Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a nose; especially, having a nose of a certain kind specified by a qualifying word: as, long-nosed; hook-nosed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chiefly used in composition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective in combination Having some specific type of nose
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of nose.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind

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Examples

  • Pet Corner - Ailments of the nose Continued from last week Difficult breathing in short-nosed dogs Certain breeds

    Stabroek News 2009

  • NOEL: Well, the car turned side ways in the road, and went kind of nosed down in the rushing water and the back was up in the air, and it was against a barbed wire fence.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2007 2007

  • And I started talking to Hillary about this, and she kind of nosed around up here, and we know we knew about the home because of all the work that the veterans here do for the White House, and one thing led to another and this became one of our millennial treasures.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: President Clinton Dedicates Lincoln Summer Retreat as National Monument - July 7, 2000 2000

  • And I started talking to Hillary about this, and she kind of nosed around up here.

    Remarks By President At Dedication Of Anderson Cottage ITY National Archives 2000

  • Each was "nosed", then eyeballed through Mr MacLean's red-rimmed monocle for its colour, and finally sipped by all, before scores out of ten were noted.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • While McGee tried to force his way into the highlights, Trevor Booker made his way there through some hard-nosed play.

    Rough schedule wearing on Wizards Michael Lee 2011

  • I cannot find anything I would consider out-of-line, and I'm a bit hard-nosed about those things.

    Retiring in Mexico 2009

  • I cannot find anything I would consider out-of-line, and I'm a bit hard-nosed about those things.

    Retiring in Mexico 2009

  • I know it is next to impossible to convince any hard nosed liberal or conservative that the current system is broke and Keynesian economics is going to always be a system of big boom and big bust cycles, due to governments involvement.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 13, 2010 2010

  • On the frozen river four coyotes nosed around the north shore margins.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

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