(folklore) A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.

A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. / A snout, the nose of an animal. / The tip of an object.

(intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end. / (intransitive) To snoop. / (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell. / (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.

The capital city of India, located in the national capital territory of Delhi. / (figuratively, metonymically) The government of India.

(archaic) A wet nurse. / A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. / A person trained to provide care for the sick.

(transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. / (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. / (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.

A nurse shark or dogfish.

Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth. / Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

(chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.

(transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract. / (intransitive) To get narrower.