Noisome – Noun

Noisome

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

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

Noisomeness

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

Noisy

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.

Noli-Me-Tangere

NOLI-ME-TANGERE, noun [Latin Touch me not.]

1. A plant of the genus Impatiens, called also balsamine; also, a plant of the genus Momordica, or male balsam apple, one species of which is called the wild or spurting cucumber.

2. Among physicians, an ulcer or cancer, a species of herpes.

Nolition

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

Noll

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

Nomad

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

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

Nomadize

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

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

Nomancy

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

Nombles

NOMBLES, noun The entrails of a deer.

Nombril

NOMBRIL, noun The center of an escutcheon.

Nome

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

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

NOMENCLATRESS, noun A female nomenclator.

Nomenclatural

NOMENCLATURAL, adjective Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

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

NOMIAL, noun A single name or term in mathematics.

Nominal

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

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

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

Nominally

NOMINALLY, adverb By name or in name only.

Nominate

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

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

Nominately

NOMINATELY, adverb By name; particularly.

Nominating

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

Nomination

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

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

NOMINATOR, noun One that nominates.

Nominee

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

NOMOTHETIC, adjective Legislative; enacting laws.

Nomothetical

NOMOTHETICAL, adjective Legislative; enacting laws.

Non

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.

Non-Ability

NON-ABILITY, noun A want of ability; in law, an exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.

Non-Appearance

NON-APPEARANCE, noun Default of appearance, as in court, to prosecute or defend.

Non-Appointment

NON-APPOINTMENT, noun Neglect of appointment.

Non-Attendance

NON-ATTENDANCE, noun A failure to attend; omission of attendance.

Non-Attention

NON-ATTENTION, noun Inattention.

Non-Bituminous

NON-BITUMINOUS, adjective Containing no bitumen.

Non-Claim

NON-CLAIM, noun A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

Non-Communion

NON-COMMUNION, noun Neglect or failure of communion.

Non-Compliance

NON-COMPLIANCE, noun Neglect or failure of compliance.

Non-Complying

NON-COMPLYING, adjective Neglecting or refusing to comply.

Non compos mentis, or non compose, [Latin] not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or by accident.

Non-Conducting

NON-CONDUCTING, adjective Not conducting; not transmitting another fluid. Thus in electricity, wax is a non-conducting substance.

Non-Conduction

NON-CONDUCTION, adjective Not conducting; not transmitting another fluid. Thus in electricity, wax is a non-conducting substance.

Non-Conductor

NON-CONDUCTOR, noun A substance which does not conduct, that is, transmit another substance or fluid, or which transmits it with difficulty. Thus wool is a non-conductor of heat; glass and dry wood are non-conductors of the electrical fluid.

Non-Conformist

NON-CONFORMIST, noun One who neglects or refuses to conform to the rites and mode of worship of an established church.

Non-Conformity

NON-CONFORMITY, noun

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-Contagious

NON-CONTAGIOUS, adjective Not contagious.

Non-Contagiousness

NON-CONTAGIOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being not communicable from a diseased to a healthy body.

Non-Cotemporaneous

NON-COTEMPORANEOUS, adjective Not being cotemporary, or not of cotemprary origin.

Non-Descript

NON-DESCRIPT, adjective [Latin Not, non, and described.] That has not been described.

NON-DESCRIPT, noun Any thing that has not been described. Thus a plant or animal newly discovered is called a non-descript

Non-Elect

NON-ELECT, noun [Latin non, not, and elected.] One who is not elected or chosen to salvation.

Non-Electric

NON-ELECTRIC, adjective Conducting the electric fluid.

NON-ELECTRIC, noun A substance that is not an electric, or which transmits the fluid; as metals.

Non-Emphatic

NON-EMPHATIC, adjective Having no emphasis; unemphatic.

Non-Emphatical

NON-EMPHATICAL, adjective Having no emphasis; unemphatic.

Non-Entity

NON-ENTITY, noun

1. Non-existence; the negation of being.

2. A thing not existing.

There was no such thing as rendering evil for evil, when evil was a non-entity

Non-Episcopal

NON-EPISCOPAL, adjective Not episcopal; not of the episcopal church or denomination.

Non-Episcopalian

NON-EPISCOPALIAN, noun One who does not belong to the episcopal church or denomination.

Non-Essential

NON-ESSENTIAL, noun Non-essentials are things not essential to a particular purpose.

Non-Execution

NON-EXECUTION, noun Neglect of execution; non-performance.

Non-Existence

NON-EXISTENCE, noun

1. Absence of existence; the negation of being.

2. A thing that has no existence or being.

Non-Exportation

NON-EXPORTATION, noun A failure of exportation; a not exporting goods or commodities.

Non-Importation

NON-IMPORTATION, noun Want or failure of importation; a not importing goods.

Non-Juring

NON-JURING, adjective [Latin Non, not, and to swear.] Not swearing allegiance; an epithet applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to the Hanoverian family and government.

Non-Juror

NON-JUROR, noun 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. The non-jurors were the adherents of James.

Non-Manufacturing

NON-MANUFACTURING, adjective Not carrying on manufactures; as non-manufacturing states.

Non-Metallic

NON-METALLIC, adjective Not consisting of metal.

Non-Naturals

NON-NATURALS, noun In medicine, things which, by the abuse of them, become the causes of disease, as meat, drink, sleep, rest, motion, the passions, retentions, excretions, etc.

Functions or accidents not strictly belonging to man.

Non-Observance

NON-OBSERVANCE, noun Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

Non obstante, [Latin Notwithstanding, ] a clause in statutes and letters patent, importing a license form the king to do a thing which at common law might be lawfully done, but being restrained by act of parliament, cannot be done without such license.

