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Nor think yourself secure in doing wrong 
By telling noses with a party strong. Swift, To Gay. 
To thrust one's nose into, to meddle officiously with, nose-fish (noz ' fish), n. 
The slaves are nos'd like vultures : how wild they look ! 
Fletcher, Sea Voyage, v. 2. 
- To turn up the nose, to express scorn or contempt 
by a toss of the head with a slight drawing up of the nos- 
veil nertilio. 
See cut under bat-fish. 
See fluted 
The bat-fish, Maltlie 
To wipe another's noset, to cheat or defraud him. 
A. What hast thou done? 
6 I have imped the old metis noses of the money. 
Terence in English (1614). (Nares.) 
Under one's nose, under the immediate range of one's 
observation ; before one's very face. 
I am not ignorant how hazardous it will be to do this 
under the nose of the envious. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
nose 1 (noz), .;_pret. and pp. nosed, ppr. nosing. 
[< nose 1 , .] I. trans. 1. To smell; scent. 
You shall nose him as you go up the stairs. 
its 
arvee. See cut under 
nosonomy 
fashion of passing it through the septum is still found 
in India. 
The Toreas, another Neilgherry Hill tribe, worship es- 
pecially a gold nose-ring, which probably once belonged to 
one of their women. 
Sir J. Lvbbock, Orig. of Civilisation, p. 217. 
2. A ring for the nose of an animal, as a bull 
or a pig. 
nosetmrlt, nosethurlt, nosetnrillt, Obso- 
lete forms of nostril. 
_--_-. (noz'ga), . [Lit, a pretty thing to fl gee 
smell'; < nosel + gap, .] A bunch of flowers nosi f t ' An obsolete form of nuzzle. 
-, ,. f . m n. . v a sin ^ (nd , zin?)> .. [< n08e i + _ inflr i.] 
arch., the projecting 
edge of a molding or 
drip; the projecting 
Two priests of the convent of Arcadi came to us, and af- 
terwards the steward of the pasha Cuperli, who brought 
me a present of a nosegay and a water melon. 
used to regale the sense of smell; a posy; 
bouquet. 
She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the 
shearers. Shak., W. T., iv. 3. 44. 
1. In 
Ptmcke, Description of the East, II. i. 259. 
A low tree of 
., Hamlet, iv. 3. 38. nosegay-tree (noz'ga-tre), n 
During the song, one Robert Munday and his son, rural tropical America and the West Indies, in two 
fiddlers, who by instinct nosed festivities, appeared at the gpecies Plumeria rubra, the red, and P. alba-, 
molding on the edge 
of a step in a stair. 
2. In a lock, the keep- 
er which engages the 
t. 3. A 
2. To face; oppose to the face. Plumeria. 
I must tell you you're an arrant cockscomb nose-glasses (noz'glas"ez), n. pi 
To tell me so. My daughter nos'd by a slut! - ._s i i-f-v. 
Randolph, Jealous Lovers, i. 4. 
If we pedle out y time of our trad, others will step in 
Sherley, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 255. 
Eye-glasses 
nosings are frequently extended to cover or partly cover 
the tr " ead Aao , and roughened or embossed to prevent the 
, 
connected by a spring by which they are held feet from slipping upon them. Also called stair-nosing. 
on the nose, one eyepiece being so adjusted as nosing-motion (n6'zing-mo"shpn). n. In spin- 
to fold back on the other when not in use ; a ning, a system of mechanism whereby the ta- 
pince-nez. pered partj apex, or nose of a cap is wound as 
s are glad 
Nosing the mother's udder. 
Tennyson, Lucretius. 
The shaggy, mouse-colored donkey, nosing the turf with 
his mild and huge proboscis. 
H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 43. 
The viper then returns to it [its prey] with a slow glid- 
ing motion, noses the entire body, and finally seizes the 
latter by the head and -t. N ^ LJX ^ 
crown-glass is exposed during the progress of nosite (no'zit), n. [Named after K. W. Nose: 
manufacture in order to soften the thick part see nosean.'] Same as nosean. 
at the neck which has just been detached from noslet, n. An obsolete form of nozle. 
the blowing-tube. 2. In goal., a nostril. nOSOCOmet (nos'o-kom), n. [< OP. nosocome , < 
LL. nosocomium, < Gr. vooatofuiav, an infirmary, 
(noz'horn), n. 1. The horn of 
rhinoceros. 2. The nasicorn or rhinotheca of 
a bird. 
nose-key (noz'ke), n. In carp., same as fox- 
To nose out, to flnd or find out by or as if by smelling wedge. E. H. Knight. 
about! noselt, n. An obsolete form of nozle. 
