The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

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

Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual.

To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.

Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh.

A small mug or cup.

Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

Not.

Annoyance.

To annoy. See Noy.

An annoyer.

A short or waste piece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing; also, a similar piece or shred of waste silk.

Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

To anoint.

Annoying; troublesome.

To spread by rumor or report.

Loud; clamorous.

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

Any device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration.

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.

In a noisy manner.

The state or quality of being noisy.

Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.

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

To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

The head.

Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens. The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

Adverse action of will; unwillingness; -- opposed to volition.

The head; the noodle.

The state of being unwilling; nolition.

Neat cattle.

Name.

See Canker, n., 1.

Roving; nomadic.

See Nomad, n.

A nomad.

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

The state of being a nomad.

To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.

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

The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

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

The entrails of a deer; the umbles.

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

See Term.

p. p. of Nim.

One who calls persons or things by their names.

A female nomenclator.

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

A name.

A name or term.

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

A nominalist.

The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

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.

Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

To convert into a noun; as, a nominalized sentence; a nominalized adjective or verb.

In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality.

By name; particularly; namely.

Of or pertaining to the nominative case.

In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.

One who nominates.

A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office. One remains a nominee until one has been elected or has assumed the office.

A nominator.

Government in accordance with a system of law.

A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.

Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.

A lawgiver.

Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power.

No; not. See No, a.

A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.

same as hand-operated.

A person who is not a Roman Catholic.

Fairness in treating people without prejudice; -- used mostly in reference to discrimination based on race, religion, and nationality.

Fair and unbiased; not discriminating; not biased against a particular group or type of person.

The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.

Withdrawal from the activities of a group.

Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.

An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.

Infinitive, uninflected; -- of verbs. Opposite of finite.

withdrawing from the activities of a group.

the state of something that has outlived its relevance.

A person who is not Jewish.

not based upon or representing political parties; as, a nonparty regime.

not commercially motivated; not profit-making; nonprofit; not for profit.

To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed.

varying from or not adhering to a standard; as, nonstandard windows; envelopes of nonstandard sizes; non-standard lengths of board cost more per foot. Opposite of standard.

permitting easy removal of adherent food particles; -- of surfaces, especially of cooking utensils; as, a frying pan with a nonstick surface.

Not characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use.

Involving little or no use of language; as, gestures are a form of nonverbal communication.

The Fate who spins the thread of life; counterpart of Greek Clotho.

Want of ability.

not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids). Opposite of absorbent.

A neglect or refusal to accept.

Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic; positive; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.

Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.

Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.

Failure to be admitted.

lacking capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface. Opposite of adsorbent.

Not adult; immature.

Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaerobic.

Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.

Having the quality of nonage; being a minor; immature.

A person ninety years old.

The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it is intersected by the horizon.

A plane figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.

Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.

Default of appearance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.

Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.

not arboreal; not living in trees; -- of animals. Opposite of arboreal.

Failure to arrive.

not associative. Opposite of associative.

noncontractive. Opposite of astringent.

A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

Inattention.

supporting no vertical weight other than its own; -- of a structural member; as, a non-bearing wall.

A country which is not involved in a war.

Containing no bitumen; not bituminous.