. 37/1 Gossett is especially proud of LaGrones's starring role in his movies because at ‘nose’ guard, usually defenders are lost in the trenches of line play.
1992 R. Rankin Suburban Bk. Dead (1993) (BNC) 220 Sure, I was standing here with a hole the size of an elephant's nose guard in my four-set clause.
2001 Orlando Sentinel (Nexis) 11 Nov. k10 Crystal River defensive back Clayton Trenary and nose guard Jason Boyd of unbeaten Wesley Chapel were named the top defensive players.
† nose gunpowder n. Obsolete snuff.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun]
sneeze1632
sneezing1648
smutchin1650
snush1671
snuff1683
nose gunpowder1706
pulvil1706
sneeshing1714
macouba1827
dip1853
snoose1912
snous1962
1706 E. Baynard in J. Floyer Anc. Ψυχρολουσια Revived (rev. ed.) ii. 12 A charge of Nose Gun-Powder, Snuff 'twixt Finger and Thumb.
nose hangar n. now chiefly historical a hangar that provides shelter for the front of an aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > hangar > for front of plane
nose hangar1947
1947 Beaver Sept. 20 (caption) The first winter nose hangar and the first machine at Hudson.
1970 R. Paterson & J. Paterson Cranberry Portage xiv. 87 A great deal of time was spent warming aircraft engines with roaring fire-pots inside the canvas nose-hangars.
nose-heaviness n. a tendency for the nose of an aircraft to drop relative to the tail; (in a motor vehicle) handling that suggests that there is more weight at the front.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [noun] > attitude in relation to line of travel > nose-heavy
nose-heaviness1919
1919 A. Klemin Text-bk. Aeronaut. Engin. xv. 178 The down stream from the propellers..is said to increase the safety from the point of view of longitudinal balance, giving tail heaviness with power, and nose heaviness without power.
1930 R. Duncan Stunt Flying iii. 26 Nose-heaviness, or tail-heaviness, can be corrected by adjusting the horizontal stabilizer.
1959 Times 8 Sept. 13/6 There is no feeling of nose-heaviness, and the steering does not have any tricks on corners.
2001 Straits Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. 1 Not as quick as the 2.7, it compensates with even better handling balance and no trace of nose heaviness.
nose-heavy adj. (of an aircraft) having a tendency for the nose to drop relative to the tail; (of a motor vehicle) handling as if there were more weight were at the front.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [adjective] > nose-down or nose-heavy
nose-heavy1914
nose-down1916
1914 S. L. Walkden How to understand Aeroplanes ii. 5 This ‘front-heavy,’ or ‘nose-heavy’ machine..is devoid of a self-righting effect.
1996 Adv. Driving Milestones (Inst. Adv. Motorists) Winter 18/1 The weight of that six-cylinder engine under the bonnet made the C more nose-heavy when cornering.
nose-herb n. a sweet-scented herb or flower.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > nosegay
tuzzy-muzzyc1440
tyte tustc1440
nosegayc1500
tutty1578
nose-herba1616
wisp1626
pot-pourri1749
sachet1855
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 18 They are not hearbes you knaue, they are nose-hearbes . View more context for this quotation
1935 H. Beston Herbs & Earth 9 Nose herbs, pot herbs, salad herbs, and healing herbs.
1964 Listener 24 Sept. 485/1 Any plant which smells good, from Madonna lilies to the white arabis, could be called a nose-herb.
† nose-hold n. Obsolete a device for pinching the nose (in quot., figurative).
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society > authority > control > [noun] > means of control > a hold upon
holda1400
tie1619
roota1715
purchase1790
nose-hold1797
twist1880
1797 Monthly Mag. xlvi. 215 Prejudice is the nose-hold for certain purposes, of the otherwise intractable.
† nose-holl n. Obsolete = nose-hole n.
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?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 7v Þe juis þere of done in þe nose holles doþe a-waye evill vmeris of þe hede.
† nose-hook n. Obsolete a hook for leading an ox by a nose-ring.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > equipment
salec1299
salebandc1299
shacklec1460
marking stone1534
low bell1578
baikiea1598
nose-hook1778
sjambok1790
shangy1808
cow-bell1809
ox frame1844
bullwhip1848
humbug1850
stock-whip1852
bull-whacker1858
cattle-bell1872
bull-whack1885
leading-staff1886
bullock-bell1911
bull-holder1940
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 4 Aug. 1775 Hoed the late-planted cabbages with one ox and the nose-hook.
nose horn n. †(a) a beetle that has a horn on the head, such as a rhinoceros beetle (obsolete); (b) a horn on the nose of an animal, esp. an animal with multiple horns such as a ceratopsian dinosaur.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > with horn on nose
nose horn1658
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1008 We have seen four kindes of Nose-horns, the chiefest and greatest of all lives in India, it is very black, it hath a nose on its face crooked horn'd like to the stern of a ship.
1897 Cent. Mag. Nov. 21/1 One of the species, Agathaumas silvestris.., is distinguished by its nose-horn pointing forward; another, Agathaumas sphenocerus.., by its nose-horn pointing straight up.
1996 Science 18 Oct. 367/1 Ceratopsians evolved into two major lineages: the centrosaurs, generally with shorter frills, large nose horns, and small eye horns.., and the chasmosaurs, who tended to sport larger frills, smaller nose horns, and larger eye horns.
nose job n. colloquial (originally U.S.) an operation involving rhinoplasty or cosmetic surgery on a person's nose; also figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > improving the face surgically > an operation to
facelift1926
nose job1947
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > fixation and repair operations > [noun] > repair > cosmetic > on specific parts
labioplasty1896
face-lifting1912
facelift1926
nose job1947
mammoplasty1957
nip and tuck1977
microdermabrasion1993
1947 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 18 Aug. 17/1 Sheila Bond, dancing star of ‘Street Scene’, had to have a nose job done on her nose job.
1963 T. Pynchon V. iv. 95 Chapter four. In which Esther gets a nose job.
1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 11/1 Cosmetic plastic surgery..will cost you about $1,000 for a nose job;..$1,000 for an eye lift [etc.].
