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is repeated, it expresses negation or refusal with empha- || NOD/DEN, a. Bent; inclined. Thomson

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NO, a. 1. Not any; none. 2. Not any; not one. 3. When it precedes where, as in no where, it may be considered as adverbial, though originally an adjective.

NOB, n. The head, in ridicule. [A low word.]
NO-BILIA-RY, n. A history of noble families. Encyc.
NO-BIL/I-TATE, v. t. [L. nobilito.] To make noble; to
enoble.

NO-BIL-I-TATION, n. The act of making noble. More. NO-BIL/I-TY, n. [L. nobilitas.] 1. Dignity of mind; greatness; grandeur; elevation of soul. 2. Antiquity of family; descent from noble ancestors; distinction by blood, usually joined with riches. 3. The qualities which constitute distinction of rank in civil society according to the customs or laws of the country.-In Great Britain, nobility is extended to five ranks, those of duke, marquis, ear, viscount, and baron. 4. The persons collectively who enjoy rank above commoners; the peerage.

NOBLE, a. [Fr., Sp. noble; L. nobilis.] 1. Great; elevated; dignified; being above every thing that can dishonor reputation. 2. Exalted; elevated; sublime. 3. Magnificent; stately; splendid. 4. Of an ancient and splendid family. 5. Distinguished from commoners by rank and title. 6. Free; generous; liberal. 7. Principal; capital. 8. Ingenuous; candid; of an excellent disposition; ready to receive truth. 9. Of the best kind; choice; excellent.

NOBLE, n. 1. A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.-2. In Scripture, a person of honorable family or distinguished by station. 3. Originally, a gold coin, but now a money of account, value 6s. 8d. sterling.

NOBLE, v. t. To ennoble. Chaucer. NOBLE LIVER-WORT, n. A plant. NOBLE-MAN, n. A noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner. Dryden.

NOBLE-WOM-AN, n. A female of noble rank. NO'BLE-NESS, n. 1. Greatness; dignity; ingenuousness; magnanimity; elevation of mind or of condition. 2. Distinction by birth; honor derived from a noble ancestry. NO-BLESS, n. [Fr. noblesse.] 1. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively. Dryden. 2. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition; [obs.] Spenser.

NO BLY, adv. 1. Of noble extraction; descended from a family of rank. Dryden. 2. With greatness of soul; he

roically; with magnanimity. 3. Splendidly; magnifi

cently.

NO BOD-Y, n. [no and body. No person; no one. Swift. NOCENT, a. [L. nocens.] Hurtful; mischievous; injurious; doing hurt. Watts.

NOCIVE, a. [L. nocivus.] Hurtful; injurious. Hooker. † NOCK, n. A notch. See Nотсн.

NOCK, v. t. To place in the notch. Chapman.
NOCKED, a. Notched. Chaucer.

NOE-TAM-BU-LATION, n. [L. noz and ambulo.] A rising from bed and walking in sleep. Beddoes.

NOC-TAM-BU-LIST, n. One who rises from bed and walks in his sleep. Arbuthnot uses noctambulo in the

same sense.

NOC-TIDIAL, a. [L. noz and dies.] Comprising a night and a day. [Little used.] Holder.

Bringing night.

NOC-TIF ER-OUS, a. [L. noz and fero.] NOC-TIL/U-CA, n. [L. noz and luceo.] A species of phosphorus which shines in darkness.

NOC-TIL/U-COUS, a. Shining in the night. Pennant. NOC-TIVA-GANT, a. [L. noz and vagor.] Wandering in the night.

NOC-TIV-A-GATION, n. A roving in the night. NOC/TU-A-RY, n. [from L. noz.] An account of what passes in the night. Addison.

NOCTULE, n. [L. nor.] A large species of bat. NOCTURN, n. [L. nocturnus.] An office of devotion or religious service by night. Stillingfleet.

NOC-TURN AL, a. [L. nocturnus.] 1. Pertaining to night. 2. Done or happening at night. 3. Nightly; done or being every night.

NOC-TURN AL, n. An instrument chiefly used at sea to take the altitude of stars about the pole. NOCU-MENT, n. [L. nocumentum. Harm.

NOC U-OUS, a. [L. nocuus.] Noxious; hurtful. Bailey. NOD, v. i. [L. auto.] 1. To incline the head with a quick motion, either forward or sidewise, as persons nod in sleep. 2. To bend or incline with a quick motion. 3. To be drowsy. 4. To make a slight bow; also, to beckon with a nod.

NOD, v. t. To incline or bend; to shake. Shak.

NOD, n. 1. A quick declination of the head. 2. A quick declination or inclination. 3. A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep. 4. A slight obeisance. Shak. 5. A cominand.

NODA-TED, a. [L. nodatus.] Knotted. NO-DATION, n. [L. nodatio. The act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [Little used.]

NOD DER, n. One who nods; a drowsy person.
NOD DING, ppr. Inclining the head with a short quick

motion.

NODDLE, n. [qu. L. nodulus.) The head; in contempt NODDY, n. [qu. Gr. νωθης.] 1. A simpleton; a food. 2. A fowl. 3. A game at cards.

NODE, n. [L. nodus.] 1. Properly, a knot; a knob; hence, 2. in surgery, a swelling of the periosteum, tendons or bones.-3. In astronomy, the point where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic. 4. In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty. In dialing, a point or hole in the gnomon of a dial. NO-DOSE, a. [L. nodosus.] Knotted; having knots or swelling joints. Martyn.

a.

