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Definition of Nose out
1. Verb. Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling. "He can smell out trouble"
Definition of Nose out
1. Verb. (transitive) to find something using ones sense of smell. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To find something by searching. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) to defeat an opponent by a small margin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nose Out
Literary usage of Nose out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Lesbia cave herself the airs, and received the privileges of being the handsomest
woman in those parts, till Alice came, and PUT HER nose out OF JOINT, ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... and tells the judge if he can nose out an error; but the term is more generally
applied to a friend in the royal court, who will whisper a good word for ..."
3. The International Journal of Orthodontia and Oral Surgery (1921)
"Now comes the further reconstruction of building up of this tip and making the
flaps larger to bring the tip of the nose out. She had a perforation of the ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To put the nose out of joint, to supplant one in another's favour. Who...
.was verie well assured that it could bcc no other than his owne ..."
5. Lectures on the action of medicines by Thomas Lauder Brunton (1899)
"You may also do a considerable amount of good by washing the nose out with a weak
solution of some antiseptic. Thus, for example, it is recorded that ..."
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