NOBIL'ITATE, verb transitive [See Noble.] To make noble; to ennoble.

NOBILITA'TION, noun The act of making noble.

NOBIL'ITY, noun

1. Dignity of mind; greatness; grandeur; that elevation of soul which comprehends bravery, generosity, magnamimity, intrepidity, and contempt of every thing that dishonors character.

Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it.

They thought it great their sovereign to control, and named their pride, nobility of soul.

2. Antiquity of family; descent from noble ancestors; distinction by blood, usually joined with riches.

When I took up Boccace unawares, I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda.

3. The qualities which constitute distinction of rank in civil society, according to the customs or laws of the country; that eminence or dignity which a man derives from birth or title conferred, and which places him in an order above common men. In Great Britain, nobility is extended to five ranks, those of duke, marquis, earl, viscount and baron.

4. The persons collectively who enjoy rank above commoners; the peerage; as the English nobility; French, German, Russian nobility

NO'BLE, adjective

1. Great; elevated; dignified; being above every thing that can dishonor reputation; as a nobel mind; a noble courage; noble deeds of valor.

2. Exalted; elevated; sublime.

Statues, with winding ivy crown'd, belong to nobler poets for a nobler song.

3. Magnificent; stately; splendid; as a noble parade; a noble edifice.

4. Of an ancient and splendid family; as nobel by descent.

5. Distinguished from commoners by rank and title; as a noble personage.

6. Free; generous; liberal; as a noble heart.

7. Principal; capital; as the noble parts of the body.

8. Ingenuous; candid; of an excellent disposition; ready to receive truth. Acts 17:11.

9. Of the best kind; choice; excellent; as a noble vine. Jeremiah 2:21.

NO'BLE, noun

1. A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer; as a duke, marquis, earl, viscount or baron.

2. In Scripture, a person of honorable family or distinguished by station. Exodus 24:11. Nehemiah 6:17.

3. Originally, a gold coin, but now a money of account, value 6s. 8d. sterling, or $1 48cts.

NO'BLENESS, noun

1. Greatness; dignity; ingenuousness; magnanimity; elevation of mind or of condition, particularly of the mind.

His purposes are full of honesty, nobleness and integrity.

Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat build in her loveliest. The nobleness of life is to do this--

2. Distinction by birth; honor derived from a noble ancestry.

NOBLESS', noun

1. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.

2. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [In these senses, not now used.]

NO'BLEWOMAN, noun A female of noble rank.

NO'BLY, adverb

1. Of noble extraction; descended from a family of rank; as nobly born or descended.

2. With greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as a deed nobly done. He nobly preferred death to disgrace.

3. Splendidly; magnificently. He was nobly entertained.

Where could an emperor's ashes have been so nobly lodged as in the midst of his metropolis and on the top of so exalted a monument?

NO'BODY, noun [no and body.] No person; no one.

NO'CENT, adjective [Latin to hurt, from striking.] Hurtful; mischievous; injurious; doing hurt; as nocent qualities.

NO'CIVE, adjective Hurtful; injurious.

NOCK, noun A notch. [See Notch.]

NOCK, verb transitive To place in the notch.

NOCTAMBULA'TION, noun [Latin night, to walk.] A rising from bed and walking in sleep.

NOCTAM'BULIST, noun One who rises from bed and walks in his sleep. Arbuthnot uses noctambulo in the same sense; but it is a less analogical word.

NOCTID'IAL, adjective [Latin night, and dies, day.] Comprising a night and a day. [Little used.]

NOCTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin night, and to bring.] Bringing night. [Not used.]

NOCTIL'UCA, noun [Latin night, and to shine.] A species of phosphorus which shines in darkness without the previous aid of solar rays.

NOCTIL'UCOUS, adjective Shining in the night.

NOCTIV'AGANT, adjective [Latin night, and to wander.] Wandering in the night.

NOCTIVAGA'TION, noun A roving in the night.

NOC'TUARY, noun [from Latin night.] An account of what passes in the night.

NOC'TULE, noun [from Latin night.] A large species of bat.

NOC'TURN, noun [Latin by night.] An office of devotion, or religious service by night.

NOCTURN'AL, adjective [Latin night.]

1. Pertaining to night; as nocturnal darkness.

2. Done or happening at night; as a nocturnal expedition or assault; a nocturnal visit.

3. Nightly; done or being every night.

From gilded roofs depending lamps display nocturnal beams, that emulate the day.

NOCTURN'AL, noun An instrument, chiefly used at sea to take the altitude of stars about the pole, in order to ascertain the latitude. This may be a hemisphere, or a planisphere on the plane of the equinoctial.

NOCUMENT, noun [Latin To hurt.] Harm.

NOD, verb intransitive [Gr. contracted; a nod; to nod to beckon, a leap a spring; to leap, to throb or beat, as the pulse]

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; as nodding plumes.

The nodding verdure of its brow.

3. To be drowsy.

Your predecessors, contrary to other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding.

4. To make a slight bow; also, to beckon with a nod

NOD, verb transitive To incline or bend; to shake.

NOD, noun

1. A quick declination of the head.

A look or a nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss.