NO-DOSI-TY, n. Knottiness. Brown.
NO-DO SOUS,
NO DOUS,
NODU-LAR, a. Pertaining to or in the form of a nodule
or knot.

} [L. nodosus.] Knotty; full of knots.

NODULE, n. [L. nodulus.] A little knot or lump.
NODULED, a. Having little knots or lumps.

† NO-ETIC, a. [Gr. νοετικος.] Intellectual; transacted by the understanding.

NOG, n. [abbrev. of noggin.] A little pot; also, ale. Siriyt. † NOG GEN, a. Hard; rough; harsh. King Charles. NOG GIN, n. A small mug or wooden cup.

NOGGING, n. A partition of scantlings filled with bricks NOIANCÉ, n. Annoyance; mischief; inconvenience. NOIE, for annoy,

NOI ER, for annoyer, NOIOUS, troublesome.

Tusser.

NOINT, v. t. [Fr.oint.] To anoint. Huloot.

NOISE, (noiz) n. [Fr. noise.] 1. Sound of any kind. 2. Outcry; clamor; loud, importunate or continued talk expressive of boasting, complaint or quarreling. 3. Frequent talk; much public conversation.

NOISE, (noiz) v. i. To sound loud. Milton.

NOISE, (noiz) v. t. 1. To spread by rumor or report. 2
To disturb with noise; [not authorized.]
NOISED, pp. Spread by report; much talked of.
NOISE FUL, (noiz/ful) a. Loud; clamorous; making much
noise or talk. Dryden.

NOISE/LESS, (noizles) a. Making no noise or bustle; silent.

clamor. L'Estrange.

NOISE-MA-KER, (noiz/ma-ker) n. One who makes a NOIS/I-LY, (noiz'e-ly) adv. With noise; with making a noise.

NOISI-NESS, (noiz'e-nes) n. The state of being noisy; loudness of sound; clamorousness. NOISING, (noiz'ing) ppr. Spreading by report.

NOI SOME (noi'sum) a. [Norm. noisife; It. nocivo, noisso.] 1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive. 2. Noxious; injurious 3. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. Shak.

NOI'SOME-LY, adv. With a fetid stench; with an infec

tious steam.

NOI SOME-NESS, n. Offensiveness to the smell; quality that disgusts. South.

NOISY, a. 1. Making a loud sound. 2. Clamorous; turbulent. 3. Full of noise.

NOLENS VOLENS, [L.] Unwilling or willing; whether he will or not.

NO LI-ME-TANGE-RE, n. [L.; touch me not.] 1. A plant. 2. Among physicians, an ulcer or cancer, a species of herpes. Core.

NO-LIUTION, n. [L. nolo.] Unwillingness; opposed to volition. [Little used.]

† NOLL, n. [Sax. hnol, enoll.] The head; the noddle. NOMAD, n. [Gr. νομας, νομαδος.] One who leads a wandering life, and subsists by tending herds of cattle which graze on herbage of spontaneous growth.

NO-MADIC, α. [Gr. νομαδικος.] Pastoral; subsisting by the tending of cattle, and wandering for the sake of pas

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fixed or added to it.-4. [Gr. νεμω, to eat.] In surgery, a phagedenic ulcer, or species of herpes. NO-MEN-CLA-TOR,or NOM-EN-CLATOR, n. [L.; Fr. nomenclateur.] 1. A person who calls things or persons by their names. 2. In modern usage, a person who gives names to things. NO-MEN-CLA-TRESS, n. A female nomenclator. *NO-MEN-CLA-TU-RAL, a. Pertaining or according to a nomenclature. Barton.

• NO MEN-CLA-TURE, or NOM-EN-CLATURE, n. [L. nomenclatura.] 1. A list or catalogue of the more usual and important words in a language, with their significations; a vocabulary or dictionary. 2. The names of things in any art or science, or the whole vocabulary of names or technical terms which are appropriated to any particular branch of science.

NOMI-AL, n. [from L. nomen.] A single name or term in

mathematics.

NOMI-NAL, a. [L. nominalis.] 1. Titular; existing in name only. 2. Pertaining to a name or names; consist

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ing in names. NOMI-NAL, The Nominalists were a sect of NOMI-NAL-IST, school philosophers, the disciples of Occam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words, and not things, are the object of dialectics. NOMI-NAL-IZE, v. t. To convert into a noun. NOMI-NAL-LY, adv. By name or in name only. NOMI-NATE, v. t. [L. nomino.] 1. To name; to mention by name. 2. To call; to entitle; to denominate. 3. Το name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint. 4. Usually, to name for an election, choice or appointment; to propose by name.

NOMI-NA-TED, pp. Named; mentioned by name; designated or proposed for an office or for election. NOMI-NATE-LY, adv. By name; particularly. NOMI-NA-TING, ppr. Naming; proposing for an office or for choice by name.

NOM-I-NATION, n. 1. The act of naming or of nominating; the act of proposing by name for an office. 2. The power of nominating or appointing to office. 3. The state of being nominated.

NOMI-NA-TIVE, a. Pertaining to the name which precedes a verb, or to the first case of nouns. NOMI-NA-TIVE, n. In grammar, the first case of names or nouns and of adjectives which are declinable.

