Nose , v. t.

1. To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet.

2. To furnish with a nose; as, to nose a stair tread.

3. To examine with the nose or sense of smell.

4. To make by advancing the nose or front end; as, the train nosed its way into the statio;(Racing Slang) to beat by (the length of) a nose.

Nose (?), v. i. To push or move with the nose or front forward.

A train of cable cars came nosing along. Hamlin Garland.

Nose (nōz), v. i.

1. To smell; to sniff; to scent.Audubon.

2. To pry officiously into what does not concern one.

Nose " (?), n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase, OHG. nasa, Icel. nös, Sw. näsa, Dan. näse, Lith. nosis, Russ. nos, L. nasus, nares, Skr. nāsā, nās. ? Cf. Nasal, Nasturtium, Naze, Nostril, Nozzle.]"

1. (Anat.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.

2. The power of smelling; hence, scent.

We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. Collier.

3. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle.

Nose bit (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. -- Nose hammer (Mach.), a frontal hammer. -- Nose hole (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. -- Nose key(Carp.), a fox wedge. -- Nose leaf(Zoöl.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. -- Nose of wax, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. "A nose of wax to be turned every way." Massinger -- Nose piece, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached. -- To hold, put, or bring one\s nose to the grindstone. See under Grindstone. -- To lead by the nose, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. Shak. -- To put one\s nose out of joint, to humiliate one\s pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] -- To thrust one\s nose into, to meddle officiously in. -- To wipe one\s nose of, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]

Nose , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Nosing.]

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

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

"Lambs . . . nosing the mothers udder." Tennyson.

A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority. Burke.

3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] Cowley.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913