2. A quick declination or inclination.

Like a drunken sailor on a mast, ready with every nod to tumble down.

3. A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep.

4. A slight obeisance.

5. A command; as in Latin numen, for nutamen.

NODATED, adjective Knotted. A nodated hyperbola is one that by turning round crosses itself.

NODATION, noun [Latin To tie.] The act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [Little used.]

NODDEN, adjective Bent; inclined. [Not in use.]

NODDER, noun One who nods; a drowsy person.

NODDING, participle present tense Inclining the head with a short quick motion.

NODDLE, noun [Latin A lump; or from nod.] The head; in contempt.

Come, master, I have a project in my noddle

NODDY, noun

1. A simpleton; a fool.

2. A fowl of the genus Sterna, very simple and easily taken.

3. A game at cards.

NODE, noun

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. These points are two, and that where a planet ascends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node or dragons head; that where a planet descends to the south, is called the descending node or dragons tail.

4. In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty.

5. In dialing, a point or hole in the gnomon of a dial, by the shadow or light of which, either the hour of the day in dials without furniture, or the parallels of the suns declination and his place in the ecliptic, etc. in dials with furniture, are shown.

NODOSE, adjective [Latin Knot.] Knotted; having knots or swelling joints.

NODOSITY, noun Knottiness.

NODOUS, adjective Knotty; full of knots.

NODULAR, adjective Pertaining to or in the form of a nodule or knot.

NODULE, noun A little knot or lump.

NODULED, adjective Having little knots or lumps.

NOG, noun A little pot; also, ale.

NOGGEN, adjective Hard; rough; harsh. [Not used.]

NOGGIN, noun A small mug or wooden cup.

NOGGING, noun A partition of scantlings filled with bricks.

NOIANCE, noun [See Annoy.] Annoyance; trouble; mischief; inconvenience. [Not used.]

NOIE, for annoy is not in use.

NOIER, for annoyer is not in use.

NOIOUS, for troublesome is not in use.

NOISE, noun

1. Sound of any kind, or proceeding from any cause, as the sound made by the organs of speech, by the wings of an insect, the rushing of the wind, or the roaring of the sea, of cannon or thunder, a low sound, a high sound, etc.; a word of general signification.

2. Outcry; clamor; loud, importunate or continued talk expressive of boasting, complaint or quarreling. In quarreling, it expresses less than uproar.

What noise have we about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood?

3. Frequent talk; much public conversation.

Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages, and never caught the least infection.

NOISE, verb intransitive To sound loud.

Harm those terrors did me none, though noising loud.

NOISE, verb transitive

1. To spread by rumor or report.

All these sayings were noised abroad-- Luke 1:65.

2. To disturb with noise [Not authorized.]

NOISED, participle passive Spread by report; much talked of.

NOISEFUL, adjective Loud; clamorous; making much noise or talk.

NOISELESS, adjective Making no noise or bustle; silent; as the noiseless foot of time.

So noiseless would I live.

NOISILY, adverb With noise; with making a noise.

NOISINESS, noun The state of being noisy; loudness of sound; clamorousness.

NOISING, participle present tense Spreading by report.

NOISOME, adjective

1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as noisome winds; noisome effluvia or miasmata; noisome pestilence.

2. Noxious; injurious.

3. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.

Foul breath is noisome

NOISOMELY, adverb With a fetid stench; with an infectious steam.

NOISOMENESS, noun Offensiveness to the smell; quality that disgusts.

NOISY

1. Making a loud sound.

2. Clamorous; turbulent; as the noisy crowd.

3. Full of noise.

O leave the noisy town.

Nolens volens, [Latin] unwilling or willing; whether he will or not.

NOLITION, noun Unwillingness; opposed to volition. [Little used.]

NOLL, noun The head; the noddle. [Not used.]

NOMAD, noun [Gr. Living on pasturage, to distribute or divide, to feed. This verb is connected with Latin Nemus, a wood, a place over-grown with trees, and also a pasture, the primary sense of which is probably to spring or shoot, for the verb signifies among other things, to leap, to dance, and may be allied to Eng. nimble. Cattle originally subsisted by browsing, as they still do in new settlements.] One who leads a wandering life, and subsists by tending herds of cattle which graze on herbage of spontaneous growth. Such is the practice at this day in the central and northern parts of Asia, and the Numidians in Africa are supposed to have been so called from this practice.

NOMADIC, adjective Pastoral; subsisting by the tending of cattle, and wandering for the sake of pasturage; as the nomadic tribes of Asia.

NOMADIZE, verb intransitive To wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage; to subsist by the grazing of herds on herbage of natural growth.

The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the rivers Irtish, Oby, Kama and Volga.

NOMADIZING, participle present tense Leading a pastoral life and wandering or removing from place to place for the sake of finding pasture.

NOMANCY, noun [Gr. Name, and divination.] The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

NOMBLES, noun The entrails of a deer.

NOMBRIL, noun The center of an escutcheon.