NOMI-NA-TOR, n. One that nominates.

NOM-I-NEE, R. 1. In law, the person who is named to receive a copy-hold estate on surrender of it to the lord; the cestay que use, sometimes called the surrenderee. 2. A person named or designated by another. 3. A person on whose life depends an annuity.

NOM-O-THETIC,

γα. [Gr. νομοθετης.] Legislative;

NOM O-THETI CAL, enacting laws.

NON, ade. [L.] Not. This word is used in the English language as a prefix only, for giving a negative sense to words; as in non-residence.

NON-A-BIL-1-TY, n. A want of ability; in law, an excерtion taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.

NON AGE, n. [non and age.] Minority; the time of life before a person, according to the laws of his country, becomes of age to manage his own concerns.

NON AGED, 4. Not having due maturity; being in nonage. NON-A-GEST-MAL, a. [L. nonagesimus.] Noting the 90th degree of the ecliptic; being in the highest point of the ecliptic.

NON A-GON, n. [L. nonus, and Gr. γωνια.] A figure having nine sides and nine angles. Bailey.

NON-AP-PEARANCE, n. Default of appearance, as in

court,

to prosecute or defend.

NON-AP-POINT MENT, . Neglect of appointment. NON-AT-TENDANCE, n. A failure to attend; omission of attendance.

NON-AT-TENTION, n. Inattention. Strift.
NON-BU-TOMI-NOUS, a. Containing no bitumen.

NONCE, . Purpose; intent; design. Spenser. NON-CLAIM, n. A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim. Bailey.

NON-COM-MONION, n. Neglect or failure of communion. NON-COM-PLIANCE, n. Neglect or failure of compli

ance.

NON-COM-PLYING, a. Neglecting or refusing to comply. NON COM POS MENTIS, or NON COMPOS, [L.] Not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; as a sous, an idiot: a lunatic.

NON-CON-DUCTING, a. Not conducting; not transmitting another fluid.

NON-CON-DUC/TION, n. A non-conducting. Ure. NON-CON-DUCTOR, A. A substance which does not conduct, that is, transmit another substance or fluid, or which transmits it with difficulty.

NON-CON-FORMING, a. Not joining in the established

religion.

NON-CON-FORMIST, n. One who neglects or refuses to conform to the rites and mode of worship of an estab. lished church. Swift.

NON-CON-FORMITY, n. 1. Neglect or failure of conformity. 2. The neglect or refusal to unite with an established church in its rites and mode of worship.

NON-CON-TAGIOUS, a. Not contagious. NON-CON-TAGIOUS-NESS, n. The quality or state of being not communicable from a diseased to a healthy body.

NON-CO-TEM-PO-RA/NE-OUS, a. Not being cotemporary, or not of cotemporary origin. Journ. of Science. NON-DE-SCRIPT, a. [L. non and descriptus.] That has not been described.

NON-DE-SCRIPT', n. Any thing that has not been described.

* NONE, a. [Sax. nan; ne and ane.] 1. Not one. 2. Not any; not a part; not the least portion. 3. It was formerly used before nouns; as, none other. This use is obsolete; we now use no. 4. It is used as a substitute, the noun being omitted. 5. In the following phrase, it is used for nothing, or no concern. "Israel would none of me," that is, Israel would not listen to me at all. 6. As a substitute, none has a plural signification; as, "terms of peace were none vouchsafed."

NON-E-LECT', n. [L. non and electus.] One who is not elected or chosen to salvation. Huntington. NON-E-LECTRIC, a. Conducting the electric fluid. NON-E-LECTRIC, n. A substance that is not an electric, or which transmits the fluid; as metals. NON-EM-PΗΛΤΙΕ, a. Having no emphasis; unemNON-EM-PHATI-CAL, phatic. Beattie.

NON-EN'TI-TY, n. 1. Non-existence; the negation of being. Bentley. 2. A thing not existing. NON-E-PIS/CO-PAL, a. Not episcopal; not of the episcopal church or denomination. J. M. Mason. NON-E-PIS-CO-PA LI-AN, n. One who does not belong to the episcopal church or denomination. J. M. Mason. NONES, n. plu. [L. nona.] 1. In the Roman calendar, the fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July and October. The nones were nine days from the ides. 2. Prayers, formerly so called. Todd.

NON-ES-SENTIAL; n. Non-essentials are things not essential to a particular purpose. J. M. Mason.

* NONE/SUCH, n. [none and such.] 1. An extraordinary thing; a thing that has not its equal. 2. A plant of the genus lychnis. Lee.

NON-EX-E-COTION, n. Neglect of execution; non-performance.

NON-EX-ISTENCE, n. 1. Absence of existence; the negation of being. 2. A thing that has no existence or being. NON-EX-POR-TATION, n. A failure of exportation; a

not exporting goods or commodities. NO-NILLION, n. [L. nonus and million.] The number of nine million millions.

NON-IM-POR-TATION, n. Want or failure of importation; a not importing goods.

NON-JORING, a. [L. non and juro.] Not swearing allegiance; an epithet applied to the party in Great Britian that would not swear allegiance to the Hanoverian family and government.

NON-JO ROR, n. In Great Britain, one who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the government and crown of England at the revolution, when James II. abdicated the throne, and the Hanoverian family was introduced. NON-MAN-U-FACTUR-ING, a. Not carrying on manufactures. Hamilton.