Non-Payment

NON-PA'YMENT, noun Neglect of payment.

Non-Ponderosity

NON-PONDEROS'ITY, noun Destitution of weight; levity.

Non-Ponderous

NON-PON'DEROUS, adjective Having no weight.

Non-Production

NON-PRODUCTION, noun A failure to produce or exhibit.

Non-Proficiency

NON-PROFI'CIENCY, noun Failure to make progress.

Non-Proficient

NON-PROFI'CIENT, noun One who has failed to improve or make progress in any study or pursuit.

Non Pros. contraction of nolle prosequi, the plaintiff will not prosecute. It is used also as a verb.

Non-Regardance

NON-REG'ARDANCE, noun Want of due regard.

Non-Rendition

NON-RENDI'TION, noun Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due.

The non-payment of a debt, or the non-rendition of a service which is due, is an injury for which the subsequent reparation of the loss sustained- is and atonement.

Non-Resemblance

NON-RESEM'BLANCE, noun Unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Non-Residence

NON-RES'IDENCE, noun 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-Resident

NON-RES'IDENT, adjective Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as a non-resident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

NON-RES'IDENT, noun One who does not reside on one's own lands, or in the place 2where official duties require. In the United States, lands in one state or township belonging to a person residing in another state or township, are called the lands of non-residents.

Non-Resistance

NON-RESIST'ANCE, noun The omission of resistance; passive obedience; submission to authority, power or usurpation without opposition.

Non-Resistant

NON-RESIST'ANT, adjective Making no resistance to power or oppression.

Non-Sane

NON-SA'NE, adjective [Latin non, not, and sound.] Unsound; not perfect; as a person of nonsane memory.

Non-Solution

NON-SOLU'TION, noun Failure of solution or explanation.

Non-Solvency

NON-SOLV'ENCY, noun Inablility to pay debts.

Non-Solvent

NON-SOLV'ENT, adjective Not able to pay debts; insolvent.

Non-Sparing

NON-SPARING, adjective Sparing none; alldestroying; merciless.

Non-Usance

NON-USANCE, noun Neglect of use.

Non-User

NON-USER, noun

1. A not using; failure to use; neglect of official duty; default of performing the duties and services required of an officer.

An office may be forfeited by misuser or nonuser.

2. Neglect or omission of use.

A franchise may be lost by misuser or non-user

Nonage

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

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

Nonagon

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

Nonce

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

None

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

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

NONESUCH, noun

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

2. A plant of the genus Lychnis.

Nonillion

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

Nonpareil

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.

Nonplus

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.

Nonsense

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.

Nonsensical

NONSENS'ICAL, adjective Unmeaning; absurd; foolish.

Nonsensically

NONSENS'ICALLY, adverb Absurdly; without meaning.

Nonsensicalness

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

Nonsensitive

NONSENS'ITIVE, adjective Wanting sense or perception.

Nonsuch

NONSUCH. [See Nonesuch.]

Nonsuit

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

Nonsuited

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

Nonsuiting

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

Noodle

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

Nook

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

Noon

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.

Noonday

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

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

Nooning

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

Noonstead

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

Noontide

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

NOON'TIDE, adjective Pertaining to noon; meridional.

Noose

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.

Nopal

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

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

Nor

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.

Normal

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.

Norman

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.

Norroy

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

North

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.

Northeast

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.

Northerly

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.

Northern

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.

Northernly

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

Northing

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.

Northward

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

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.

Northwestern

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.

Norwegian

NORWE'GIAN, adjective Belonging to Norway.

NORWE'GIAN, noun A native of Norway.

Nose

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.]

Nose-Fish

NO'SE-FISH, noun A fish of the lether-mouthed kind, with a flat blunt snout; called also broad-snout.

Nose-Smart

NO'SE-SMART, noun A plant, nasturtium; cresses.

Nosebleed

NO'SEBLEED, noun

1. A hemorrhage or bleeding at the nose.

2. A plant of the genus Achillea.

Nosed

NO'SED, adjective

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

2. Having sagacity.

Nosegay

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

As on the nosegay in her breast reclined.

Noseless

NO'SELESS, adjective Destitute of a nose.

Nosethril

NOSETHRIL. [See Nostril.]

Nosle

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

Nosological

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

Nosologist

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

Nosology

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.

Nosopoetic

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

Nostril

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.

Nostrum

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

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.

Notable

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.

Notableness

NOT'ABLENESS, noun

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

2. Remarkableness.

Notably

NOT'ABLY, adverb

1. Memorably; remarkably; eminently.

2. With show of consequence or importance.

Notarial

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.

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.

Notation

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

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

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.]

Note-Book

NO'TE-BOOK, noun

1. A book in which memorandums are written.

2. A book in which notes of hand are registered.

Noted

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.

Notedly

NO'TEDLY, adverb With observation or notice.

Notedness

NO'TEDNESS, noun Conspicuousness; eminence; celebrity.

Noteless

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

Noter

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

Noteworthy

NO'TEWORTHY, adjective Worthy of observation or notice.

Nothing

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

Nothingness

NOTH'INGNESS, noun

1. Nihility; non-existence.

2. Nothing; a thing of no value.

Notice

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.

Noticeable

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

Noticed

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

Noticing

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

Notification

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.

Notified

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.

Notify

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.]

Notifying

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

Notion

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.

Notional

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.

Notionality

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

Notionally

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

Two faculties notionally or really distinct.

Notionist

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

Notoriety

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

Notorious

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

Notoriously

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

Notoriousness

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

Nott

NOTT, adjective Shorn.

Notus

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

Notwheat

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

Notwithstanding

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

NOUGHT. See Naught.

Noul

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

Nould

NOULD, ne would, would not.

Noun

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.]