Usually means: Central facial organ for smelling.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. nose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nose: Merriam-Webster
  3. nose, nose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nose: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nose, n'ose, nose: Wordnik
  8. nose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nose, Nose, Nose, Nose, Nose, Nose: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. nose: Wiktionary
  11. nose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. nose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. nose: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. nose: Dictionary.com
  15. nose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. nose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Nose (disambiguation), Nose, The Nose (Akutagawa short story), The Nose (El Capitan), The Nose (Gogol), The Nose (Gogol short story), The Nose (film), The Nose (opera), The Nose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Nose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. nose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. nose: Rhymezone
  21. nose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. nose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Nose: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. nose: FreeDictionary.org
  25. nose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. nose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. nose: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
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  4. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
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Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nose: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nose: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Nose: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Nose: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. nose: Medical dictionary
  10. Nose: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. NOSE: Acronym Finder
  5. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  6. nose: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nose, nose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Nose: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. nose: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Nose: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
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  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See nosed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
noun:  A snout, the nose of an animal.
noun:  The tip of an object.
noun:  The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
noun:  (horse racing) 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.
noun:  A perfumer.
noun:  The sense of smell.
noun:  Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
noun:  The skill in recognising bouquet.
noun:  (by extension) Skill at finding information.
noun:  (architecture) A downward projection from a cornice.
noun:  (slang) An informer.
verb:  (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
verb:  (intransitive) To snoop.
verb:  (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
verb:  (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
verb:  (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with a nose.
verb:  (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation) To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
verb:  (intransitive, aviation, nautical) To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.

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