Word Finder - noses

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A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

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She has a cold in the nose.

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A snout, the nose of an animal.

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The tip of an object.

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the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane

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The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.

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The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.

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Red Rum only won by a nose.

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A perfumer.

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The power of smelling.

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Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.

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The skill in recognising bouquet.

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It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.

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(by extension) Skill at finding information.

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A successful reporter has a nose for news.

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A downward projection from a cornice.

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• drip

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An informer.

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• nark

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To move cautiously by advancing its front end.

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The ship nosed through the minefield.

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To snoop.

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She was nosing around other people’s business.

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To detect by smell or as if by smell.

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To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.

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To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.

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

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to nose a prayer

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To furnish with a nose.

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to nose a stair tread

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

Most of them were disfigured by frost-bitten noses and cheeks, and nearly all had red, swollen and festering eyes.

They marched with handkerchiefs tied over their noses and mouths.

They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines.

He touched noses with her.

From all the preceding the tiny dik-diks (Madoqua) of NorthEast Africa differ by their hairy noses, expanded in some species into short trunks; while the widely spread klipspringer, Oreotragus saltator, with its several local races, is unfailingly distinguishable by its rounded blunt hoofs and thick, brittle, golden-flecked hair.

They are of a dark brown complexion, with very broad noses, lips but slightly everted, and small but usually sturdy physique, though often considerably emaciated owing to insufficiency of food.

We've all been keeping our noses too close to the grindstone.

Hence the anticline noses out to the north and the syncline to the south.

They have received a tinge of Hamitic blood from the Galla people, and have high foreheads, large eyes, straight noses and thick but not pouting lips.

Some had long, curved noses and chins, small eyes and wide, grinning mouths.

Others had flat noses, protruding eyes, and ears that were shaped like those of an elephant.

It killed me not to use the chance to rub their noses in the fact I beat them to the punch on this!

The four women looked at her, one gasping as her gaze fell to the tattoo and another paling, while the other two looked down their noses at her.

She put her hands around the back of his neck and pulled him in to touch noses.

Four keys capable of destroying a continent—and winning a war—were taken under their noses.

The tall, fair and blue-eyed individuals who are found to the north-east of the Seine and in Normandy appear to be nearer in race to the Scandinavian and Germanic invaders; a tall and darker type with long faces and aquiline noses occurs in some parts of Franche-Co1nt and Champagne, the Vosges and the Perche.

Physically the Maoris are true Polynesians, tall, well-built, with straight or slightly curved noses, high foreheads and oval faces.

By far the largest area is occupied by the Mongolian group. These have yellow-brown skins, black eyes and hair, flat noses and oblique eyes.

Like the Malay and the Mongol types they are short and thickly built, but unlike either they have prominent brows, bushy locks, round deep-set eyes, long divergent lashes, straight noses and much hair on the face and the body.

Their crania have a normal development; their cheek-bones are high; their noses prominent, with large nostrils; their lips straight; and they are marked by the absence of the auricular lobules.

At a subsequent confederation, held at Lublin in June, Zebrzydowski was reinforced by another great nobleman, Stanislaus Stadnicki, called the Devil, who "had more crimes on his conscience than hairs on his head," and was in the habit of cropping the ears and noses of small squires and chaining his serfs to the walls of his underground dungeons for months at a time.

For this slaughter Arthur took summary vengeance, slaying all the kinsfolk of the man who started the fight, and cutting off the noses of his women-folk.

Such a generalization will become sounder, if, as is now generally done by anthropologists, the Eskimo with their pyramidal skulls, dull complexion and flat noses are removed into a division by themselves.

Projecting brows, deeply sunk dark eyes, short noses, either straight or arched, but 'always depressed at the root, and moderately thick lips, with a somewhat receding chin, are general characteristics.

While discussing noses, he says that those with thick bulbous ends belong to persons who are insensitive, swinish; sharp-tipped belong to the irascible, those easily provoked, like dogs; rounded, large, obtuse noses to the magnanimous, the lion-like; slender hooked noses to the eagle-like, the noble but grasping; round-tipped retrousse noses to the luxurious, like barndoor fowl; noses with a very slight notch at the root belong to the impudent, the crow-like; while snub noses belong to persons of luxurious habits, whom he compares to deer; open nostrils are signs of passion, &c.

Their features are generally fairly regular and often beautiful; eyes invariably black, and in some persons oblique; jaws not projecting, except in a few instances; lips of medium thickness; the noses are naturally long, well shaped and arched, but many are artificially flattened at the bridge in infancy.

Some of them are as light-skinned as Europeans, tall, robust, thin-lipped, straight-nosed, with straight black hair; others are shorter and darker in complexion, with round heads, long noses, thick lips, and scraggy limbs, indicating perhaps the commingling of more than one Semitic people.

In Armenia and Asia Minor they are robust, thick-set and coarse-featured, with straight black hair and large hooked noses.

She met his bittersweet chocolate gaze defiantly, their noses literally inches apart.

Four keys capable of destroying a continent—and winning a war—were taken under their noses.

One of two immortal sects whose war threatened the realms, the Watchers were supposed to keep their noses and hands out of human affairs.

They were all dressed up with beads and fabric and they had baubles hanging from their noses.

Once free of the spell of market dogma, the answer appears under our noses.

Men they are so dozy at times and dont think further than their noses.

Birch splays before miles of new snow, fueling our noses, our four wheel drive.

Rub noses Shake hands Slight bow 3. Maintaining eye contact is considered good etiquette.

Choose to be served by barmaids with no teeth and hairy noses.

Those with living livestock hurried about tending the pathetic remnants of their herds with cloth over their noses to keep out the smell.

Fooling the police The London Greenwich Railroad, 1833 He had a clever ruse for getting the copies out under their noses.

Everybody in the entire town has snot hanging from their noses.

The idea that they would do so without bending the rules or sticking their noses in the trough was utterly unrealistic.

He used to hang around with fellas with false noses, who made witty, life-affirming, GOOD records.

As the New Town expanded, the Heriot Trust - whose revenues were greatly benefited thereby - erected day-schools in different districts, in which thousands of infants and older children received a free education, and, in 1 James Gillespie (1726-1797) was a tobacco and snuff manufacturer, and when he set up his carriage Henry Erskine suggested as a motto the homely couplet " Wha wad hae thocht it, That noses wad bocht it?

The Melanesians, sometimes called Papuans (q.v,, the Malay name for the natives of New Guinea, the headquarters of the race), are physically negroid in type, nearly black, with crisp curly hair, flat noses and thick lips.

In the protest against the scheme of "judging truth by counting noses," Shaftesbury recognized the danger of the standard which seemed to satisfy many deists; and in almost every respect he has more in common with those who afterwards, in Germany, annihilated the pretensions of complacent rationalism than with the rationalists themselves.

Our noses were assaulted by the putrefying smell of rotting flesh.

Cats carrying the virus may not have any symptoms or may have mouth ulcers or ' snotty noses ' which never get better.

Decongestant sprays Decongestant sprays may be used occasionally to relieve stuffy or blocked noses.

There are actually sunblock products for horses but this is mostly for their noses.

Because hamsters, with their little fluffy twitchy noses, really are intrinsically funny.