"nosewise" meaning in English

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        "3": "wise"
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      "expansion": "nose + -wise",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "nose + -wise",
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      "expansion": "nosewise (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916, Chicago's Health, page 216",
          "text": "What are these diseases which are spread nosewise and throat-wise? Here they are, chiefly: tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, pneumonia, cerebral fever, influenza and infectious colds […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, New Scientist (volume 92, numbers 1285-1286, page 894)",
          "text": "If you turn to face west again, you should be able to spot a much bigger, dimmer version of the Plough plunging nosewise towards the horizon. Just to confuse the modern stargazer utterly, this is not one constellation, but two."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By means of the nose."
      ],
      "id": "en-nosewise-en-adv-gVPARlHc",
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        [
          "nose",
          "nose"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "nosewise"
}

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        "2": "nose",
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      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "nose + -wise",
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1916, Chicago's Health, page 216",
          "text": "What are these diseases which are spread nosewise and throat-wise? Here they are, chiefly: tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, pneumonia, cerebral fever, influenza and infectious colds […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, New Scientist (volume 92, numbers 1285-1286, page 894)",
          "text": "If you turn to face west again, you should be able to spot a much bigger, dimmer version of the Plough plunging nosewise towards the horizon. Just to confuse the modern stargazer utterly, this is not one constellation, but two."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By means of the nose."
      ],
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        [
          "nose",
          "nose"
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