NON-ME-TAL/LIC, a. Not consisting of metal. NON-NATURALS, n. In medicine, things which, by the abuse of them, become the causes of disease.

NONINY. The same as ninny.

NON-OB-SERVIANCE, n. Neglect or failure to observe or

fulfil.

NON OB-STANTE. [L.; notwithstanding.] A clause used in statutes and letters patent. Encyc.

NON-PA-REIL/, (non-pa-rel') n. [Fr. non and pareil | 1. Excellence unequaled. 2. A sort of apple. 3. A sort of printing type very small, and the smallest now used except three.

NON-PA-REILL/, (non-pa-rel') a. Having no equal; peerless.

NON-PAYMENT, n. Neglect of payment. S. E. Dwight. NONPLUS, n. [L. non and plus.) Puzzle; insuperable difficulty; a state in which one is unable to procee...

NON PLUS, e. t. To puzzle; to confound; to put to a
stand; to stop by embarrassment. Dryden.
NON-PON-DER OST-TY, R. Destitution of weight; levity
NON-PON DER-OUS, a. Having no weight.
NON-PRO-DUCTION, n. A failure to produce or exhibit.
NON PRO-FUCIEN CY, n. Failure to make progress.
NON-PRO FIT CIENT, #. One who has failed to improve
or make progress in any study or pursuit.

VON PROS. (contraction of nolle prosequi, the plaintiff || NORTH-EAST', n. The point between the north and east, • Ste Synopsis, MOVE, BOOK, DOVE ;—BIILL, UNITE.-Cas K; Gas J; 8 as Z : CH as SH; TH as in this. † Obsoleto.

will not prosecute.] It is used also as a verb. NON-RE-GARDANCE, n. Want of due regard.

NON-REN-DITION, n. Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due.

NON-RE-SEMBLANCE, n. Unlikeness; dissimilarity. NON-RESI-DENCE, n. Failure or neglect of residing at the place where one is stationed, or where official duties require one to reside, or on one's own lands.

NON-RES/I-DENT, a. Not residing in a particular place,

on one's own estate, or in one's proper place. NON-RESI-DENT, n. One who does not reside on one's own lands, or in the place where official duties require. NON-RE-SISTANCE, n. The omission of resistance; pas

sive obedience; submission to authority. NON-RE-SISTANT, a. Making no resistance to power or oppression. Arbuthnot.

NON-SANE, a. [L. non and sanus.] Unsound; not per

fect.

NON SENSE, n. 1. No sense; words or language which have no meaning, or which convey no just ideas; absurdity. 2 Trifles; things of no importance. NON-SENSI-CAL, a. Unmeaning; absurd; foolish. NON-SENSI-CAL-LY, adv. Absurdly; without meaning. NON-SENSI-CAL-NESS, n. Jargon; absurdity; that which conveys no proper ideas. NON-SENSI-TIVE, a. Wanting sense or perception. NON-SO-LUTION, n. Failure of solution or explanation. NON-SOLVEN-CY, n. Inability to pay debts. NON-SOLVENT, a. Not able to pay debts; insolvent. NON-SPARING, a. Sparing none; all-destroying; merciless. Shak.

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NON SUIT, a. Nonsuited. Tyng's Rep.

NON SUIT-ED, pp. Adjudged to have deserted the suit by default of appearance; as a plaintiff.

NON SUIT-ING, ppr. Adjudging to have abandoned the suit by non-appearance or other neglect. NON-USANCE, (non-yü'zance) n. Neglect of use. Brown. NON-U/SER, (non-yūzer) n. 1. A not using; failure to use; neglect of official duty. 2. Neglect or omission

of use.

NOODLE, n. A simpleton. [A vulgar word.] NOOK, n. A corner; a narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies. Milton.

NOON, n. [Sax. non; D. noen.] 1. The middle of the day; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock. 2. Dryden used the word for midnight.

NOON, a. Meridional. Young.

NOON DAY, n. Mid-day; twelve o'clock in the day. NOON DAY, a. Pertaining to mid-day; meridional. NOONING, n. Repose at noon; sometimes, repast at noon. NOON'STEAD, n. The station of the sun at noon. NOON TIDE, n. The time of noon; mid-day. NOON'TIDE, a. Pertaining to noon; meridional. * NOOSE, (nooz) n. [Ir. nas.] A running knot, which binds the closer the more it is drawn. Hudibras. NOOSE, (nooz) v. t. To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

NOPAL, n. A plant of the genus cactus.

NOPE, n. A provincial name for the bullfinch. Dict. NOR, connective. [ne and or.] 1. A word that denies or renders negative the second or subsequent part of a proposition, or a proposition following another negative proposition; correlative to neither or not. 2. Nor sometimes begins a sentence, but in this case a negative proposition has preceded it in the foregoing sentence. 3. In some cases, usually in poetry, neither is omitted, and the negation which it would express is included in nor. 4. Sometimes, in poetry, nor is used for neither, in the first part of the proposition.

NOR MAL, a. [L. normalis.] 1. According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. 2. According to a rule or principle. 3. Relating to rudiments or elements; teaching rudiments or first principles.

NOR MAN, n. In seamen's language, a short wooden bar to be thrust into a hole of the windlass, on which to fasten the cable.

NOR'MAN, n. [north-man, or nord-man.] A Norwegian, or & native of Normandy.

NOR MAN, a. Pertaining to Normandy.

