A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
A snout, the nose of an animal.
The tip of an object.
the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”). See also Saterland Frisian Noo...
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To detect by smell or as if by smell.
[…] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.