NOME, noun

1. A province or tract of country; an Egyptian government or division.

2. In the ancient Greek music, any melody determined by inviolable rules.

3. In algebra, a quantity with a sign prefixed or added to it, by which it is connected with another quantity, upon which the whole becomes a binomial, trinomial, and the like.

4. [Gr. To eat.] In wurgery, a phagedenic ulcer, or species of herpes.

NOMENCLATOR

1. A person who calls things or persons by their names. In Rome, candidates for office were attended each by a nomenclator who informed the candidate of the names of the persons they met, and whose votes they wished to solicit.

2. In modern usage, a person who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the names of things in any art or science.

NOMENCLATRESS, noun A female nomenclator.

NOMENCLATURAL, adjective Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

NOMENCLATURE, noun [See Nomenclator.]

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; as the nomenclature of botany or of chimistry; the new nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

NOMIAL, noun A single name or term in mathematics.

NOMINAL, adjective

1. Titular; existing in name only; as , a nominal distinction or difference is a difference in name and not in reality.

2. Pertaining to a name or names; consisting in names.

NOMINAL, noun The Nominalists were a sect of school philosophers, the disciples of Ocham or Ocdcam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words and not things are the object of dialectics. They were the founders of the university of Leipsic.

NOMINALIST, noun The Nominalists were a sect of school philosophers, the disciples of Ocham or Ocdcam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words and not things are the object of dialectics. They were the founders of the university of Leipsic.

NOMINALIZE, verb transitive To convert into a noun. [Not in use and ill formed.]

NOMINALLY, adverb By name or in name only.

NOMINATE, verb transitive [Latin Name. See Name.]

1. To name; to mention by name.

2. To call; to entitle; to denominate.

3. To name or designate by name for an office or place; to appoint; as, to nominate an heir or an executor.

4. Usually, to name for an election, choice or appointment; to proposed by name, or offer the name of a person as a candidate for an office or place. This is the principal use of the word in the United States; as in a public assembly, where men are to be selected and chosen to office, any member of the assembly or meeting nominates, that is, proposes to the chairman the name of a person whom he desires to have elected.

NOMINATED, participle passive Named; mentioned by name; designated or proposed for an office or for election.

NOMINATELY, adverb By name; particularly.

NOMINATING, participle present tense Naming; proposing for an office or for choice by name.

NOMINATION, noun

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.

The nomination of persons to places being a prerogative of the king--

3. The state of being nominated. AB is in nomination for governor.

NOMINATIVE, adjective Pertaining to the name which precedes a verb, or to the first case of nouns; as the nominative case or nominative word.

NOMINATOR, noun One that nominates.

NOMINEE, noun

1. In law, the person who is named to receive a copy-hold estate on surrender of it to the lord; the cestuy que use, sometimes called the surrenderee.

2. A person named or designated by another.

3. A person on whose life depends an annuity.

NOMOTHETIC, adjective Legislative; enacting laws.

NOMOTHETICAL, adjective Legislative; enacting laws.

NON, adverb [Latin] 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-performance, non-existence, non-payment, non-concurrence, non-admission, non-appearance, non-attendance, non-conformity, non-compliance, non-communion, and the like.

NONAGE, noun [non, not, 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. Legal maturity of age is different in different countries. In this country, as in Great Britain, a mans nonage continues till he has completed twenty one years. nonage is sometimes the period under 14 years of age, as in case of marriage.

NONAGESIMAL, adjective [Latin Ninetieth.] Noting the 90th degree of the ecliptic; being in the highest point of the ecliptic.

NONAGON, noun [Latin Nine, and Gr. an angle.] A figure having nine sides and nine angles.

NONCE, noun Purpose; intent; design. [Not in use.]

NONE, adjective

1. Not one; used of persons or things.

There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Psalms 14:1.

2. Not any; not a part; not the least portion.

Six days shall ye gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none Exodus 16:26.

3. It was formerly used before nouns; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. This use is obsolete; we now use no; thou shalt have no assurance. This is none other but the house of God; we now say, no other.

4. It is used as a substitute, the noun being omitted. He walketh through dry places, seeking rest and finding none; that is, no rest. Matthew 7:1.

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; they would have no concern with me; they utterly rejected my counsels.

6. As a substitute, none has a plural signification.

Terms of peace were none vouchsafed.

NONES, noun

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.

NONESUCH, noun

1. An extraordinary thing; a thing that has not its equal.

2. A plant of the genus Lychnis.

NONILLION, noun [Latin Nine and million] The number of nine million millions.

NONPAREIL, noun nonparel'.

1. Excellence unequaled.

2. A sort of apple.

3. A sort of printing type very small, and the smallest now used except three.

NONPAREIL, adjective nonparel'. Having no equal; peerless.

NON'PLUS, noun [Latin not, and plus, more, further.] Puzzle; insuperable difficulty; a state in which one is unable to proceed or decide.

NON'PLUS, verb transitive To puzzle; to confound; to put to a stand; to stop by embarrassment.

Your situation has nonplussed me.

NON'SENSE, noun

1. No sense; words or language which have no meaning, or which convey no just ideas; absurdity.

2. Trifles; things of no importance.

NONSENS'ICAL, adjective Unmeaning; absurd; foolish.