1996 Woman's Day (Sydney) 3 June 39/1 It looks as if she went on a surgery binge, with..collagen injections of the lips, a facial peel and a nose job.
nose-leaf n. a fleshy leaf-shaped structure on the nose of certain bats, used in the emission of echolocation pulses.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Microchiroptera > member of family Megadermatidae > parts of
leaf1819
nose-leaf1837
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 22/1 Nose-leaf simple, solitary.
1901 Amer. Naturalist 35 562 Muzzle and chin: Arrangement of nose leaf, horseshoe, etc...nearly as in the large H. armiger.
1994 Harper's Mag. Sept. 48/2 These particular bats had evolved highly elaborate nose leaves.., which allowed them to focus their echoways transmissions in a narrow beam.
† nose-leafed adj. Obsolete rare (of a bat) = leaf-nosed adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [adjective] > belonging to suborder Microchiroptera > belonging to family Phyllostomidae or leaf-nosed
leaf-nosed1827
phyllostomatous1858
phyllostomous1858
phyllostomine1866
glossophagine1884
nose-leafed1884
1884 Standard Nat. Hist. V. 173 The Phyllostomines are those nose-leafed bats which have a long and narrow muzzle, a tongue of moderate length.
† noseman n. Obsolete a man of a supposed race having only a nose and no mouth (see quot.).
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1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. P3v Plinies Nosemen (mouthles men) surnam'd, Whose breathing nose supply'd Mouths absency.
† nose monkey n. Obsolete the proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus; cf. nose-ape n.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > subfamily Colobinae > genus Nasalis (proboscis-monkey)
proboscis monkey1793
kahau1840
proboscisa1849
nose monkey1883
1883 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 88 The newly born Nose Monkey is a most extraordinary object.
nose net n. a net fastened over a horse's nose and mouth, e.g. to stop head-shaking or to keep flies off.
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1839 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms (new ed.) at Nose-fly Nose-bags or nets are used to protect the horses' noses.
1883 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 6 Jan. 407/2 He calls it a ‘nose net’. It consists of an ordinary bag net, just large enough to encircle the muzzle of a horse... The effect..is to make a horse keep his mouth shut and..to prevent him pulling.
1999 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 27 June (Travel section) 1 There are horse shoes and collars, ox goads and yokes and nose nets used to shoo flies.
nose-nippers n. = pince-nez n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > pince-nez
bridge spectacles1830
pince-nez1866
nippers1876
nose glasses1890
nose-nippers1895
nose pinch1896
1895 J. Davidson Old Aberdeenshire Ministers 26 The Aberdeen Journal, which he read aloud..in a loud monotone, nasalised by the light grip of a large pair of nose-nippers worn low.
1949 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xiv. 175 He..looked at me over his nose-nippers.
nose paint n. slang intoxicating liquor; (also) reddening of the nose caused by habitual drinking.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]
drink1042
liquor1340
bousea1350
cidera1382
dwale1393
sicera1400
barrelc1400
strong drinkc1405
watera1475
swig1548
tipple1581
amber1598
tickle-brain1598
malt pie1599
swill1602
spicket1615
lap1618
John Barleycornc1625
pottle1632
upsy Englisha1640
upsy Friese1648
tipplage1653
heartsease1668
fuddle1680
rosin1691
tea1693
suck1699
guzzlea1704
alcohol1742
the right stuff1748
intoxicant1757
lush1790
tear-brain1796
demon1799
rum1799
poison1805
fogram1808
swizzle1813
gatter1818
wine(s) and spirit(s)1819
mother's milkc1821
skink1823
alcoholics1832
jough1834
alky1844
waipiro1845
medicine1847
stimulant1848
booze1859
tiddly1859
neck oil1860
lotion1864
shrab1867
nose paint1880
fixing1882
wet1894
rabbit1895
shicker1900
jollop1920
mule1920
giggle-water1929
rookus juice1929
River Ouse1931
juice1932
lunatic soup1933
wallop1933
skimish1936
sauce1940
turps1945
grog1946
joy juice1960
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > swelling of face > disorders of nose
copper-nose1609
rhinitis1829
rhinophyma1871
nose paint1880
sinusitis1896
rhinosinusitis1908
rhinosporidiosis1910
allergic rhinitis1922
1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado (1881) xi. 158 We saw..a sign, in which a name which I have never encountered elsewhere was given to stimulating beverages. This sign was ‘Nose-paint and Lunch’.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 586 A strong suspicion of nosepaint about the nasal appendage.
1988 Sports Illustr. (Nexis) 18 July 56 I've got a bit of business in a while, but would you join me for some nose paint while I'm waiting?
nose paste n. = nose putty n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > make-up > types of
blackface1847
crape hair1866
spirit gum1871
brownface1913
wet-white1922
glycerine tear1934
white-face1947
nose putty1950
nose paste1951
redface1954
yellowface1959
1951 N. Marsh Opening Night vii. 156 One cardboard box containing false hair, rouge, substance labelled ‘nose paste’.
1961 W. P. Bowman & R. H. Ball Theatre Lang. 233 Nose paste, a plastic substance used to alter the appearance of an actor's nose, chin, etc.
nose pinch n. †(a) = pince-nez n. (obsolete); (b) = nose clip n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > pince-nez
bridge spectacles1830
pince-nez1866
nippers1876
nose glasses1890
nose-nippers1895
nose pinch1896
1896 Punch 4 Apr. 160/2 The tall, meagre females..in abbreviated hair and a nose-pinch.
1986 N.Y. Post 9 July 15 (advt.) Scorpion swim mask..with..nose pinch.
nose print n. an impression made on a surface by an animal's nose, often used as a means of identification.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > [noun] > nose print of animal
nose print1925
1925 Sci. Monthly May 487 The squirrel had plugged it [sc. a burrow] from the inside first and then had undertaken to make the job more complete by tamping it on the outside. The inside of the plug was concave and showed signs of nose prints.
1990 Dogworld Aug. 35/1 The identification of all animals either by tattooing or, in the case of dogs, the option of nose prints.
nose printing n. the process of making a nose print for identification purposes.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > [noun] > nose print of animal > nose-printing
nose printing1939
1939 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Sept. 15/2 A plan for nation~wide identification of dogs by ‘nose printing’ to eliminate ‘dognapping’.
