NOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nosed mean? 

• NOSED (adjective)
  The adjective NOSED has 1 sense:

1. having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind

  Familiarity information: NOSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind

Similar:

hook-nosed (having an aquiline nose)

pug-nose; pug-nosed; short-nosed; snub-nosed (having a blunt nose)

sharp-nosed (having a sharply pointed nose)

tube-nosed (having a tubular nose)

Antonym:

noseless (having no nose)

 Context examples 

Oakland was his own town, and the reporters nosed out scores of individuals who could supply information.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which must have caused instantaneous death.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus we can trace our lineage back to old Vernon Stone, who commanded a high-sterned, peak-nosed, fifty-gun ship against the Dutch.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How many winter days have I seen him, standing blue-nosed, in the snow and east wind, looking at the boys going down the long slide, and clapping his worsted gloves in rapture!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Baron Rothschild's private secretary, a large-nosed Jew in tight boots, affably beamed upon the world, as if his master's name crowned him with a golden halo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had scurried around and nosed out Martin's family history, and procured a photograph of Higginbotham's Cash Store with Bernard Higginbotham himself standing out in front.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The one, austere, high-nosed, eagle-eyed, and dominant, was none other than the illustrious Lord Bellinger, twice Premier of Britain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There he hangs, the tutelary angel of this house, she cried, pointing with a grand sweeping gesture to a painting upon the wall, which represented a very thin-faced, high-nosed gentleman with several orders upon his coat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)