NONSENS'ICALLY, adverb Absurdly; without meaning.

NONSENS'ICALNESS, noun Jargon; absurdity; that which conveys no proper ideas.

NONSENS'ITIVE, adjective Wanting sense or perception.

NONSUCH. [See Nonesuch.]

NON'SUIT, noun In law, the default, neglect or non-appearance of the plaintiff in a suit, when called in court, by which the plaintiff signifies his intention to drop the suit. Hence a nonsuit amounts to a stoppage of the suit. A nonsuit differs from a retraxit; a nonsuit is the default or neglect of the plaintiff, and after this he may bring another suit for the same cause; but a retraxit is an open positive renunciation of the suit, by which he forever loses his action. [See the Verb.]

NON'SUIT, verb transitive To determine or record that the plaintiff drops his suit, on default of appearance when called in court. When a plaintiff being called in court, declines to answer, or when he neglects to deliver his declaration, he is supposed to drop his suit; he is therefore nonsuited, that is, his non-appearance is entered on the record, and this entry amounts to a judgment of the court that the plaintiff has dropped the suit.

When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited--

NON'SUIT, adjective Nonsuited.

The plaintiff must become nonsuit

NON'SUITED, participle passive Adjudged to have deserted the suit by default of appearance; as a plaintiff.

NON'SUITING, participle present tense Adjudging to have abandoned the suit by non-appearance or other neglect; as a plaintiff.

NOO'DLE, noun A simpleton. [A vulgar word.]

NOOK, noun [See Nich.] A corner; a narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; as a hollow nook

NOON, noun [ said to be from naw, that is up or ultimate, that limits, also nine. I has been supposed that the ninth hour, among the Romans, was the time of eating the chief meal; this hour was three o'clock, P.M. In Danish, none is an afternooning, a collation.]

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. 'At the noon of night.'

NOON, adjective Meridional.

How of the noon bell.

NOON'DAY, noun Mid-day; twelve o'clock in the day.

NOON'DAY, adjective Pertaining to mid-day; meridional; as the noonday heat.

NOON'ING, noun Repose at noon; sometimes, repast at noon.

NOON'STEAD, noun The station of the sun at noon.

NOON'TIDE, noun [See Tide, which signifies time.] The time of noon; mid-day.

NOON'TIDE, adjective Pertaining to noon; meridional.

NOOSE, noun A running knot, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

Where the hangman does dispose to special friend the knot of noose

NOOSE, verb transitive To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to ensnare.

NO'PAL, noun A Plant of the genus Cactus, from which the cochineal is collected in Mexico; Indian fig or raquette. The fruit resembles a fig.

NOPE, noun A provincial name for the bullfinch or red tail.

NOR, conjunction, connective [ne and or.]

1. A word that denies ro renders negative the second or subsequent part of a proposition, or a proposition following another negative proposition; correlative to neither or not.

I neither love no fear thee.

Fight neither with small nor great. 1 Kings 22:31.

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

Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there. That is, neither Simois nor Xanthus.

4. Sometimes in poetry, nor is used for neither, in the first part of the proposition.

I whom nor avarice nor pleasures move.

NOR'MAL, adjective [Latin a square, a rule.]

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; as normal schools in France.

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

NOR'MAN, adjective Pertaining to Normandy; as the norman language.

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

NORTH, noun [I know not the origin of this word, nor its primary sense. It may have been applied first to the pole star, or to the wind, like Boreas.] One of the cardinal points, being that point of the horizon which is directly opposite to the sun in the meridian, on the left hand when we stand with the face to the east; or it is that point of intersection of the horizon and meridian which is nearest our pole.

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

NORTHE'AST, noun The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each.

NORTHE'AST, adjective Pertaining to the northeast or proceeding from that point; as a northeast wind.

NORTH'ERLY, adjective Being towards the north, or nearer towards the north than to any other cardinal point. [We use this word and northern with considerable latitude.]

NORTH'ERLY, adverb

1. Towards the north; as, to sail northerly

2. In a northern direction; as a northerly course.

3. Proceeding from a northern point.

NORTH'ERN, adjective

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; as, to steer a northern course.

NORTH'ERNLY, adverb Toward the north. [Not used.]

NORTH'ING, noun

1. The motion or distance of a planet from the equator northward.

As the tides of the sea obey the southing and northing of the sea--

2. Course or distance northward of the equator.

NORTH'-STAR, noun The north polar star.

NORTH'WARD, adjective Being towards the north, or nearer to the north than to the east and west points.

NORTH'WARD, adverb Towards the north, or towards a point nearer to the north than the east and west points.

NORTHWEST', noun The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each.

NORTHWEST', adjective

1. Pertaining to the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; as the northwest coast.

2. Proceeding from the northwest; as a northwest wind.

NORTHWEST'ERN, adjective Pertaining to or being in the northwest, or in a direction to the northwest; as a northwestern course.

NORTH'-WIND, noun The wind that blows from the north.

NORWE'GIAN, adjective Belonging to Norway.

NORWE'GIAN, noun A native of Norway.

