Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 19

Nobody (n.) No person; no one; not anybody.

Nobody (n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.

Nocake (n.) Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.

Nocent (a.) Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities.

Nocent (a.) Guilty; -- the opposite of innocent.

Nocent (n.) A criminal.

Nocently (adv.) Hurtfully; injuriosly.

Nocive (a.) Hurtful; injurious.

Nock (n.) A notch.

Nock (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.

Nock (v. t.) To notch; to fit to the string, as an arrow; to string, as a bow.

Noctambulation (n.) Somnambulism; walking in sleep.

Noctambulism (n.) Somnambulism.

Noctambulist (n.) A somnambulist.

Noctambulo (n.) A noctambulist.

Noctidial (a.) Comprising a night and a day; a noctidial day.

Noctiferous (a.) Bringing night.

Noctilionid (n.) A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, having cheek pouches and large incisor teeth.

NoctilucAe (pl. ) of Noctiluca

Noctiluca (n.) That which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for phosphorus.

Noctiluca (n.) A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucae.

Noctilucin (n.) A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.

Noctilucine (a.) Of or pertaining to Noctiluca.

Noctilucous (a.) Shining in the night.

Noctivagant (a.) Going about in the night; night-wandering.

Noctivagation (n.) A roving or going about in the night.

Noctivagous (a.) Noctivagant.

Noctograph (n.) A kind of writing frame for the blind.

Noctograph (n.) An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.

Noctuary (n.) A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; -- distinguished from diary.

Noctuid (n.) Any one of numerous moths of the family Noctuidae, or Noctuaelitae, as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths; -- so called because they fly at night.

Noctuid (a.) Of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family Noctuidae.

Noctule (n.) A large European bat (Vespertilio, / Noctulina, altivolans).

Nocturn (n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

Nocturn (n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.

Nocturnal (a.) Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to diurnal.

Nocturnal (a.) Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.

Nocturnal (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea.

Nocturnally (adv.) By night; nightly.

Nocturne (n.) A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

Nocument (n.) Harm; injury; detriment.

Nocuous (a.) Hurtful; noxious.

Nod (v. i.) To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

Nod (v. i.) To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod at one.

Nod (v. i.) To be drowsy or dull; to be careless.

Nodded (imp. & p. p.) of Nod

Nodding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nod

Nod (v. t.) To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head.

Nod (v. t.) To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.

Nod (v. t.) To cause to bend.

Nod (n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.

Nod (n.) A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command.

Nodal (a.) Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point.

Nodated (a.) Knotted.

Nodation (n.) Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted.

Nodder (n.) One who nods; a drowsy person.

Nodding (a.) Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.

Noddle (n.) The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.

Noddle (n.) The back part of the head or neck.

Noddies (pl. ) of Noddy

Noddy (n.) A simpleton; a fool.

Noddy (n.) Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.

Noddy (n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.

Noddy (n.) An old game at cards.

Noddy (n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.

Noddy (n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

Node (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.

Node (n.) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.

Node (n.) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.

Node (n.) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.

Node (n.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.

Node (n.) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.

Node (n.) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.

Node (n.) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.

Node (n.) A swelling.

Nodical (a.) Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon.

Nodosarine (a.) Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria.

Nodosarine (n.) A foraminifer of the genus Nodosaria or of an allied genus.

Nodose (a.) Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

Nodose (a.) Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects.

Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

Nodosity (n.) A knot; a node.

Nodosous (a.) Alt. of Nodous

Nodous (a.) Nodose; knotty; knotted.

Nodular (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

Nodule (n.) A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Noduled (a.) Having little knots or lumps.

Nodulose (a.) Alt. of Nodulous

Nodulous (a.) Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

Noel (n.) Same as Nowel.

Noematachograph (n.) An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind.

Noematic (a.) Alt. of Noematical

Noematical (a.) Of or pertaining to the understanding.

Noemics (n.) The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

Noetian (n.) One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Noetic (a.) Alt. of Noetical

Noetical (a.) Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual.

Nof () Not of; nor of.

Nog (n.) A noggin.

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