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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Nŏg'ḡen, a. p. 889Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh. [Obs.] King Charles.Nŏg'ḡin, n. p. 889A small mug or wooden cup. 2. A measure equivalent to a gill. [Prov. Eng.]Nŏg'ḡing, n. p. 889A partition of scantlings filled with bricks.Noi'ançe, n. p. 889Annoyance; trouble; mischief; inconvenience. [Obs.] Shak.Noie, v. t. p. 889To annoy. [Obs.] Tusser.Noi'er, n. p. 889The same as ANNOYER. [Obs.] Tusser.Noils, n. pl. p. 889Short pieces and knots of wool separated by combing. Simmonds.Noint, v. t. p. 889To anoint. [Obs.] See ANOINT.Noi'oŭs, a. p. 889Annoying; troublesome. [Obs.] Tusser.Noise, n. p. 889Sound of any kind; audible tone; resonance perceptible to the ear; as, a loud noise; a shrill noise. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. 2. Especially…Noise, v. i. p. 889To sound loud. Harm those terrors did me none, though noising loud. Milton.Noise, v. t. p. 889To spread by rumor or report. All these sayings were noised abroad. Luke i. 65. 2. To disturb with noise. Dryden.Noise'fụl, a. p. 889Making, or attended with, much noise or talk; loud; clamorous. [Obs.]Noise'less, a. p. 889Making no noise or bustle; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. “So noiseless would I live.” Dryden.Noise'less-ly, adv. p. 889Without noise; silently.Noise'less-ness, n. p. 889A state of silence.Noi-sĕtte', n. p. 889(Bot.) A species of rose, deriving its name from Louis Noisette, of France. It is chiefly a running rose, and has, in its original type, a pink flower, and is without scent. By being hybridized with…Nois'i-ly, adv. p. 889With noise; with making a noise.Nois'i-ness, n. p. 889The state of being noisy; loudness of sound; clamorousness.Noi'sôme, a. p. 889Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome winds; noisome effluvia; noisome pestilence. 2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.…Noi'sôme-ly, adv. p. 889With a fetid stench; with an infectious steam.Noi'sōme-ness, n. p. 889Unwholesomeness; offensiveness to the smell; quality that disgusts.Nois'y, a. p. 889Making a noise or loud sound; clamorous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. “The noisy town.” Dryden.Nō-lā'nă, n. p. 889(Bot.) A genus of South American plants;—so called from their bell-shaped corollas.Nō'li-mē-tān'ge-re, n. p. 889(Bot.) (a.) A plant of different genera, as the balsamine or impatiens, so named because, on being touched when ripe, it discharges its seeds from the capsule with considerable force. (b.) A species…No-lī'tion, n. p. 889Adverse action of will; unwillingness;—opposed to volition. So long as the prayer is fervent, so long the man hath a no-lition and a direct enmity against the lust. Bp. Taylor.Nōll, n. p. 889The head; the noddle. [Obs.]Nol-lē'i-ty, n. p. 889The state of being unwilling; nolition. [Obs.]Nōl'le prōs'e-quī p. 889(Law.) To be unwilling to proceed; will not prosecute;—a phrase denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or…Nō'lo con-tēn'de-re p. 889(Law.) A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, equivalent to that of “guilty,” for all the purposes of that prosecution.Nom, n. p. 889Name. Nom de guerre (nōng-de-gār), literally, a name during the war; hence, a fictitious name, or one assumed for a time. — Nom de plume (nōng-de-ploom), literally, a name of the pen; hence, a name…Nōm'ad, n. p. 889One of a race, or tribe, that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of game or pasture. [Sometimes written also nomade.]Nōm'ade, n. p. 889See NOMAD.No-mā'di-an, n. p. 889The same as NOMAD. [Rare.]No-mād'ic, a. p. 889Pertaining to, or resembling, nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.No-măd'ic-al-ly, adv. p. 889In a nomadic manner.Nōm'ad-īsm, n. p. 889The state of being a nomad.Nōm'ad-īze, v. i. p. 889To lead the life of a nomad; 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…Nō'man-cy, n. p. 889The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.Nōm'arch, n. p. 890The ruler, or chief magistrate, of a district, or division of a province, as among the modern Greeks.Nōm'bles, n. pl. p. 890The entrails of a deer; the umbles. [Written also numbles.] Johnson.Nōm’bril, n. p. 890(Her.) A point half way between the fesse point and the middle base point of an escutcheon;—called also navel point. See ESCUTCHEON.Nōme, n. p. 890A province or tract of country. 2. (Anc. Gr. Mus.) Any melody determined by inviolable rules. 3. (Surg.) A phagedenic ulcer. Dunglison. 4. [Lat. nomen.] (Alg.) A term. [Obs.] See TERM.Nō'men-clā'tor, n. p. 890A 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…Nō'men-clā'tress, n. p. 890A female nomenclator.Nō'men-clāt'ūr-al, a. p. 890Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.Nō'men-clāt'ūre, n. p. 890A list, or catalogue, of the more usual and important words in a language, with their significations; a vocabulary or dictionary. [Rare.] 2. A peculiar system of technical names adopted by an…Nō'men-clāt'ūr-ĭst, n. p. 890One skilled in nomenclature.Nō'mi-al, n. p. 890(Alg.) A term. See TERM.Nōm'i-nal, a. p. 890Pertaining to a name or names; consisting in names. 2. Existing in name only; as, a nominal distinction or difference. He passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures. Macaulay.Nŏm'i-nal, n. p. 890A nominalist. [Obs.] 2. (Gram.) A word formed or derived from a noun, especially a verb so formed. [Rare.]Nōm'i-nal-ĭsm, n. p. 890The principles of the nominalists.Nōm'i-nal-ĭst, n. p. 890(Metaph.) One of a sect of philosophers in the middle ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only.Nŏm'i-nal-ĭst'ic, a. p. 890Pertaining to the nominalists.Nŏm'i-nal-īze, v. t. p. 890To convert into a noun. [Obs.]Nŏm'i-nal-ly, adv. p. 890In a nominal manner; by name, or in name only.Nŏm'i-nāte, v. t. p. 890To mention by name; to name. I could nominate some that, in effect, make the same reckoning of letters. Harney. 2. To call; to entitle; to denominate. [Rare.] Spenser. 3. To name, or designate by…Nōm'i-nate-ly, adv. p. 890By name; particularly. [Obs.]Nōm'i-nā'tion, n. p. 890The act of naming or nominating; the state of being nominated. 2. The power of nominating, or designating, to an office. “The nomination of persons to places being a prerogative of the king.”…Nŏm'i-na-tīve, a. p. 890Giving a name; naming; designating;—said of that case, or form, of a noun which stands as the subject of a verb.