1989 Daily Tel. 24 June (Weekend Suppl.) p. ii/6 Wood Green Animal Shelter, which runs the biggest pet registration scheme..recently tried out noseprinting.
nose putty n. a putty-like substance used to alter the shape of an actor's nose, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > make-up > types of
blackface1847
crape hair1866
spirit gum1871
brownface1913
wet-white1922
glycerine tear1934
white-face1947
nose putty1950
nose paste1951
redface1954
yellowface1959
1950 H. Nelms Play Production xx. 242 Nose putty is the most common material for actually changing the shape of the face.
1960 A. Christie Adventure of Christmas Pudding 223 Why did I feel..I was talking to..an actor playing a part!.. What did I see..the beaked nose (faked with that useful substance, nose putty), [etc.].
1999 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 17 June The corrupt detective is played by Welles with nose putty, extra girth and a voice like drunken thunder.
nose-rag n. slang a handkerchief.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief
coverchiefc1305
cloutc1380
muckender1420
napkin1436
handkerchief1530
handkercher1531
mocket1537
wiper1587
nose-cloth1589
pocket handkerchief1645
handcloth1676
mouchoira1685
pocket-clotha1704
wipe1708
volet1789
kerchief1814
snotter1823
lachrymatory1825
nose-rag1840
nose-wiper1840
sweat-rag1843
lachrymary1854
sneezer1857
stook1859
snottinger1864
snot-rag1888
hanky1895
penwiper1902
paper handkerchief1907
nose-wipe1919
snitch-rag1940
paper hankie1959
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. ii. 23 Tickle, tickle goes my boscis agin, and I had to stop to sarch my pocket for my nose-rag.
1895 New Weekly 5 Jan. 7 Waauvin' his nooas-rag lahke mad.
1953 S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March xiii. 307 Those bursts of blood on my noserag and shirt.
1998 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. ‘They don't even know me,’ Pete said through a nose rag that he dropped..after clearing his cavities.
nose-ride v. intransitive. Surfing to practise nose-riding.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)] > actions of surfer
pearl-dive1923
slide1931
hot-dog1959
to hang five, ten1962
to kick out1962
to cut back1963
to pull out1963
to pull off1964
nose-ride1965
rollercoaster1969
shred1977
rail1986
to pull in1987
1965 M. Farrelly & C. McGregor This Surfing Life 138 Nose-ride, to ride on the nose of the surfboard.
1988 R. Rayner Los Angeles without Map (1989) 68 You hear the water splash against the board and then you're up..cutting a turn, stepping to the end of a board, noseriding.
nose-rider n. Surfing a surfboard designed for nose-riding; (also) a surfer who practises nose-riding.
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1966 Press-Tel. (Long-beach, Calif.) 9 Nov. p. v/4 (advt.) Sporting Goods... Hobie Noserider 9′11″ $75.
1968 J. Wagenvoord & L. Bailey How to Surf 72/2 Lance Carson is another well-known nose rider of exceptional skill.
1979 Southern Exposure Fall 86/3 Since the Spring of '68,..the first V-Bottoms had made his 9-foot- 4-inch nose-rider obsolete.
2005 M. Warshaw Encycl. Surfing (new ed.) 420/2 By the mid-'90s, pencil-thin teenage goofyfooter Joel Tudor..was being described as the finest noserider in the history of the sport.
2014 Hermosa Beach (Calif.) Easy Reader 21 Aug. 8/5 Vince Ray..walked home with a turquoise-tinted noserider underneath his arm.
† nose-riders n. Obsolete rare a kind of spectacles; (perhaps) pince-nez.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles
spectaclec1386
a pair of spectacles1423
ocularies?a1425
barnaclea1566
eye1568
sight-glasses1605
glass eye1608
prospective glass1616
sights1619
prospectivea1635
nose-compasses1654
glass1660
lunettes1681
peeper1699
eyeglass1760
specs1807
winker1816
gig-lamps1853
nose-riders1875
window1896
cheaters1920
1875 E. H. Dering Sherborne II. xviii. 53 Sir Thomas..put on a pair of those glasses which are popularly known as nose-riders.
nose-riding n. Surfing the action or practice of standing on the nose or front end of a surfboard when surfing.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer
kick-out1801
ride1883
side-slip1913
surf1917
slide1935
pull-out1957
quasimodo1960
head dip1962
nose-riding1962
rolling1962
spinner1962
stalling1962
toes over1962
cutback1963
Eskimo roll1964
re-entry1968
right1968
rollercoaster1968
barrel roll1971
hold-down1982
railing1983
cross-stepping1990
cross-step1994
turtle roll2001
1962 Austral. Women's Weekly Suppl. 24 Oct. 3/3 Nose-riding, standing right at front of the board while riding a wave.
1971 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) Feb. 25 Until the end of the nose-riding era, the run of Cape Town surfers identified with the Californian scene as portrayed in Surfer.
1990 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 25 Feb. 10/6 Farrelly said nose riding suffered as a result of Young's onslaught.
2003 M. Warshaw Encycl. Surfing (2005) 420/1 The science of noseriding—the hydrodynamics that allow the board's nose to glide along the wave rather than sink below the rider's weight—has baffled surfers for decades.
nose rubbing n. the action or practice of rubbing noses together in greeting or as an expression of affection; cf. hongi n.
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1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. i. ii. 61 Leaving him to indulge his natural feeling in hongi..or nose-rubbing.
1943 J. F. Folsom Family & Democratic Soc. xi. 370 There are whole societies, such as the Chinese, which do not regard the kiss as a source of pleasure, but which practice nose rubbing or some other form of caress instead.
1990 Philos. Perspectives 4 9 The spontaneous embrace is itself fairly invariant, but its formalized version..shows considerable cross-culural variation—from kissing to nose rubbing.
nose stud n. a stud worn in a person's nose as a piece of jewellery.
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1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 139 The diamond nose-stud that takes the place of the Western patch in drawing attention to the curve of the nostril.
