"tell noses" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From tell (“to count, reckon, or enumerate”) + noses.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tells noses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telling noses",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told noses",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told noses",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tell<,,told> noses"
      },
      "expansion": "tell noses (third-person singular simple present tells noses, present participle telling noses, simple past and past participle told noses)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1684, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, The Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation of Algernon Sidney, Esq. for High-treason, B. Tooke, page 61:",
          "text": "Another Noble Lord, my Lord Clare tells you, that he had ſome Diſcourſe with my Lord Howard, and he ſaid, that if he were accuſed, he thought they would but tell Noſes and his busineſs was done.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1709, William Oldisworth, A Dialogue between Timothy and Philatheus, volume 1:",
          "text": "E'er they had toſs'd up Heads, or told Noſes, to prevent their being bloody, and to ſtay Fiſticuffs and Quarterſtaff.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “From Jonathan Swift to Robert Hunter”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XI, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I have not yet obſerved the tories noſes; their number is not to be learnt by telling noſes, for every tory has not a noſe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, William Goode, The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice, page 244:",
          "text": "This will be a very hard thing, especially for unlearned men to tell noses: we can know the opinion only of those Fathers who were the writers in every age, and whose writings have been preserved down to us; and who can tell, whether the major number of those Fathers who did not write, or whose writings are lost, were of the same mind with those writings we have?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of count noses (“to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-tell_noses-en-verb-mnl7dZK8",
      "links": [
        [
          "count noses",
          "count noses#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Synonym of count noses (“to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "count noses"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tell noses"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From tell (“to count, reckon, or enumerate”) + noses.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tells noses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telling noses",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told noses",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told noses",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tell<,,told> noses"
      },
      "expansion": "tell noses (third-person singular simple present tells noses, present participle telling noses, simple past and past participle told noses)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1684, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, The Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation of Algernon Sidney, Esq. for High-treason, B. Tooke, page 61:",
          "text": "Another Noble Lord, my Lord Clare tells you, that he had ſome Diſcourſe with my Lord Howard, and he ſaid, that if he were accuſed, he thought they would but tell Noſes and his busineſs was done.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1709, William Oldisworth, A Dialogue between Timothy and Philatheus, volume 1:",
          "text": "E'er they had toſs'd up Heads, or told Noſes, to prevent their being bloody, and to ſtay Fiſticuffs and Quarterſtaff.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “From Jonathan Swift to Robert Hunter”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XI, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I have not yet obſerved the tories noſes; their number is not to be learnt by telling noſes, for every tory has not a noſe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, William Goode, The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice, page 244:",
          "text": "This will be a very hard thing, especially for unlearned men to tell noses: we can know the opinion only of those Fathers who were the writers in every age, and whose writings have been preserved down to us; and who can tell, whether the major number of those Fathers who did not write, or whose writings are lost, were of the same mind with those writings we have?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of count noses (“to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "count noses",
          "count noses#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Synonym of count noses (“to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "count noses"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tell noses"
}