march vs nose

march

verb
  • To make steady progress. 

  • To have common borders or frontiers 

  • To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. 

  • To go to war; to make military advances. 

  • To cause someone to walk somewhere. 

noun
  • A region at a frontier governed by a marquess. 

  • Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages. 

  • Steady forward movement or progression. 

  • A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies. 

  • A political rally or parade 

  • Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music) 

  • The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand. 

nose

verb
  • To move cautiously by advancing its front end. 

  • To furnish with a nose. 

  • To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out. 

  • To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang. 

  • To detect by smell or as if by smell. 

  • To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to. 

  • To snoop. 

  • To push with one's nose; to nuzzle. 

noun
  • The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece. 

  • The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race. 

  • Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine. 

  • A downward projection from a cornice. 

  • The skill in recognising bouquet. 

  • A perfumer. 

  • An informer. 

  • A snout, the nose of an animal. 

  • A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. 

  • The power of smelling. 

  • Skill at finding information. 

  • The tip of an object. 

How often have the words march and nose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )