Definition of "nose" []

• The part of the human face or the forward part of the head of other vertebrates that contains the nostrils and organs of smell and forms the beginning of the respiratory tract. (noun)
• The sense of smell: a dog with a good nose. (noun)
• The ability to detect, sense, or discover as if by smell: has a nose for gossip. (noun)
• The characteristic smell of a wine or liqueur; bouquet. (noun)
• Informal The nose considered as a symbol of prying: Keep your nose out of my business. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I stuck my nose all the way down in there, and there was nothing other than *crinkled nose*."
• "The deformity sometimes consists in a lateral deviation of the nose, but more frequently in flattening of the bridge -- _traumatic saddle nose_."
• "Fracture of nasal bones -- Deformities of nose: _Saddle nose_; _Partial and complete destruction of nose_; _Restoration of nose_;"