Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 20

Nog (n.) A kind of strong ale.

Nog (n.) A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.

Nog (n.) One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.

Nog (n.) A treenail to fasten the shores.

Nog (v. t.) To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.

Nog (v. t.) To fasten, as shores, with treenails.

Noggen (a.) Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh.

Noggin (n.) A small mug or cup.

Noggin (n.) A measure equivalent to a gill.

Nogging (v. t.) Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

Noght (adv.) Not.

Noiance (n.) Annoyance.

Noie (v. t.) To annoy. See Noy.

Noier (n.) An annoyer.

Noils (n. pl.) Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

Noint (v. t.) To anoint.

Noious (a.) Annoying; troublesome.

Noise (n.) Sound of any kind.

Noise (n.) Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.

Noise (n.) Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report.

Noise (n.) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.

Noise (v. i.) To sound; to make a noise.

Noised (imp. & p. p.) of Noise

Noising (p pr. & vb. n.) of Noise

Noise (v. t.) To spread by rumor or report.

Noise (v. t.) To disturb with noise.

Noiseful (a.) Loud; clamorous.

Noiseless (a.) Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time.

Noisette (n.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.

Noisily (adv.) In a noisy manner.

Noisiness (n.) The state or quality of being noisy.

Noisome (a.) Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.

Noisome (a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.

Noisy (superl.) Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

Noisy (superl.) Full of noise.

Nolde () Would not.

Nole (n.) The head.

Noli-me-tangere (n.) Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens.

Noli-me-tangere (n.) The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

Noli-me-tangere (n.) A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

Nolition (n.) Adverse action of will; unwillingness; -- opposed to volition.

Noll (n.) The head; the noddle.

Nolleity (n.) The state of being unwilling; nolition.

Nolle prosequi () Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants.

Nolo contendere () A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.

Nol. pros. () An abbrev. of Nolle prosequi.

-prossed (imp. & p. p.) of Nol-pros

-prossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nol-pros

Nol-pros (v. t.) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

Nolt (n. sing. & pl.) Neat cattle.

Nom (n.) Name.

Noma (n.) See Canker, n., 1.

Nomad (n.) One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

Nomad (a.) Roving; nomadic.

Nomade (n.) See Nomad, n.

Nomadian (n.) A nomad.

Nomadic (a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.

Nomadism (n.) The state of being a nomad.

Nomadized (imp. & p. p.) of Nomadize

Nomadizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nomadize

Nomadize (v. i.) To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.

Nomancy (n.) The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

No-man's land () A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.

No-man's land () Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.

Nomarch (n.) The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

Nomarchies (pl. ) of Nomarchy

Nomarchy (n.) A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

Nombles (n. pl.) The entrails of a deer; the umbles.

Nombril (n.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

Nome (n.) A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

Nome (n.) Any melody determined by inviolable rules.

Nome (n.) See Term.

Nome () Alt. of Nomen

Nomen () p. p. of Nim.

Nomenclator (n.) One who calls persons or things by their names.

Nomenclator (n.) One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names.

Nomenclatress (n.) A female nomenclator.

Nomenclatural (a.) Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

Nomenclature (n.) A name.

Nomenclature (n.) A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.

Nomenclature (n.) The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

Nomial (n.) A name or term.

Nomic (a.) Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.

Nomic (n.) Nomic spelling.

Nominal (a.) Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.

Nominal (a.) Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.

Nominal (n.) A nominalist.

Nominal (n.) A verb formed from a noun.

Nominal (n.) A name; an appellation.

Nominalism (n.) The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

Nominalist (n.) 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.

Nominalistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

Nominalize (v. t.) To convert into a noun.

Nominally (adv.) In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality.

Nominated (imp. & p. p.) of Nominate

Nominating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nominate

Nominate (v. t.) To mention by name; to name.

Nominate (v. t.) To call; to entitle; to denominate.

Nominate (v. t.) To set down in express terms; to state.

Nominate (v. t.) To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.

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