2000 Daily Tel. 29 Sept. 13/8 By the time she died from blood poisoning she had a total of 118 piercings—28 ear studs, 13 ear rings,..and six nose studs.
nose-suspended adj. Railways (of an electric traction motor) suspended by a nose (sense 7g) from the framework of the bogie or vehicle.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > type of traction motor
nose-suspended1927
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [adjective] > of or relating to electrically powered vehicles
nose-suspended1927
1927 R. E. Dickinson Electr. Trains vi. 111 Fig. 48 shows a bogie with two nose-suspended motors in place.
1991 10th Railway Industry Assoc. Motive Power Course II. vii. 9 Of the various forms of axle drive the axle hung, nose suspended, traction motor holds the honour of simplicity and..reliability.
nose suspension n. Railways the suspension of an electric traction motor by a nose (sense 7g) from the framework of the bogie or vehicle.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > parts of electric railway traction unit
guard-brush1888
nose suspension1894
nose1907
pantograph1907
dead man's handle1908
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > electrically-powered vehicle > method of supporting motor
nose suspension1894
1894 K. Hedges Amer. Electr. Street Railways vii. 75 By the older method half the weight only was on the cross bar, resting on springs, and the remainder on the axle. [This] method is known as the End or Nose Suspension.
1948 D. W. Hinde & M. Hinde Electr. & Diesel-electr. Locomotives ii. 24 Where hammer-blow on the track and axle-loading are not limiting factors.., nose-suspension is the simplest form of drive obtainable.
nose tackle n. American Football = middle guard n. (b) at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a; cf. nose guard n. (b).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
rush1857
punt-out1861
goal-kicking1871
safety1879
safety touchdown1879
scrimmage1880
rushing1882
safety touch1884
touchback1884
forward pass1890
run1890
blocking1891
signal1891
fake1893
onside kick1895
tandem-play1895
pass play1896
spiral1896
shift1901
end run1902
straight-arm1903
quarterback sneak1904
runback1905
roughing1906
Minnesota shift1910
quarterbacking1910
snap-back1910
pickoff1912
punt return1914
screen forward pass1915
screen pass1920
power play1921
sneak1921
passback1922
snap1922
defence1923
reverse1924
carry1927
lateral1927
stiff-arm1927
zone1927
zone defence1927
submarine charge1928
squib1929
block1931
pass rushing1933
safetying1933
trap play1933
end-around1934
straight-arming1934
trap1935
mousetrap1936
buttonhook1938
blitzing1940
hand-off1940
pitchout1946
slant1947
strike1947
draw play1948
shovel pass1948
bootleg1949
option1950
red dog1950
red-dogging1951
rollout1951
submarine1952
sleeper pass1954
draw1956
bomb1960
swing pass1960
pass rush1962
blitz1963
spearing1964
onsides kick1965
takeaway1967
quarterback sack1968
smash-mouth1968
veer1968
turn-over1969
bump-and-run1970
scramble1971
sack1972
nose tackle1975
nickel1979
pressure1981
1975 N.Y. Times 28 Sept. v. 6/2 If you see the position abbreviation n.t. after a player's name, realize that he is a nose tackle, like Ray Hamilton of the New England Patriots.
2000 Esquire Sept. 202/2 In a booming, thunderous profession..Brad Culpepper, the nose tackle from the University of Florida..plays a violent game violently.
† nose-tent n. Obsolete rare a medicinal plug for insertion in the nose.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > suppositories, etc. > [noun] > for the nose
nasal?a1425
errhine1601
nose-tent1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 61 Cumin reduced into the form of trochisks or nose-tents, put vp into the nosthrils, stancheth bloud.
nose-thumb n. a blatant disregard.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > making derisive gesture > a derisive gesture
geck?a1513
mock-sign1659
snook1791
nose-thumb1963
1963 Guardian 11 Feb. 2/6 Their medical officer of health..is leaving his post because of the council's continued nose-thumb at the Clean Air Act.
1989 Car & Driver Oct. 80/1 It's [sic] very existence is a brazen nose-thumb to any suggestion of social consciousness.
nose-thumbing n. the action or an act of thumbing one's nose at someone.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > making derisive gesture
blearingc1440
nose-thumbing1930
1930 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 4 42 Therein one becomes cognizant with such delectable news that on seventeen occasions the guardians of Staatsmoral were obliged to kick out ‘reference to suicide’... ‘Nose-thumbing’..was hurled outside 32 times.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xiv. 317 That peculiar form of recognition variously known as ‘the five-finger salute’, ‘nose thumbing’,..‘cocking a snook’, or ‘taking a sight’ used, thirty years ago, to be demonstrated by every child in the country.
1994 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Nov. 63/1 For Katel to show up in the middle of the day, shooting off his rifle only a few miles from where Arafat sat in his office, was a neat bit of nose-thumbing.
nose trick n. the inadvertent inhalation or expulsion of liquid through the nose when drinking; esp. in to do the nose trick.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > [noun] > through nose > inhalation of liquid
nose trick1928
1928 S. Thompson Battle of Horizons ii. iii. 51 Oh, daddy—you've made me do the nose-trick—and it is so painful.
1994 Daily Tel. 20 Oct. 17/1 My recitation was followed by that reliable indicator, in country houses, of disapproval: someone doing the nose trick with a schooner of amontillado.
nose tube n. a tube placed in a nostril for introducing fluid or gas; (Medicine) a nasogastric tube.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > tube or cannula > other tubes
pipeeOE
pipe?a1425
nose tube1857
feeding-tube1884
tracheotomy tube1897
tracheostomy tube1961
stent1964
grummet1966
1857 Sci. Amer. 4 Apr. 234/1 I do not claim the nose tube with the conical opening, the outer end of which is circular.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 300 I..feed the patient by the nose-tube if she cannot be got to take enough nourishment otherwise.
2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. ix. 4/5 Ms. Milbrett and Ms. Pearce warily donned nose tubes to sample the tangerine-flavored gas at the club's Oxygen Bar.
nose wheel n. Aeronautics a wheel of landing gear situated under the nose of an aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > landing gear > wheel
tail wheel1910
nose wheel1934
ski-wheel1938
1934 Flight 6 Dec. 1301 A castor nose wheel allows the fullest use to be made of the wheel brakes of the Hammond Model Y.