NOR ROY, n. [north and roy.] The title of the third of the three kings at arms or provincial heralds.

NORTH, n. [Sax. north; G., Sw., Dan. nord; D. noord: It. norte, Fr. nord.] One of the cardinal points, being that point of the horizon which is directly opposite to the sun in the meridian.

NORTH, a. Being in the north; as, the north polar star.

at an equal distance from each. NORTH-EAST', a. Pertaining to the north-east, or proceed ing from that point.

NORTH'ER-LY a. Being towards the north, or nearer towards the north than to any other cardinal point.

NORTH ER-LY, adv. 1. Towards the north. 2. In a northern direction. 3. Proceeding from a northern point NORTHERM, a. 1. Being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction towards the north, or a point near it.

† NORTHERN-LY, adv. Toward the north. Hakewul. NORTHING, n. 1. The motion or distance of a planet from the equator northward. 2. Course or distance north ward of the equator.

NORTH-STAR, n. The north polar star. NORTH WARD, a. [Sax. north and weard.] Being towards the north.

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NOR-WE'GI-AN, a. Belonging to Norway.
NOR-WE/GI-AN, n. A native of Norway.

NOSE, n. [Sax. nose, nase, nase; G. nase.] 1. The promi nent part of the face which is the organ of smell, consisting of two similar cavities called nostrils. 2. The end of any thing. 3. Scent; sagacity. To lead by the nose, to lead blindly. To be led by the nose, to follow another obsequiously, or to be led without resistance or inquiring the reason.- To thrust one's nose into the affairs of others, to meddle officiously in other people's matters; to be a busy-body. To put one's nose out of joint, to alienate the affections from another.

NOSE, v. t. 1. To smell; to scent. Shak. 2. To face; to oppose to the face. Wood.

† NOSE, v. i. To look big; to bluster. Shak.

NOSE BLEED, n. 1. A hemorrhage or bleeding at the nose. 2. A plant of the genus achillea. NOSED, a. 1. Having a nose. 2. Having sagacity. NOSE-FISH, M. A fish of the leather-mouthed kind, with a flat blunt snout; called, also, broad-snout. NOSE/GAY, n. [nose, and Celtic geac.] A bunch of flowers used to regale the sense of smelling. NOSE/LESS, a. Destitute of a nose. Shak. NÖSE-SMART, n. A plant, nasturtium; cresses. NOSE THRIL. See NOSTRIL.

NOS'LE, n. A little nose; the extremity of a thing. Ste NOZZLE.

NOS-O-LOGI-CAL, a. Pertaining to nosology, or a systematic classification of diseases.

NO-SOLO-GIST, w. One who classifies diseases, arranges them in order, and gives them suitable names. NO-SOLO-GY, n. [Gr. νοσος and λογος.] 1. A treatise on diseases, or a systematic arrangement or classification of diseases. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of the classification of diseases.

NO-SO-PO-ET1€, α. [Gr. νοσος and ποιεω.] Producing diseases. [Little used.] Arbuthnot.

NOS TRIL, n. [Sax. nosethyrl, nasethyrl.) An aperture or passage through the nose. The nostrils are the passages through which air is inhaled and exhaled in respiration. NOSTRUM, n. [L., from noster.] A medicine, the ingre dients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restriting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor.

NOT, adr. [Sax. naht, or noht; G. nicht: Scot. nocht.] 1. A word that expresses negation, denial or refusal. 2. With the substantive verb, it denies being, or denotes ex tinction of existence.

* NOTA-BLE, a. [Fr. notable; L. notabilis.] 1. Remark able; worthy of notice; memorable; observable; distinguished or noted. 2. Active; industrious; careful.-3. In Scripture, conspicuous; sightly. 4. Notorious. Matt. xxvii. 5. Terrible. Acts ii. 6. Known or apparent. Acts iv.

NOTA-BLE, n. 1. In France, the nobles or persons of rank and distinction were formerly called notables. 2. A thinដ្ឋ worthy of observation.

* NOT'A-BLE-NESS, n. 1. Activity; industriousness; care; [attle used.] 2. Remarkableness.

* NOTA-BLY, adv. 1. Memorably; remarkably; eminently. 2. With show of consequence or importance NO-TARI-AL, a. 1. Pertaining to a notary. 2. Done or taken by a notary.

NOTA-RY, n. [L.notarius.] 1. Primarily, a person employed to take notes of contracts, trials and proceedinga in courts among the Romans. 2. In modern usage, an officer authorized to attest contracts or writings of any kind, to give them the evidence of authenticity. This officer is often styled notary public.

NO-TATION, n. [L. notatio.] 1. The act or practice of recording any thing by marks, figures or characters. 2. Meaning; signification; [unusaal.]

NOTCH, n. [qu. G. knicken.] 1. A hollow cut in any thing; a nick; an indentation. 2. An opening or narrow passage through a mountain or hill. United States.