NOSE, noun

1. The prominent part of the face which is the organ of smell, consisting of two similar cavities called nostrils. The nose serves also to modulate the voice in speaking, and to discharge the tears which flow through the lachrymal ducts. Through this organ also the air usually passes in respiration, and it constitutes no small part of the beauty of the face. In man, the nose is situated near the middle of the face; but in quadrupeds, the nose is at or near the lower extremity of the head.

2. The end of any thing; as the nose of a bellows.

3. Scent; sagacity.

We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.

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 enquiring 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, verb transitive

1. To small; to scent.

2. To face; to oppose to the face.

NOSE, verb intransitive To look big; to bluster. [Not used.]

NO'SEBLEED, noun

1. A hemorrhage or bleeding at the nose.

2. A plant of the genus Achillea.

NO'SED, adjective

1. Having a nose; as in long-nosed.

2. Having sagacity.

NO'SEGAY, noun A bunch of flowers used to regale the sense of smelling.

As on the nosegay in her breast reclined.

NO'SELESS, adjective Destitute of a nose.

NOSETHRIL. [See Nostril.]

NOS'LE, noun [from nose.] A little nose; the extremity of a thing; as the nosle of a bellows. [See Nozzle.]

NOSOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Nosology.] Pertaining to nosology, or a systematic classification of diseases.

NOSOL'OGIST, noun One who classifies diseases, arranges them in order and gives them suitable names.

NOSOL'OGY, noun [Gr. disease, and discourse.]

1. A treatise on diseases, or a systematic arrangement or classification of diseases with names and definitions, according to the distinctive character of each class, order, genus and species.

2. That branch of medical science which treats of the classification of diseases.

NOSOPOET'IC, a. [Gr. disease, and to produce.] Producing diseases. [Little used.]

NOS'TRIL, noun [Thyrl or thirel is an opening or perforation; thirlian, thyrlian, to bore, to perforate, to thrill, to drill. See Drill.] An aperture or passage through the nose. The nostrils are the passages through which air is inhaled and exhaled in respiration.

NOS'TRUM, noun [Latin from ours.] A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor.

NOT, adverb [See Naught.]

1. A word that expreses negation, denial or refusal; as, he will no go; will you remain? I will not In the first member of a sentence, it may be followed by nor or neither; as not for a price nor reward; I was not in sfety, neither had I rest.

2. With the substantive verb in the following phrase, it denies being, or denotes extinction of existence.

Thine eyes are open upon me, and I am not Job 7:1.

NOT'ABLE, adjective [Latin known; to know.]

1. Remarkable; worthy of notice; memorable; observable; distinguished or noted.

They bore two or three charges from the horse with notable courage.

Two young men of notable strength. 2 Maccabees.

2. Active; industrious; careful; as a notable woman.

[In both senses, this word is obsolete in elegant style, or used only in irony. The second sense is in colloquial use in New England.

3. In Scripture, conspicuous; sightly; as a notable horn. Daniel 8:5.

4. Notorious. Matthew 27:16.

5. Terrible. Acts 2:20.

6. Known or apparent. Acts 4:16.

NOT'ABLE, noun

1. In France, the nobles or persons of rank and distinction were formerly called notables.

2. A thing worthy of observation.

NOT'ABLENESS, noun

1. Activity; industriousness; care. [Little used.]

2. Remarkableness.

NOT'ABLY, adverb

1. Memorably; remarkably; eminently.

2. With show of consequence or importance.

NOTA'RIAL, adjective [from notary.]

1. Pertaining to a notary; as a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.

2. Done or taken by a notary.

NO'TARY, noun [Latin known.]

1. Primarily, a person employed to take notes of contracts, trials and proceedings 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.

NOTA'TION, noun [Latin to mark.]

1. The act or practice of recording any thing by marks, figures or characters; particularly in arithmetic and algebra, the expressing of numbers and quantities by figures, signs or characters appropriate for the purpose.

2. Meaning; signification.

Conscience, according to the very notation of the word, imports a double knowledge. [Unusual.]

NOTCH, noun [G. to crack or flaw. It seems to be the same word in origin as niche, nick.]

1. A hollow cut in any thing; a nick; an indentation.

And on the stick ten equal notches makes.

2. An opening or narrow passge through a mountain or hill. We say, the notch of a mountain.

NOTCH, verb transitive To cut in small hollows; as, to notch a stick.

NOTCH'-WEED, noun A plant called orach.

NOTE, for ne wote, knew not or could not.

NOTE, noun [Latin to know.]

1. A mark or token; something by which a thing may be known; a visible sign.

They who appertain to the visible church have all the notes of external profession.

2. A mark made in a book, indicating something worthy of a particular notice.

3. A short remark; a passage or explanation in the margin of a book.

4. A minute, memorandum or short writing intended to assist the memory.

5. Notice; heed.

Give order to my servants that they take no note at all of our being absent hence.

6. Reputation; consequence; distinction; as men of note Acts 16:1.

7. State of being observed.

Small matters, continually in use and note [Little used.]

8. In music, a character which marks a sound, or the sound itself; as a semibreve, a minim, etc. Notes are marks of sounds in relation to elevation or depresion, or to the time of continuing sounds.

