Nose-ender, a straight blow delivered full on the nasal promontory.
Nose in the manger, TO PUT ONE’S, to sit down to eat. To “put on the nose-bag” is to eat hurriedly, or to eat while continuing at work.
Nose out of joint, TO PUT ONE’S; to supplant, supersede, or mortify a person by excelling him.
Noser, a hard blow, leading to a bloody or contused nose.—Pugilistic.
Notional, imaginative, full of ideas. Used in America to express a wife’s imaginations with regard to her husband’s doings.
Nouse, comprehension, perception.—Old, apparently from the Greek, νοῦς. Gaelic and Irish, NOS, knowledge, perception.
Nowhere, horses not placed in a race—that are neither first, second, nor third—are said to be NOWHERE, especially when this lack of position happens to favourites.
Number of his mess, when a man dies in the army or navy, he is said to “lose the NUMBER OF HIS MESS.”
Nurse, a curious term applied to competition in omnibuses. Two omnibuses are placed on the road to NURSE, or take care of, each opposition “bus,” one before, the other behind. Of course the central or NURSED bus has very little chance, unless it happens to be a favourite with the public. Recent legislation and tramways have done much to do away with NURSING. Nurse also means to cheat or swindle; trustees are sometimes said to NURSE property, i.e., gradually eat it up themselves.