Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Led by the nose; dictated to; domineered over.
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Examples
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A loose, lively whisking tail accompanies the nose-led search for a ball lost in high grasses or an odor trail discovered on the ground.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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A loose, lively whisking tail accompanies the nose-led search for a ball lost in high grasses or an odor trail discovered on the ground.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Dabblers in literature, who would walk unseen, pigmies among a race of giants, get on their word-stilts, and straightway the ear-tickled critics and the unconsciously nose-led public join in pæans of applause.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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He had felt in his bones that the navy was about to be nose-led into shame.
Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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He had felt in his bones that the navy was about to be nose-led into shame.
Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909
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She selected the most interesting of its strands, and, nose-led, followed.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Noll were the devil himself, as he is the devil's darling, I will not be thus nose-led by him.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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A loose, lively whisking tail accompanies the nose-led search for a ball lost in high grasses or an odour trail discovered on the ground.
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