1990 Independent 15 Jan. 1/3 The nose wheel of the airbus struck the right wing of Mr Ockel's aircraft.
nose wheelie n. Skateboarding a wheelie in which the rear wheels of the board are raised into the air.
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1976 J. Grant Skateboarding vii. 62 To lift up the back wheels, reach up and out with your arms and point your toes down just a little. Like the back wheelie, a nose wheelie is easy to do for a fraction of a second, but hard to hold for any length of time.
1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 456/1 Doing nose wheelies and belly whoppers or popping an ollie railslide into a bench at the K-mart parking lot simply doesn't have the cosmic punch of conquering the storm waves at Waikiki.
nose-wiper n. slang a handkerchief.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief
coverchiefc1305
cloutc1380
muckender1420
napkin1436
handkerchief1530
handkercher1531
mocket1537
wiper1587
nose-cloth1589
pocket handkerchief1645
handcloth1676
mouchoira1685
pocket-clotha1704
wipe1708
volet1789
kerchief1814
snotter1823
lachrymatory1825
nose-rag1840
nose-wiper1840
sweat-rag1843
lachrymary1854
sneezer1857
stook1859
snottinger1864
snot-rag1888
hanky1895
penwiper1902
paper handkerchief1907
nose-wipe1919
snitch-rag1940
paper hankie1959
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. x. 132 I take out my noshe-viper to blow my noshe.
a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) i. 4 Charged with my relay of nose-wipers, I was close to his Majesty on the steps of the throne.
2000 Lexington Herald Leader (Nexis) 5 Aug. c1 On the tissue battle front, Puffs and Kleenex are fighting a pitched battle as favorite nose-wiper.
† nose-worm n. Obsolete rare the maggot of the sheep nostril fly or botfly, Oestrus ovis; cf. nose fly n. (b).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > oestrus ovis (sheep-bot) > larva of
sheep-nose-worm1753
nose-worm1861
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Sheep-nose-worms, a species of fly-worm, found in the noses of sheep, goats, and stags.]
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vii. i. 326 The œstrus of the sheep.., called by Reaumur ‘Fly of the Nose-worm’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

nosev.1

Brit. /nəʊz/, U.S. /noʊz/
Forms: see nose n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nose n.
Etymology: < nose n.
I. With reference to the nose as the organ of smell.
1.
a. transitive. To perceive by the sense of smell; to discover, notice, or recognize by smell. Also with out.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (transitive)] > track or perceive using sense of smell
i-stinkc1000
smellc1175
smakec1220
feelc1225
asmellc1320
savoura1382
scenta1425
winda1425
get1530
vent1575
nose1577
smell1608
resent1614
snuff1697
to get (also take, pick up) the scent1723
to carry scent1753
find1827
snuffle1871
flair1919
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. viii. 10/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I He neuer ceaseth to raunge til he haue nosed his footing.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. iii. 36 You may chance to nose him as you go vp the lobby.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 5 in Wks. II There cannot be an ancient Tripe or Trillibub i' the Towne, but thou art straight nosing it.
1795 Sporting Mag. 5 85 A partner in a banking-house, who lives near enough..to nose his lordship's kitchen.
1815 R. Southey Jrnl. Tour in Netherlands (1903) 153 You might nose them [sc. cheeses] at a considerable distance.
1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) i. 9 Although we ‘nose’ the murderers, in the musty unaired unsunned room.
1877 Scribner's Monthly 15 170/2 I have seen a pack..nose out the scent under an inch of light snow.
1991 C. Barker Imajica (1992) 41 The animal had sniffed from the street what its owner only began to nose as he climbed the stairs.
b. transitive. figurative. To detect or discover as if by means of a keen sense of smell. Usually with out.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > (as) by smelling
smellc1380
smell?1548
scent?1553
outsmella1563
nosea1637
to get (also take, pick up) the scent1723
snuff1790
besmell1803
sniff1864
snuffle1871
a1637 B. Jonson Execr. against Vulcan in tr. Horace Art of Poetrie (1640) 37 The brethren they straight nos'd it out for newes.
1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 368 If a pickpocket noses a peer upon the turf.
1795 E. Fenwick Secresy II. 163 He may nose out a long list of worm eaten rotten heroes.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 335 We nosed him as the prime contributor to the New Monthly.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 89 My daughter and I could nose out either a fasting hypocrite or a full one.
1893 W. A. Shee My Contemporaries viii. 219 The parliamentary ‘busybody’..nosing a job in every Ministerial move.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 31 Like his father, he was always nosing out bargains, a cold-blooded young beggar!
1985 R. Cobb Classical Educ. iv. 58 He would have nosed out some quiet corner where he could get through the day unobserved.
c. transitive. To inhale (an aroma); to assess (something, esp. a drink) by inhaling the aroma; spec. to appraise the quality of (a wine or spirit) in this way.
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1967 M. Ayrton Maze Maker iii. lvi. 248 ‘You know,’ he said, picking a jar and nosing its aroma.
1980 P. Vandyke Price Dict. Wines & Spirits 239 Scotch..is mainly ‘nosed’ by the blender, who..would swiftly tire his or her palate if the liquid were taken into the mouth.
1989 Independent 23 Mar. 12/7 Like tea tasters anywhere, I suppose, they first ‘nose’ the cup of steaming tea.
1994 Oxf. Compan. Wine 679/1 British wine tasters..talk about ‘nosing’ wines when they smell them.
2. transitive †(a) To take (tobacco) through the nose. Obsolete. (b) To eject (tobacco smoke) through the nose. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > exhale or blow smoke > through nose
nose1630
1630 Wine, Beere, Ale, & Tobacco (ed. 2) sig. Dv 16. Nose your tobacco. 17. Puffe up your smoake.
1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son in Wks. (1673) 23 I..cannot approve nosing, or swallowing it [sc. tobacco] down.