NOTCH, v. t. To cut in small hollows. Pope. NOTCH-WEED, n. A plant called orach. Johnson, NOTE, for ne wote, knew not, or could not. Chaucer NOTE, n. [L. nota; Fr. note.] 1. A mark or token; something by which a thing may be known; a visible sign. 2. A mark made in a book, indicating something worthy of particular notice. 3. A short remark; a passage or explanation in the margin of a book. 4. Á minute, memorandum or short writing intended to assist the memory. 5. Notice; heed. 6. Reputation; consequence; distinction. 7. State of being observed; [1. u.] -8. In music, a character which marks a sound, or the sound itself. 9. Tune; voice; harmonious or melodious sounds. 10. Abbreviation; symbol. 11. A short letter; a ballet. 12. Annotation; commentary. 13. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt and promising payment.-14. Notes, plu. a writing; a written discourse; applied equally to minutes or heads of a discourse or argument, or to a discourse fully written. 15. A diplomatic communication in writing; an official paper sent from one minister or envoy to another.

NOTE, r. t. [L. noto.] 1. To observe; to notice with particular care; to heed; to attend to. 2. To set down in writing. 3. To charge, as with a crime; [obs.] NOTE, v. t. [Sax. hnitan.] To butt; to push with the horns. Ray.

NOTE-BOOK, n. 1. A book in which memorandums are written. 2. A book in which notes of hand are registered. NOTVED, pp. L. Set down in writing. 2. Observed; noticed. 3 a. Remarkable; much known by reputation or report; eminent; celebrated.

NOTED-LY, ade. With observation or notice. Shak. NOT ED-NESS, n. Conspicuousness; eminence; celebrity. NOTE LESS, 4. Not attracting notice; not conspicuous. NOTER, n. One who takes notice; an annotator. Gregory. NOTE/WOR-THY, a. Worthy of observation or notice. NOTIFING, n. [no and thing.] 1. Not any thing, not any being or existence; a word that denies the existence of any thing; non-entity; opposed to something. 2. Nonexistence; a state of annihilation. 3. Not any thing; not any particular thing, deed or event. 4. No other thing. 5. No part, portion, quantity or degree. 6. No importance; no value; no use. 7. No possession of estate; a low condition. 8. A thing of no proportion to something, or of trifling value or advantage. 9. A trifle; a thing of no consideration or importance. To make nothing of, to make no difficulty, or to consider as trifling, light or unimportant.

•NOTHING, adv. In no degree; not at all. Milton. NOTHING-NESS, n. 1. Nihility; non-existence. Donne. 2. Nothing; a thing of no value. Hudibras.

NOTICE, n. [Fr.; L. notitia.] 1. Observation by the eye or by the other senses. 2. Observation by the mind or intellectual power. 3. Information; intelligence by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received. 4. A paper that communicates information. 5. Attention, respectful treatment; civility. 6. Remark; obser

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ΝΟΤΙ-ΡΥ, τ. 1. [Fr. notifier: It. notificare, 1. To make known; to declare; to publish. 2. To make known by private communication; to give information of. 3. To give notice to; to inform by words or writing, in person or by message, or by any signs which are understood. U. 8. Journals of the Senate

NOTI FY-ING, ppr. Making known; giving notice to. NOTION, n. [Fr.; L. notro.] 1. Conception; mental ap

prehension of whatever may be known or imagined. 2 Sentiment; opinion. 3. Sense; understanding; intel lectual power; (obs.] 4. Inclination; in vulgar use. NOTION-AL, a. 1. Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical. Bentley. 2. Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful. NO-TION-AL/I-TY, n. Empty, ungrounded opinion. NOTION-AL-LY, adv. In mental apprehension; in con ception; not in reality. Norris.

NOTION-IST, n. One who holds to an ungrounded opinIon. Bp. Hopkins.

NO-TO-RIE-TY, n. [Fr. notorieté.] 1. Exposure to the public knowledge; the state of being publicly or generally known. 2. Public knowledge.

NO-TORI-OUS, a. [It., Sp. notorio; Fr. notoire,] 1. Pub licly known; manifest to the world; evident; usually known to disadvantage; hence almost always used in an ill sense. 2. Known, in a good sense. Shak.

NO-TORI-OUS-LY, adv. Publicly; openly; in a manner to be known or manifest. Swift. NO-TORI-OUS-NESS, n. The state of being open or known; notoriety.

†NOTT, a. [Sax. hnot.] Shorn. Chaucer. NOTT, v. t. To shear. Stowe.

NOT WHEAT, n. [Sax. hnot.] Wheat not bearded. NOTUS, n. [L.] The south wind. Milton. NOT-WITH-STANDING, [commonly, but not correctly, classed among conjunctions. The participle of withstand, with not prefixed, and signifying not opposing; nevertheless. It retains, in all cases, its participial signification. This word answers precisely to the Latin non obstante, and both are used with nouns, or with substitutes for nouns, for sentences or for clauses of sentences.

NOUGHT. See NAUGHT.

† NOUL, n. [Sax. hnol.] The top of the head. Spenser. NOULD, ne would, would not. Spenser.

NOUN, n. [altered from L. nomen.] In grammar, a name; that sound, or combination of sounds, by which a thing is called, whether material or immaterial.

NOUR ICE, n. [Fr. nourrice. A nurse. Sir T. Elyot. NOURISH, (nur'ish) v. t. [Fr. nourrir.] 1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with nutriment. 2. To support; to maintain by feeding. 3. To supply the means of support and increase; to encourage. 4. To cherish; to comfort. James v. 5. To educate; to instruct; to promote growth in attainments. 1 Tim. iv.

NOURISH, (nurish) v. i. 1. To promote growth. 2. Te gain nourishment.

† NOURISH, n. A nurse. Lydgate. NOURISH-A-BLE, (nur'ish-a-bl) a. Susceptible of nourishment. Grew.