9. Tune; voice; harmonious or melocious sounds.

The wakeful bird tunes her nocturnal note

One common note on either lyre did strike.

10. Abbreviation; symbol.

11. A short letter; a billet.

12. Annotation; commentary; as the notes in Scott's Bible; to write notes on Homer.

13. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt and promising payment; as a promissory note; a bank-note; a note of hand; a negotiable note

14. Notes, plural a writing; a written discourse; applied equally to minutes or heads of a discourse or argument, or to a discourse fully written. The advocate often has notes to assist his memory, and clergymen preach with notes or without them.

15. A diplomatic communication in writing; an official paper sent from one minister or envoy to another.

My note of January 10th still remains unanswered.

NOTE, verb transitive

1. To observe; to notice with particular care; to heed; to attend to.

No more of that; I have noted it well.

Their manners noted and their states survey'd.

2. To set down in writing.

NOTE it in a book. Isaiah 30:8.

3. To charge, as with a crime; with of or for.

They were both noted of incontinency.

NOTE, verb transitive To butt; to push with the horns. [Not used.]

NO'TED, participle passive

1. Set down in writing.

2. Observed; noticed.

3. Remarkable; much known by reputation or reprot; eminent; celebrated; as a noted author; a noted commander; a noted traveler.

NO'TEDLY, adverb With observation or notice.

NO'TEDNESS, noun Conspicuousness; eminence; celebrity.

NO'TELESS, adjective Not attracting notice; not conspicuous.

NO'TER, noun One who takes notice; an annotator.

NO'TEWORTHY, adjective Worthy of observation or notice.

NOTH'ING, noun [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. The world was created from nothing

2. Non-existnce; a state of annihilation.

3. Not any thing; not any particular thing, deed or event. nothing was done to redeem our character. He thought nothing done, while any thing remained to be done.

A determination to choose nothing is a determination not to choose the truth.

4. No other thing.

Nothing but this will entitle you to God's acceptance.

5. No part, portion, quantity or degree. The troops manifested nothing of irresolution in the attack.

Yet had his aspect nothing of severe.

6. No importance; no value; no use.

Behold, ye are of nothing and your work of naught. Isaiah 41:11.

7. No possession of estate; a low condition.

A man that from very nothing is grown to an unspeakable estate.

8. A thing of no proportion to something, or of trifling value or advantage.

The charge of making the ground, and otherwise, is great, but nothing to the profit.

9. A trifle; a thing of no consideration or importance.

Tis nothing says the fool; but says the friend, this nothing sir, will bring you to your end.

To make nothing of, to make no difficulty or to consider as trifling, light or unimportant.

We are industrious to presere our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.

NOTH'ING, adverb In no degree; not at all.

Adam, with such counsel nothing sway'd--

In the phrase, nothing worth, the words are transposed; the natural order being, worth nothing

NOTH'INGNESS, noun

1. Nihility; non-existence.

2. Nothing; a thing of no value.

NO'TICE, noun

1. Observation by the eye or by the other senses. We take notice of objects passing or standing before us; we take notice of the owrds of a speaker; we take notice of a peculiar taste of food, or of the smeel of an orange, and of our peculiar sensations. notice then is the act by which we gain knowledge of something within the reach of the senses, or the effect of an impression on some of the senses.

2. Observation by the mind or intellectual power; as, to take notice of a distinction between truth and veracity.

3. Information; intelligence by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; as, I received notice by a messenger or by letter. He gave notice of his arrival. The bell gives notice of the hour of the day. The merchant gives notice that a bill of exchange is not accepted.

4. A paper that communicates information.

5. Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

6. Remark; observation.

NO'TICE, verb transitive

1. To observe; to see. We noticed the conduct of the speaker; we notcied no improper conduct.

2. To heed; to regard. His conduct was rude, but I did not notice it.

3. To remark; to mention or make observations on.

This plant deserves to be noticed in this place.

Another circumstance was noticed in connection with the suggestion last discussed.

4. To treat with attention and civilities; as, to notice strangers.

5. To observe intellectually.

NO'TICEABLE, adjective That may be observed; worthy of observation.

NO'TICED, participle passive Observed; seen; remarked; treated with attention.

NO'TICING, participle present tense Observing; seeing; regarding; remarking on; treating with attention.

NOTIFICA'TION, noun [See Notify.]

1. The act of notifying or giving notice; the act of making known, particularly the act of givning official notice or information to the public, or to individuals, corporations, companies or societies, by words, by writing or by other means.

2. Notice given in words or writing, or by signs.

3. The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, citation, etc.

NO'TIFIED, participle passive

1. Made known; applied to things. This design of the king was notified to the court of Berlin.

2. Informed by words, writing or toher means; applied to persons. The inhabitants of the city have been notified that a meeting is to be held at the State House.

NO'TIFY, verb transitive [Latin known, and to make.]

1. To make known; to declare; to publish. The laws of God notify to man his will and our duty.

2. To make known by private communication; to give information of. The allied sovereigns have notified the spanish court of thier purpose of maintaining legitimate government.