II. intrans. 1 . To smell ; sniff. noselt, *' An obsolete form of nuzzle. 
Methinksl see one [an opossum], . . . nosing as it goes nose-leaf (noz'lef), n. A peculiar appendage 
for the fare its ravenous appetite prefers. Audubon. of the snout of many bats, as the rhinolophine nosocomial (nos-o-ko mi-al), a 
a LiLi. nosocomium, <. t*r. voaoKapetov, an inn tary, 
of a hospital, < voaoicofieiv, take care of the sick, < 
voaon6fiaf, taking care of the sick, < voo-of, sick- 
ness, disease, + ico/ieiv, take care of, attend to.] 
A hospital. 
The wounded should be ... had care of in his great 
hospital or nosocome. 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, f. 51. (Dames.) 
[< nosocome + 
, 
and phyllostomine forms, consisting partly of -ial.] Relating to a hospital : as, a nosocomial 
foliaceous extension and complication of the fever. See/erer 1 Nosocomial gangrene. Same 
integument, partly of modified glandular struc- 
tures (of the same character as those m which 
the vibnsssB of other bats are inserted) well sup- 
p lj e d with nerves, the whole forming a delicate 
and highly sensitive tactile organ. See cut 
under Phyttorhina. 
Bats have the sense of touch strongly developed in the 
wings and external ears, and in some species in the flaps 
of skin found near the nose. These nose-leaves and expand- 
ed ears frequently show vibratile movements, like the an- 
tennae of insects, enabling the animal to detect slight at- , _________ 
mospheric impulses. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 479. nOSOgenesis (nos-o-jen'e-sis), n. [NL., < Gr. 
Nose, a German geologist (1753-1835).] A nose _i e( | (noz'led), a. Led by the nose; die- voo-of, disease, + yiveatf, production: see gene- 
mineral occurring in dodecahedral crystals, tated to domineered over. ***] Same as pathogenesis. 
also granular-massive, with a grayish, bluish, 
or brownish color. It is a silicate of aluminium and 
sodium containing also sodium sulphate, and is closely 
related to haiiyne, but contains little or no calcium. It noseless (noz'les), a. [< nose 1 + -less."] 
V CkPeCiaUy """ Andemach on titute or deprived of a nose. 
2. To pry curiously or in a meddlesome way. 
Perpetual nosing after snobbery at least suggests the 
snob. R. L. Stevenson, Some Gentlemen in Fiction. 
To nose in, in coal-mining, said of a stratum when it dips 
beneath the ground. [Eng.] To nose out. (a) In the 
fisheries, to swim high, with the nose out of water, as a 
fish. (6) In coal-mining. See the quotation. 
In advancing southwards along the synclinal axis, he 
[the observer] loses stratum after stratum and gets into 
lower portions of the series. When a fold diminishes in 
this way it is said to nose out. 
A. Geikie, Encyc. Brit., X. 301. 
nose' 2 t, n. A Middle English form of noise. 
nosean (no'ze-an), n. [Named after K. W. 
n'dron), n. [NL., < Gr. 
voo*of, disease, ~^~ dtv&pov, tree.] A genus of the 
coleopterous family Byrrhida, erected by La- 
treille in 1807. Two North American species are 
known ; others are found in the West Indies and Ceylon. 
It is considered by Lacordaire and others as worthy of 
tribal rank, and the tribal name Sosodendrides is in use. 
The principal characters are as follows : head inclined, 
not engaged in the thorax in repose; mentum covering 
the entire buccal cavity; labrnm distinct; antennae eleven- 
jointed, inserted under a reflected edge of the head. 
I 
a little, 
ed to; domineered over. <"*-J ' B#UI OM ' ,.-rr . . 
will not thus be nose-led by him. Ill even brusque it nOSOgeny (no-SOj'e-m), n. [< NL. wsogenw, < 
ttle, if he goes on at this rate. Scott, Woodstock, vii. Gr. v6aof, disease, + -ye veia, < -yevfo, producing : 
the Rhine. Also called no 
nose-ape (noz'ap), n. 