1693 A. Littleton Linguæ Romanæ Dictionarium To nose Tobacco, peti fumum per nares efflare.
1937 C. Woolrich in Black Mask Oct. 32/1 She lit a cigarette, nosed the smoke at me.
3.
a. intransitive. To search furtively for something, to pry. Frequently with after or for.
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the mind > attention and judgement > be curious, wonder [verb (intransitive)] > pry
prya1350
toot1390
spyc1485
underpry1600
reave1615
nose1648
rave1671
poke1715
snoop1832
Paul-Pry1836
piroot1858
stickybeak1921
prodnose1954
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > spy, pry [verb (intransitive)]
spyc1485
nose1648
snoop1921
1648 Regall Apol. 11 They go nosing and smelling after faults.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 192 To nose, is to pry into any person's proceedings in an impertinent manner.
1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond III. viii. 122 What the deuce they do here nosing after my grandson!
1899 M. Hewlett in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 326/1 Franciscans..and Dominicans..who got wind of something amiss, and began to nose for a scandal.
1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets ii. 189 I thought of her nosing in my room for signs.
1941 A. Curnow in R. M. Chapman & J. Bennett Anthol. N.Z. Verse (1956) 148 I am the nor'west air nosing among the pines.
1951 P. Larkin Let. 13 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 171 Nosing into the files here I discovered that a late colleague of mine at Leicester had opined that I was a lackadaisical sort of person.
1979 K. M. Peyton Marion's Angels iv. 64 This reply baffled Ruth, but she didn't nose.
1992 F. Kippax Butcher's Bill (BNC) 210 Don't talk to the newspapers too much about this, will you? And especially not the newspapers if they start nosing.
b. intransitive. literal. Esp. of an animal: to use or apply the nose in smelling; to search for using the nose; to sniff, to smell.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (intransitive)] > exercise sense of smell
smellc1200
smella1300
snokec1380
smell1526
snuff1530
snuffle1601
whiff1635
sniff1788
nose1794
nuzzle1806
snuft1820
snuzzle1861
1794 ‘P. Pindar’ Wks. I. 74 Closely nosing, o'er the picture dwell, As if to try the goodness by the smell.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 530 Panting and open mouth'd and nosing.
1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings vi. 84 These [savages] seem to be scenting about like so many hounds which are nosing for a trail.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 42 You expect your dog to nose well.
1952 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Z. Lorenz King Solomon's Ring ix. 110 They [sc. water-shrews] run with amazing speed along their pathways and arrive at their destination much sooner than they would if, by whiskering and nosing, they tried to go straight.
1992 Beaver Aug. 6/2 Rover or Shep was also usually much in evidence, nosing for meadow mice around the upended haycocks, while the humans took their break for lunch.
c. intransitive. With around (round), used adverbially or prepositionally, or about. Usually figurative.
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1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iii. 33 Our two pads..began to nose about and crop, sniffing more than they need.
1879 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 21 Jan. (1920) I. 187 The detectives were nosing around after Stewart's loud remains.
1898 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 5/3 The whole duty of a dog is to keep other dogs from nosing round its master's garden.
1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves i. 28 He began to nose about. He pulled out drawer after drawer.
1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iii. 36 We nosed around the Islands,..searching for indications of our quarry.
1987 Sunday Times 4 Oct. 93/1 Nosing around other people's houses fascinates most of us.
1999 A. Soueif Map of Love (2000) 166 The donkey took the opportunity to nose about for a green stalk in the dust.
4. transitive. To bring the nose close to (a thing) for the purpose of examining by smell; to examine using, or as if using, the sense of smell. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, examine [verb (transitive)] > with the nose
nosea1851
a1851 D. M. Moir Highlander's Return ix Old Stumah fawning fain, First nosed him round, then licked his hand.
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 280/2 A serious accident may repay you for nosing it too closely.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 91 The..New-Englander nosed all the cracks..with the most passionate attention.
1919 Outing Mar. 341/1 He was nosing his new quarters curiously. Finally he sat up on his haunches in a hump-backed way.
II. With reference to the form or prominence of the nose.
5.
a. transitive. To confront or reproach (a person) with something. Now English regional (Lincolnshire).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] > reproach with
upbraida1250
undernimc1320
to lay to one's credit, reproachc1515
to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526
to twit (a person) in the teeth1530
to hit (one) in the teeth with1535
to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551
to fling (anything) in one's teeth1587
to throw (thrust, fling, (etc.)) (something) in a person's face1597
to tit (a person) in the teeth1622
nose1625
exprobrate1630
puta1663
1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 60 None of the best Proctors for vs Tithing-men, but One with whom we poore Vicars are daily nosed.
a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 71 This..frequent fault in the world; which is, when men haue done kindness to others, to nose them with it.
1732 Compl. Coll. Rep., Lyes, & Stories ii. 51 What is this,..but affronting and noseing the Bishops with Popery to their very Faces.
1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting 123 If he loves company,..nose him with your great love of needle-work and housewifery.
1887 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1889) 376 I'll noäse him wi' it, you may depend, as soon as he cum's oot o' prison.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 207/1 A'll nooase 'im wiyit as soon as A see 'im.
†b. transitive. To confront, face, or oppose, esp. in an impudent or insolent manner. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > treat impudently [verb (transitive)] > oppose or confront impudently
face1465
overfacec1475
outface?1499
to face down (also out)1530
out-countenancec1585
outstare1596
outlook1599
nose1632
to stare down1798
out-breast1839
1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers i. iv. 7 Y'are an arrant Coxcombe To tell me so. My daughter nos'd by a slut?
a1644 F. Quarles Virgin Widow (1649) ii. i When Pertenax..Could nose the King, and beard him to his face.
1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 157 You began to lift up your heads, and to nose your Governours.
1733 in Jrnl. Royal Inst. Cornwall (1887) 9 ii Mr. Rogers made him town sergeant and mace bearer, to nose Sir Peter and his interest.
1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 14 A sort of national convention..nosed parliament in the very seat of its authority.
1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 16 Is not the thought appalling, that a monarch..should thus be..nosed in his own courtly dwelling?
