Nose \Nose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nosed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nosing.]
1. To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
2. 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.
3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal
twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.]
--Cowley.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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