See cut at Nasalis, 
The proboscis-monkey. 
nose-bag (noz'bag), . A bag to contain feed ,,,., , r ' 
for a horse, having straps at its open end, by n ? el i ngt n (nO l hng) ' **' [ME ' 
which it may be fastened on the horse's head. - lm ^ On the nose - 
shak ^ T. and c., v. 5. 34. 
see -geny.~\ Same as pathogenesis. 
s " nosograpbic (nos-o-graf'ik), a. [< nosogrrtpliii 
+ -c.] Of or pertaining to nosography or the 
description of disease. 
Thus Charcot's famousthree states ornosographic groups 
were formulated in 1882, and have been much further 
studied by his pupils. Arner. Jour. Psychol., I. 497. 
; may be fastened on the horse's head." - ( "W-J <->n me nose. nOSOgraphical (nos-o-graf'i-kal), a. [< noso- 
Calm as a hackney coach-horse on the Strand, Felle doune itoselynge. graphic + -aL] Same as noso'grapnic. 
Tossing about his nose-bag and his oats. 286 - (UaUiweU.) nogographlcally (nos-6-graf 'i-kal-i), adv. With 
Wolcot (Peter Pindar), p. 266. (Dames.) nose lingst (noz'lingz), adv. [< ME. noselynggys, reference to nosography. 
nose-band (noz 'band), n. That part of a bri- 
dle which comes over the nose and is atta< " 
to the cheek-straps. Also called nose-piece. 
cut under harness. nose-ring. The nose-ornaments represented in write.] The description of diseases. 
nose-bit (noz'bit), n. In block-making, a bit Aztec sculpture are often of other than ring nosological (nos-o-loj'i-kal), a. [< nosolog-y + 
similar to a gouge-bit, having a cutting edge form. -ic-al."] Pertaining to nosology, or a systematic 
Also called slit-nose bit, shell- nose-piece (noz'pes), . 1. The nozle of ahose classification of diseases. 
e used to bore out timbers for O r pipe. 2. In optics, the extremity of the itube nosologist (no-sol'o-jist), n. [< nosolog-y + 
of a microscope to which the objective is at- -is(.] One who is versed in nosology; one who 
tached: the double (triple, quadruple) nose- classifies diseases. 
piece carries two (three, four) objectives, nosology (no-sol'o-ji), n. [= F. nosologie = 
any one of which may be quickly brought Sp. nosologia = Pg. nosologia, < Gr. v6aof, sick- 
j_i :..: T * : ti _ : * ness, disease, + -l.ayia, < Afym>, speak: see 
-ology.~\ A systematic arrangement or classi- 
fication of diseases; that branch of medical 
on one side of its end. 
auger, and pump-bit, because v 
r, and pump-bit, be 
pump- stocks or wooden pipes. 
nosebleed (noz'bled), . [< ME. noseblede; < 
nose 1 + bleed.] 1. A hemorrhage or bleeding 
at the nose ; epistaxis. 2. The common yar- 
row or milfoil. It was once reputed to cause bleed- 
ing when placed at the nose, and in love-divinations that 
effect presaged successful courtship. 
nose-brain (noz'bran), n. The olfactory lobes 
into position by turning the arm on a pivot. 
3. A nose-band. 4. In armor, same as na- 
x _ n ... ^ sal, 
of the brain; the rhin'encephalon. See second nose-pipe (noz'pip), . A blast -pipe nozle in- science which treats of the classification of 
cut under brain. side the twyer of a blast-furnace. diseases. 
nosebum (noz'bern), n. A pungent Jamaica nose-ring (noz'ring), n. 1. A circular ornament nosomycosis (nos"o-mi-k6'sis), n. [NL., < Gr. 
tree, Daphnopsis tinifoUa of the Thymrlwacea:. worn in the septum of the nose or in either of vorof, disease, -I- NL. mi/m.^is, q. v.] A disease 
nosed (nozd), a. [< nose 1 + -ed 2 .] Having a its wings. This ornament has been worn in the East produced by parasitic fungi, 
nose; especially, having a nose of a certain from very ancient times, and is still in use ampiig the more nosonom y (no-son'o-mi), H. [< Gr. vooof, sick- 
kind specified by a quafifying word : as, long- $$$&' & ^^7^toAS '**. ^ase,' + 6^a, name : see narnej The 
nosed; hook-nosed. through one of the wings of the nose; but the older classification and nomenclature of diseases. 
