The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nose \Nose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nosed (n[=o]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Nosing.]
To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
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To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder.
--Tennyson.A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority.
--Burke. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.]
--Cowley.To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to; meet.
To furnish with a nose; as, to nose a stair tread.
To examine with the nose or sense of smell.
To make by advancing the nose or front end; as, the train nosed its way into the station;
(Racing Slang) to beat by (the length of) a nose. Hence, to defeat in a contest by a small margin; also used in the form nose out.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To find using one's sense of smell.
WordNet
Usage examples of "nose out".
Now, without a proper pause to come around, I was struggling to keep my nose out of the tea, my paws sliding on the soggy mash at the bottom of the china pot.
You are always full of wild ideas, and the only time you pulled your nose out of your studies this week, it was to tell me how excited you were about Dr.
No one had gotten his or her nose out of joint following Yanakov’.
Murgatroyd, inside the parka, again wriggled his nose out into the stinging wind and withdrew it precipitously.