3. To give notice to; to inform by words or writing, in person or by message, or by any signs which are understood. The constable has notified the citizens to meet at the City Hall. The bell notifies us of the time of meeting.

The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives, that he has approved and signed the act.

[Note. This application of notify has been condemned, but it is in constant good use in the United States, and in perfect accordance with the use of certify.]

NO'TIFYING, participle present tense Making known; giving notice to.

NO'TION, noun [Latin known; to know.]

1. Conception; mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined. We may have a just notion of power, or false notions respecting spirit.

Notion and idea are primarily different; idea being the conception of something visible, as the idea of a square or a triangle; and notion the conception of things invisible or intellectual, as the notion we have of spirits. But from negligence in the use of idea, the two words are constantly confounded.

What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.

Few agree in their notions about these words.

That notion of hunger, bold, sound, color, thought, wish or fear, which is in the mind, is called the idea of hunger, cold, etc.

2. sentiment; opinion; as the extravagant notions they entertain of themselves.

3. Sense; understanding; intellectual power. [Not used.]

4. Inclination; in vulgar use; as, I have a notion to do this or that.

NO'TIONAL, adjective

1. Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical.

Notional good, by fancy only made. A notional and imaginary thing.

2. Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful; as a notional man.

NOTIONAL'ITY, noun Empty ungrounded opinion. [Not used.]

NO'TIONALLY, adverb In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.

Two faculties notionally or really distinct.

NO'TIONIST, noun One who holds to an ungrounded opinion.

NOTORI'ETY, noun [See Notorious.]

1. Exposure to public knowledge; the state of being publicly or generally known; as the notoriety of a crime.

2. Public knowledge.

They were not subjects in their own nature so exposed to public notoriety

NOTO'RIOUS, adjective [Latin known.]

1. Publicly knwon; manifest to the world; evident; usually, knwon to disadvantage; hence almost always used in all ill sense; as a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice; a man notorious for lewdness or gaming.

2. In a good sense.

Your goodness, since you provoke me, shall be most notorious

NOTO'RIOUSLY, adverb Publicly; openly; in a manner to be known or manifest.

NOTO'RIOUSNESS, noun The state of being open or known; notoriety.

NOTT, adjective Shorn.

NO'TUS, noun [Latin] The south wind.

NOT'WHEAT, noun [smooth, shorn.] Wheat not bearded.

NOTWITHSTAND'ING, the participle of withstand, with not prefixed, and signifying not opposing; nevertheless. It retains in all cases its participial signification. For example, 'I will surely rend the knigdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant; notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for david thy father's sake.' 1 Kings 11:12. In this passage there is an ellipsis of that, after notwithstanding That refers to the former part of the sentence, I will rend the kingdom from thee; notwithstanding that (declaration or determination, ) in thy days I will not do it. in this and in all cases, notwithstanding either with or without that or this, constitutes the case absolute or independent.

'It is a rainy day, but notwithstanding that, the troops must be reviewed; ' that is, the rainy day not opposing or preventing. That, in this case, is a substitute for the whole first clause of the sentence. It is to that clause what a relative is to an antecedent noun, and which may be used in the place of it; notwithstanding which, that is, the rainy day.

'Christ enjoined on his followers not to publish the cures he wrought; but notwithstanding his injunctions, they proclaimed them.' Here, notwithstanding his injunctions, is the case independent or absolute; the injunctions of Christ not opposing or preventing.

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. So in the Latin phrase, hoc non obstante, hoc may refer to a single word, to a sentence or to a series of sentences.

NOUGHT. See Naught.

NOUL, noun The top of the head. [Not in use.]

NOULD, ne would, would not.

NOUN, noun [altered from Latin name.] In grammar, a name; that sound or combination of sounds by which a thing is called, whether material or immaterial. [See Name.]

NOURISH, verb transitive [G. to nourish cannot be the same word unless they have lost a dental, which may perhaps be the fact.]

1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply a living or organized body, animal or vegetable, with matter which increases its bulk or supplies the waste occasioned by any of its functions; to supply with nutriment.

2. To support; to maintain by feeding. Genesis 47:12.

Whilst I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, I will stir up in England some black storm.

3. To supply the means of support and increase; to encourage; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

What madness was ti, with such proofs, to nourish their contentions!

4. To cherish; to comfort. James 5:5.

5. To educate; to instruct; to promote growth in attainments. 1 Timothy 4:6.

NOURISH, verb intransitive

1. To promote growth.

Grains and roots nourish more then leaves. [Elliptical.]

2. To gain nourishment. [Unusual.]

NOURISHABLE, adjective Susceptible of nourishment; as the nourishable parts of the body.

NOURISHED, participle passive Fed; supplied with nutriment; caused to grow.

NOURISHER, noun The person or thing that nourishes.

NOURISHING, participle present tense

1. Feeding; supplying with aliment; supporting with food.

2. Promoting growth; nutritious; as a nourishing diet.

NOURISHMENT, noun

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; as nourishment and growth in grace.

So they may learn to seek the nourishment of their souls.

NOURITURE. [See Nurture.]

NOURSLING. [See Nursling.]

