Nonresistant (n.) One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.
Nonresisting (a.) Not making resistance.
Nonruminant (a.) Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal.
Nonsane (a.) Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory.
Nonsense (n.) That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.
Nonsense (n.) Trifles; things of no importance.
Nonsensical (a.) Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous.
Nonsensitive (a.) Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.
Non sequitur () An inference which does not follow from the premises.
Nonsexual (a.) Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
Nonslaveholding (a.) Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State.
Nonsolution (n.) Failure of solution or explanation.
Nonsolvency (n.) Inability to pay debts; insolvency.
Nonsolvent (a.) Not solvent; insolvent.
Nonsolvent (n.) An insolvent.
Nonsonant (a.) Not sonant.
Nonsonant (n.) A nonsonant or nonvocal consonant.
Nonsparing (a.) Sparing none.
Nonstriated (a.) Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.
Nonsubmission (n.) Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
Nonsubmissive (a.) Not submissive.
Nonsuch (n.) See Nonesuch.
Nonsuit (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case.
Nonsuited (imp. & p. p.) of Nonsuit
Nonsuiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nonsuit
Nonsuit (v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up.
Nonsuit (a.) Nonsuited.
Nonsurety (n.) Insecurity.
Nontenure (n.) A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.
Nonterm (n.) A vacation between two terms of a court.
Nontoxic (a.) Not toxic.
Nontronite (n.) A greenish yellow or green mineral, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron.
Nonuniformist (n.) One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.
Nonunionist (n.) One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
Nonusance (n.) Neglect of using; failure to use.
Nonuser () A not using; failure to use.
Nonuser () Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right.
Nonvascular (a.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
Nonvernacular (a.) Not vernacular.
Nonvocal (a.) Not vocal; destitute of tone.
Nonvocal (n.) A nonvocal consonant.
Nonyl (n.) The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.
Nonylene (n.) Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons C9H18 of the ethylene series.
Nonylenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, related to, or designating, nonylene or its compounds; as, nonylenic acid.
Nonylic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.
Noodle (n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
Noodle (n.) A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.
Nook (n.) A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.
Nook-shotten (a.) Full of nooks, angles, or corners.
Noological (a.) Of or pertaining to noology.
Noologist (n.) One versed in noology.
Noology (n.) The science of intellectual phenomena.
Noon (a.) No. See the Note under No.
Noon (n.) The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
Noon (n.) Hence, the highest point; culmination.
Noon (a.) Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.
Noon (v. i.) To take rest and refreshment at noon.
Noonday (n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.
Noonday (a.) Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat.
Noon-flower (n.) The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.
Nooning (n.) A rest at noon; a repast at noon.
Noonshun (n.) See Nunchion.
Noonstead (n.) The position of the sun at noon.
Noontide (n.) The time of noon; midday.
Noose (n.) A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
Noosed (imp. & p. p.) of Noose
Noosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Noose
Noose (v. t.) To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.
Noot () See lst Not.
Nopal (n.) A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.
Nopalries (pl. ) of Nopalry
Nopalry (n.) A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.
Nope (n.) A bullfinch.
Nor (conj.) A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.
Norbertine (n.) See Premonstrant.
Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.
Norian (a.) Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks.
Norice (n.) Nurse.
Norie (n.) The cormorant.
Norimons (pl. ) of Norimon
Norimon (n.) A Japanese covered litter, carried by men.
Norite (n.) A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.
Norium (n.) A supposed metal alleged to have been discovered in zircon.
Norm (a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
Norm (a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.
Norma (n.) A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard.
Norma (n.) A mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.
Norma (n.) A templet or gauge.
Normal (a.) According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
Normal (a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
Normal (a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.
Normal (a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.
Normal (a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.
Normal (a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.
Normal (a.) Any perpendicular.
Normal (a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.
Normalcy (n.) The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy.
Normalization (n.) Reduction to a standard or normal state.
Normally (adv.) In a normal manner.
Norman (n.) A wooden bar, or iron pin.