NOURISHED, (nur'isht) pp. Fed; supplied with nutriment; caused to grow.

NOURISH-ER, (nur ish-er) n. The person or thing that nourishes. Milton.

NOURISH-ING, (nur ish-ing) ppr. 1. Feeding; supplying with aliment; supporting with food. 2. a. Promoting growth; nutritious.

NOURISH-MENT, (nurish-ment) n. 1. That which serves to promote the growth of animals or plants, or to repair the waste of animal bodies; food; sustenance; nutriment. 2. Nutrition; support of animal or vegetable bodies. 3. Instruction, or that which promotes growth in attainments.

NOURT-TURE. See NURTURE.

NOURSLE, e. t. To nurse up. Spenser.

NOURS LING. See NURSLING.

† NOUS LE, or NOUS EL, v. t. [corrupted from nursle.] To

nurse up.

† NOUS LE, or NOUS EL, v. t. To insnare; to entrap; as in a noose or trap.

NO-VAC-U-LITE, n. [L. novacula.] Razor-stone.
NO-VATIAN, n. In church history, one of the sect of No-
ratus, or Novatianus.

NO-VA TIAN-ISM, n. The opinions of the Novatians.
NO-VATION. See INNOVATION.
NO-VATOR. See INNOVATOR.

NOVEL, a. [L., novellus; It. novello; Sp.novel.] 1. New, of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; hence, unusual. 2. In the civil law, the novel constitutions are those which are supplemental to the code, and posterior in time to the other books. 3. In the common law, the assize of novel disseizin is an action in which the demandant recites a complaint of the disseizin.

NOVEL, n. 1. A new or supplemental constitution or decree. 2. A fictitious tale or narrative in prose, intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.

NOVEL-ISM, n. Innovation. [Little used.] Dering, NOV EL-IST, n. 1. An innovator; an assertor of novelty. 2. A writer of a novel or of novels. 3. A writer of news; [obs.] Tatler.

NOV EL-IZE, v. i. To innovate.

NOVEL-TY n. Newness; recentness of origin or introduction. Hooker.

NO-VEMBER, n. [L. from novem, nine; the ninth month, according to the ancient Roman year, beginning in March. The eleventh month of the year.

*NO VEN-A-RY, n. [L. novenarius.] The number nine; nine collectively.

*NOVEN-A-RY, a. Pertaining to the number nine. NO-VENINI-AL, a. [L. novem and annus.] Done every ninth year. Potter.

NO-VER/CAL, a. [L. noverca.] Pertaining to a step-mother;

in the manner of a step-mother.

NOVICE, n. [Fr.; L. novitius.] 1. One who is new in any business; one unacquainted or unskilled; one in the rudiments; a beginner. 2. One that has entered a religious house, but has not taken the vow; a probationer. 3. One newly planted in the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

NO-VITIATE, n. [Fr. noviciat.] 1. The state or time of learning rudiments.-2. In religious houses, a year or other time of probation for the trial of a novice. NO-VITIOUS, a. [L. novitius.] Newly-invented. NOVI-TY, n. [L. novitas.] Newness. Brown.

NOW, adv. [Sax., D., Sw., Dan., Goth. nu.] 1. At the present time. 2. A little while ago; very lately. 3. At one time; at another time. 4. Now sometimes expresses or implies a connection between the subsequent and preceding proposition; often it introduces an inference or an explanation of what precedes. 5. After this; things being so. 6. In supplication, it appears to be somewhat emphatical. 7. Now sometimes refers to a particular time past, specified or understood, and may be defined, at that time; as, he was now sensible of his mistake. Now and then. 1. At one time and another, indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. 2. Applied to places which appear at intervals or in succession.

NOW, n. The present time or moment.
NOW-A-DAYS, adv. In this age. Garrick.

NOWAY, adv. [no and way.] In no manner or de-
NO WAYS, gree.

NOWED, a. [Fr. nové.] Knotted; tied in a knot; used in heraldry. Encус.

† NOW/EL, n. [Fr. noel.] A shout of joy or Christmas song. Chaucer.

† NOWES, n. [Fr. nou.] The marriage knot. Crashaw. NOWHERE, adv. [no and where.] Not in any place or

state.

NO WISE, adv. [no and wise: often, by mistake, written noways. Not in any manner or degree.

NOXIOUS, (nok'shus) a. [L. nozius.] 1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious. 2. Guilty; criminal. 3. Unfavorable; injurious.

NOXIOUS-LY, adv. Hurtfully; perniciously. NOXIOUS-NESS, n. 1. Hurtfulness; the quality that injures, impairs or destroys; insalubrity. 2. The quality that corrupts or perverts.

ΝΟΥ, ΝΟΥ ANCE, NOYER, NOYFUL, NOYOUS,

NOY SANCE. See ANNOY and NUISANCE.

NOYAU, (noyo) n. A rich cordial.

NOZ'LE, n. [from nose.] The nose; the extremity of NOZZLE,

any thing; the snout.

† NUBBLE, v. t. [for knubble.] To beat or bruise with the fist. Ainsworth.

NU-BIFER-OUS, a. [L. nubifer.] Bringing or producing clouds. Dict.

NU BI-LATE, v. t. [L. nubilo.] To cloud. NOBILE, a. Fr.; L. nubilis.) Marriageable; of an age suitable for marriage. Prior.