†c. transitive. To cheat or defraud of something. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
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trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet iii. 23 I am like to be nosed of a Patient.
a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor i. ii. 7 in Five New Playes (1659) 'Twould anger any man to be nos'd of such a match.
†d. transitive. To be or come face to face with (a person). (literal and figurative) Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > sit close to > and opposite
nose1816
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > meet or encounter [verb (transitive)] > coming from another direction (of person)
meeteOE
to come (also go, run, etc.) to meeta1325
nose1816
to bump into ——1894
1816 G. Colman Eccentricities Edinb. 80 Nosing Eudoxus, blue-eyed Agnes sat.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 324 The French noblesse had no grandeur. No man could be impressed reverentially by titles which nosed him in every corner of every street.
6. transitive. To rub with the nose; to push or press the nose into or against. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be in contact with > touch with specific part of body
nose1773
nuzzle1812
knee1892
1773 J. R. Forster Jrnl. 7 Apr. in ‘Resolution’ Jrnl. (1982) II. 248 Capt Cook..went up & nosed him, which is the mark of friendship among these people.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 111 Nosing each other like a flock of sheep.
1876 C. D. Warner Mummies & Moslems xix. 250 It does not need our eyes to tell us when the bow of the boat noses the swift water.
1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. xvii. 140 The horses drew in the water, and nosed each other.
1961 H. D. Torbett Angler's Freshwater Fishes iii. 95 Despite their timidity, bleak will swim nosing the feet of the small boy paddling in the shadows.
1986 Independent 5 Dec. 14 An..advantage of not having to nose the grindstone in a..nine to five style is being able to get cheap seats at afternoon movie matinees.
†7. transitive. To lead about by the nose. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > lead about > in specific manner
danglea1732
nose1885
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham xi, in Cent. Mag. Mar. 666/2 As long as you live you'll have to be nosed about like a perfect—I don't know what!
8.
a. intransitive. Esp. of a vehicle or craft: to advance cautiously, to edge forward.
ΚΠ
1890 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors i, in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 617 A steamer slowly noseing round off the wharf-cranes.
1898 Daily News 7 May 7/5 The Morrill, which had been nosing up towards us, swung across the path of the liner.
1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 203 A mongrel-looking man was nosing past. ‘Wouldn't he murder you for your watch-chain?’
1987 R. Thomas Strangers ii. 65 Martin saw a patrolling police car nose across a junction.
2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xxxv. 396 The Beamer nosed out into the fast lane on the Euston Road, and sped under the underpass.
b. intransitive. To push at with the nose.
ΚΠ
1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 141 One of the horses woke me by nosing at my arm in a friendly way.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 65 The cat, having cleaned all her fur, returned to the meatstained paper, nosed at it and stalked to the door.
1997 New Yorker 2 June 48/3 After we left, Penelope and I nosed at the window again from the outside.
c. transitive. To make (one's way) slowly and cautiously.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > effect forward movement in specific way > in other specific ways
smell1608
to bore one's waya1705
slice1872
sing1890
nose1894
to bullock one's way1909
muscle1934
to winkle one's way1979
1894 H. Caine Manxman v. iii. 288 Cranching among the boats as they nosed their way to the harbour mouth.
1926 E. F. Spanner Naviators i. 9 The car nosed its way ahead on bottom gear, and at a snail's pace.
1937 Discovery Feb. 38/2 We nosed our way through the reeds.
1991 N.Y. Times 8 Dec. 29/1 I find it far more emotionally rewarding to make out the form of a solitary wild 10-footer as it noses its way toward me through a subtropical lettuce lake.
d. transitive. to nose out: to push (a person, etc.) aside or away; spec. to defeat by a narrow margin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > by a narrow margin
to nose out1913
to pip at (also on) the post1924
1913 C. E. Van Loan Lucky Seventh 82 ‘I could stand it,’ said Barney to Billy Lee..‘to be nosed out by a smart guy; but to have a bonehead like this Boyle take my cue away [etc.].’
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Nose Nose out, to defeat by a narrow margin.
1954 Sat. Night 1 May 30/3 Sir Charles Ravenstreet..finds that, in his middle fifties, he has been nosed out of the company which he helped to make.
1980 R. Mayer 1937 Newark Bears xi. 153 The pitiful Browns..put together a fine wartime team and managed to nose out the Detroit Tigers by one game for the pennant.
1996 Independent 31 Jan. 1/2 The BBC and 40 Continental broadcasters yesterday clinched exclusive European rights to broadcast the five Olympic Games between 2000 and 2008.., nosing out a $2bn financial bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
e. transitive. To direct or drive (a vehicle, craft, etc.) cautiously forward.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > steer > in a certain direction
nose1954
1954 ‘N. Shute’ Slide Rule iv. 89 The elevator coxswain nosed her [sc. an airship] upwards to about a thousand feet.
1972 D. Delman Week to Kill 139 I nosed the car out of town and on to 118, where I zapped it into high.
1973 T. McGuane Ninety-two in Shade (1974) 9 Nichol Dance's guide boat..was nosed up the tidal creek.
1991 M. Kilby Man at Sharp End (BNC) 162 Gently nosing the car down the hill into the village, he turned off the road into the gravelled drive.
f. intransitive. to nose ahead (also in front): to go into the lead by a small margin; to gain a slight advantage.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make good progress > make more progress than another
to nose ahead (also in front)1960
1960 Times 1 July 18/1 So Miss Truman had nosed ahead at last.
1971 P. G. Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves xiii. 134 If the McCorkadale nosed ahead of him in the voting, Florence would in all probability hand him the pink slip.
1986 Sc. Sunday Express 4 May 1/7 The Celts just nosing ahead by a margin of two goals.
1993 Racing Post 20 Feb. 51/2 Another preferred trail-blazer, he will not be beaten if nosing in front at the turn.
9. intransitive. to nose down: to direct the nose of an aircraft downwards; to produce or undergo a downward steepening of the flight path.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > descend
to nose down1916
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks (1918) ii. 85 If a sharp turn necessitates banking beyond that angle, he must ‘nose-down’.
1938 V. W. Pagé Airplane Servicing Man. xxiv. 818 It is considered advisable, if the engine should stop, that the plane will nose down automatically, instead of tending to stall.