NOVAC'ULITE, noun [Latin a razor.] Razor-stone; Turkey-hone; coticular shist; whet-slate, a variety of argillaceous slate.

NOVA'TIAN, noun In church history, one of the sect of Novatus or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.

NOVA'TIANISM, noun The opinions of the Novations.

One Hypolitus, a Roman presbyter, had been seduced into novatianism

NOVATION. [See Innovation.]

NOVATOR. [See Innovator.]

NOV'EL, adjective

1. New; of recent origin or intorduction; not ancient; hence, unusual; as a novel heresy; novel opinions. The proceedings of the court were novel

2. In the civil law, the novel consititutions are those which are supplemental to the code, and posterior in time to the other books. These contained new decrees of successive emperors.

3. In the common law, the assize of novel disseizin is an action in which the demandant recits a complaint of the disseizin in terms of direct averment, whereupon the sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and chattels thereon, and keep the same in custody till the arrival of the justices of assize.

NOV'EL, noun

1. A new or supplemental constitution or decree. [See the Adjective.]

2. A fictitious tale or narrative in prose, intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.

The coxcomb's novel and the drunkard's toast.

NOV'ELISM, n Innovation. [Little used.]

NOV'ELIST, noun

1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

2. A writer of a novel or of novels.

3. A writer of news.

NOV'ELIZE, verb intransitive To innovate. [Not in use.]

NOV'ELTY, noun Newness; recentness of origin or introduction.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

NOVEM'BER, noun [Latin from nine; the ninth month, according to the ancient Roman year, beginning in March.] The eleventh month of the year.

NO'VENARY, noun [nine.] The number nine; nine collectively.

NOVENARY, adjective Pertaining to the number nine.

NO'VEN'NIAL, adjective Done every ninth year.

NOVER'CAL, adjective [Latin a step-mother.] Pertaining to a step-mother; suitable to a step-mother; in the manner of a step-mother.

NOV'ICE, noun [Latin from new.]

1. One who is new in any business; one unacquainted or unskilled; one in the rudiments; a beginner.

I am young, a novice in the trade.

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. 1 Timothy 3:6.

NOVI'TIATE, noun

1. The state or time or learning rudiments.

2. In religious houses, a year or other time of probation for the trial of a noveice, to determine whether he has the necessary qualities for living up to the rule to which his vow is to bind him.

NOVI'TIOUS, adjective Newly invented. [Not used.]

NOV'ITY, noun Newness. [Not used.]

NOW, adverb

1. At the present time.

I have a patient now living at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.

2. A little while ago; very lately.

They that but now for honor and for plate, made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

3. At one time; at another time.

NOW high, now low, now master up, now miss.

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.

Not this man, but barabbas; now Barabbas was a robber. John 18:14.

Then said Mich, now I know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest. Judges 17:3.

The other great mischief which befalls men, is by their being misrepresented. now by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander--

5. After this; things being so.

How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?

6. In supplication, it appears to be somewhat emphatical.

I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart. 2 Kings 20:3.

7. now sometimes refers to a particular time past specified or understood, and may be defined, at that time. He was now sensible of his mistake.

NOW and then, at one time and another, indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals.

They now and then appear in offices of religion.

If there were any such thing as spontaneous generation, a new species would now and then appear.

2. Applied to places which appear at intervals or in succession.

A mead here, ther a heath, and now and then a wood.

NOW, now repeated, is used to excite attention to something immediately to happen.

NOW, noun The present time or moment.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now does ever last.

NOW a days, adverb In this age.

What men of spirit now a days, come to give sober judgment a new plays?

[This is a common colloquial phrase, but not elegant in writing, unless of the more familiar kinds.]

NO'WAY, adverb [no and way.] In no manner or degree. [These can hardly be considered as compound words.]

NO'WAYS, adverb [no and way.] In no manner or degree. [These can hardly be considered as compound words.]

NOW'ED, adjective Knotted; tied in a knot; used in heraldry.

NOW'EL, noun A shout of joy or christmas song.

NOWES, noun The marriage knot.

NO'WHERE, adverb Not in any place or state. Happiness is nowhere to be found but in the practice of virtue.

But it is better to write no and where as separate words.

NO'WISE, adverb [no and wise; often by mistake written noways.] Not in any manner or degree.

NOXIOUS, adjective [Latin from hurt.]

1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as noxious air, food, climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as noxious practices or examples; noxious haunts of vice.

2. Guilty; criminal.

Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. [Little used.]

3. Unfavorable; injurious.

Too frequent appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotion.

NOX'IOUSLY, adverb Hurtfully; perniciously.

NOX'IOUSNESS, noun

1. Hurtfulness; the quality that injures, impairs or destroys; insalubrity; as the noxiousness of foul air.

2. The quality that corrupts or perverts; as the noxiousness of doctrines.

Noy, noyance, noyer, noyful, noyous, noysance. [See Annoy and Nuisance.]

NOYAU, noun A rich cordial.

NOZ'LE, noun [from nose.] The nose; the extremity of any thing; the snout.

NOZ'ZLE, noun [from nose.] The nose; the extremity of any thing; the snout.