NO BIL-OUS, a. [L. nubilus.] Cloudy. NU-CIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. nur and fero.] Bearing nuts. NO/CLE-US, n. [L.] 1. Properly, the kernel of a nut; but in usage, any body about which matter is collected. 2. The body of a comet, called, also, its head, which appears to be surrounded with light.

NU-DATION, n. [L. nudatio.] The act of stripping or making bare or naked.

NUDE, a. [L. nudus.] 1. Bare.-2. In law, void; of no

force.

NO DI-TY, n. [L. nuditas.] 1. Nakedness.-2. Nudities, in the plural, naked parts which decency requires to be concealed.-3. In painting and sculpture, the naked parts of the human figure, or parts not covered with drapery. NODUM PACTUM. [L.] In law, an agreement that is void or not valid according to the laws of the land. NU-GACI-TY, n. [L. nugaz.] Futility; trifling talk or behavior. More.

NU-GATION, n. [L. nugor.] The act or practice of trifling. [Little used. Bacon.

NOGA-TO-RY, a. [L. nugatorius.] 1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. Bentley. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.

NUISANCE, n. [Fr. nuisance.] 1. That which annoys NO SANCE,

}' or gives trouble and vexation; that which

is offensive or noxious.-2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage.

NUL, in law, signifies no, not any; as, nul disseizin. NULL, v. t. [L. nullus.) To annul; to deprive of validity; to destroy. [Not much used.] See ANNUL. NULL, a. [L. nullus. Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid.

† NULL, n. Something that has no force or meaning. NUL-LI-BI E-TY, n. [L. nullibi.] The state of being no

where.

NUL-LI-FIDI-AN, a. [L. nullus and fides.] Of no faith; of no religion or honesty. Feltham.

NUL/LI-FIED, pp. Made void.

NUL/LI-FY, v. t. [L. nullus and facio.] To annui; to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

NULLI-TY, n. [Fr. nullité.] 1. Nothingness; want of existence. 2. Want of legal force, validity or efficacy. NUMB, (num) a. [Sax. numen.] 1. Torpid; destitute of the power of sensation and motion. 2. Producing numbness; benumbing; [obs.]

NUMB, (num) v. t. To make torpid; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

NUMBED, (numd) pp. Rendered torpid. † NUMBED-NESS, n. Torpor; interruption of sensation. NUMBER, n. [Fr. nombre; L. numerus.] 1. The designation of a unit in reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating. 2. An assemblage of two or more units. 3. More than one; many. 4. Multitude. 5. In poetry, measure; the order and quantity of syllables constituting feet, which render verse musical to the ear. Poetry; verse.-7. In grammar, the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity or plurality.-8. In mathematics, number is variously distinguished.-Cardinal numbers are those which express the amount of units; as, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Ordinal numbers are those which express order; as, first, second, third, fourth, &c.

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NUMBER, v. t. [L. numero.] 1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of any sum, collection or multitude. 2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude; as, "he was numbered with the transgressors." Is. liii.

NUM/BERED, pp. Counted; enumerated.
NUMBER-ER, n. One that numbers.

† NUMBER-FUL, a. Many in number.
NUMBER-ING, ppr. Counting; ascertaining the units of a
multitude or collection.

NUM'BER-LESS, a. That cannot be counted; innumersble. Milton.

NUM'BERS, n. The title of the fourth book of the Pentateuch.

NUMBING, (num'ming) ppr. Making torpid.

NUM BLES, n. [Fr. nombles.] The entrails of a deer.
NUMB NESS, (num'nes) n. Torpor; that state of a living
body in which it has not the power of feeling.
NO MER-A-BLE, a. [L. numerabilis.] That may be num-

bered or counted.

NUMER-AL, a. [Fr.; L. numeralis.] 1. Pertaining to namber; consisting of number. 2. Expressing number, representing number; standing as a substitute for figures. 3. Expressing numbers.

NUMER-AL, n. A numeral character or letter. Astle.
NO MER-AL-LY, adv. According to number; in number.
NC/MER-A-RY, a. Belonging to a certain number.
NO/MER-ATE, v. t. To count or reckon in numbers; to
calculate. Lancaster.

NU-MER-ATION, n. [L. numeratio.] 1. The act or art of numbering.-2. In arithmetic, notation; the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words. NU MER-A-TOR, n. [L.] 1. One that numbers.-2. In arithmetic, the number in vulgar fractions which shows how many parts of a unit are taken.

NU-MERIC, a. [It numerico; Fr. numerique.] 1. BeNU-MERI-CAL, longing to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers.-2. Numerical difference is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. NU-MERI-CAL-LY, adv. 1. In numbers. 2. With respect

to number or sameness in number.

NO MER-IST, n. One that deals in numbers. +NU-MER-OS/I-TY, n. The state of being numerous. NO MER-OUS, [L. numerosus.] 1. Being many, or con sisting of a great number of individuals. 2. Consisting of poetic numbers; melodious; musical.

NO MER-OUS-LY, ade. In great numbers. NOU MER-OUS-NESS, n. 1. The quality of being numerous or many; the quality of consisting of a great number of individuals, 2. The quality of consisting of poetic numabers; melodiousness; musicalness.

NU-MIS-MATIC, a. [L. numisma.] Pertaining to money

coin or medals.

*NU MIS-MATICS, n. The science of coins and medals.

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