1958 R. D. Blacker Basic Aeronaut. Sci. xi. 195/1 The vertical portion of the lift was not as great as the weight of the airplane and it nosed down, losing altitude.
1974 J. Montgomerie Implosion xii. 86 We crossed the coast, nosing down over pewter sea... Runway rose towards us.
1993 D. Robinson Goshawk Squadron (BNC) 72 Each pilot wheeled out of the fictional sun, nosed down, and jockeyed his bouncing machine into a dive.
10.
a. intransitive. to nose over: (of an aircraft) to pitch or fall on to its nose.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > fly [verb (intransitive)] > fall over on nose
to nose over1927
1927 C. A. Lindbergh ‘We’ iii. 37 A forced landing at any time would have at least meant nosing over.
1928 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft xii. 523 If the ground is very soft or if there are hummocks or ditches, the machine is very likely to ‘nose over’.
1986 Aviation News July 205/3 K192..was forced to ditch and then nosed over.
1991 Pilot Nov. 64/1 Unfortunately the ground was soft due to recent rain, and the aircraft nosed over.
b. intransitive. Of a surfboard: to plunge underwater nose first. Also (with under) of a person: to cause a surfboard to do this.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)] > actions of board
pearl-dive1923
pearl1961
nose1963
1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 20/2 Don't let your board ‘nose’. This is what happens when the front of the surf board digs in.
1991 T. Cralle Surfin'ary 81/1 Nosing under, nosing, to slip the front of a surfboard under water while riding a wave. Usage: ‘I was nosing under on that last section.’
III. Technical and other uses.
†11. transitive. To utter or sing nasally. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > nasally
snaffle1616
snuffle1641
nosea1643
twang1748
snifter1880
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iii. v It makes far better Musick, when you Nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's Meeter.
1680 J. Speed Batt upon Batt 9 Upon thy banks fam'd Sternhold did compose Those two last staves which Batt so oft doth nose.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xxviii. 93 After he has nosed and mumbled over his responses.
12. transitive. To remove the eye from (an apple, gooseberry, etc.). Cf. nose n. 7d. Now English regional (Cornwall).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > prepare fruit and vegetables [verb (transitive)] > remove nose
nose1736
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 309 Nose your gooseberries.
1879 in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 304 We nosed about eight quarts o' black curran's after milkin' time.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Hoo's gotten a grät baskettle o' corrans to nose.
1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. ii. 597 Q[uestion]. Before putting your gooseberries into the pie-dish, what must you do to them?.. [Cornwall] Nose..them.
13. Criminals' slang.
a. intransitive. To inform on a person to the police; †to turn Queen's or King's evidence (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (intransitive)]
inform1588
peach1598
whistle1599
sing1612
whiddlec1661
squeak1690
wheedle1710
whittle1735
to blow the gab1785
snitch1801
rat1810
nose1811
sing1816
gnarl1819
split1819
stag1839
clype1843
squeal1846
blow1848
to round on1857
nark1859
pimp1865
squawk1872
ruck1884
to come or turn copper1891
copper1897
sneak1897
cough1901
stool1911
tattle-tale1918
snout1923
talk1924
fink1925
scream1925
sarbut1928
grass1929
to turn over1967
dime1970
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > give evidence [verb (intransitive)] > act as witness > turn state's evidence
to turn evidencea1689
nose1811
to turn King's (also Queen's, State's) evidence1865
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Nose His pall nosed, and he was twisted for a crack,..was hanged for burglary.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 192 To nose upon any one, is to tell of any thing he has said or done with a view to injure him, or to benefit yourself.
1846 tr. E. Sue Myst. of Paris cli. 743/1 Gros Boiteux..has already wanted to escarper him, (make him a stiff 'un—kill him,) because he has mangé (nosed, informed upon some one).
1923 E. Wallace Missing Million xix. 156 When a copper comes to one of the ‘boys’ for expert advice, it means he wants him to ‘nose’.
1930 E. Wallace White Face x. 147 You come down 'ere an' expect us to ‘nose’ for you, and everybody in the court knows we're ‘nosing’.
b. transitive. To inform on; (also, occasionally) to incite (a person) into action by the provision of information.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (transitive)]
wrayc725
meldeOE
bimeldena1300
forgabc1394
to blow up?a1400
outsay?a1400
detectc1449
denounce1485
ascry1523
inform1526
promote1550
peach1570
blow1575
impeach1617
wheedle1710
split1795
snitch1801
cheep1831
squeal1846
to put away1858
spot1864
report1869
squawk1872
nose1875
finger1877
ruck1884
to turn over1890
to gag on1891
shop1895
pool1907
run1909
peep1911
pot1911
copper1923
finger1929
rat1932
to blow the whistle on1934
grass1936
rat1969
to put in1975
turn1977
1822 Mem. Life & Trial J. Mackcoull 112 But our hero having been informed of his movements, had him nosed, and he was in consequence apprehended.
1875 M. Clarke His Nat. Life I. vii. 108 There!..what do you think of that? Does the girl look like nosing us now?
1941 J. Phelan Murder by Numbers xiii. 199 Masher came the double on me, about seven years ago... He nearly nosed me into getting an innocent man's life.
†14. intransitive. Geology. Of a fold: to run out, or (of folded strata) to pass in to the ground, in such a way that the contours, seen in plan, have a V- or nose-shaped form. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1879 A. Geikie in Encycl. Brit. X. 301/1 When a fold diminishes in this way it is said to ‘nose out’... Hence the anticline noses out to the north and the syncline to the south.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 175 A stratum is said to nose in when it dips beneath the ground or into a hill-side in a V or nose form.
†15. transitive. To provide (a candlestick, a step, etc.) with a nose (nose n. 7e, 8a). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > put nosing on step
nose1884
1884 H. Smith Negligence (ed. 2) 185 Slipping on steps nosed with brass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

nosev.2

Johnson's misreading of noise (see noise v. 1a) in a passage quoted by him from Shakespeare's Ant. & Cl. Explained as ‘to look big; to bluster’, and copied with variations by later dictionaries.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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