tell noses

== English == === Etymology === From tell (“to count, reckon, or enumerate”) + noses. === Verb === tell noses (third-person singular simple present tells noses, present participle telling noses, simple past and past participle told noses) (archaic) Synonym of count noses (“to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue”). === References === “tell noses”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.