The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.
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The act or process of informing by words.
Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.
A notional or groundless opinion.
In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.
Notional.
One whose opinions are ungrounded notions.
An annotator.
A division of nudibranchiate mollusks having gills upon the back. The Dorsibranchiata.
Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata.
An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.
Any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.
One of the genera of newts, included in the family Salamandridae.
The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. See Parapodium.
Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.
The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
Generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice.
A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
The pouched, or marsupial, frog of South America.
The negative of self.
To shear.
Having the hair cut close.
Same as Nott-headed.
Same as Nocturne.
The back.
The south wind.
Wheat not bearded.
Nevertheless; however; although; as, I shall go, notwithstanding it rains.
An ouch; a jewel.
A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
See Naught.
The top of the head; the head or noll.
Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal.
The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.
A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
Of or pertaining to a noun.
To change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun; to nominalize.
A nurse.
A nurse.
One who, or that which, nourishes.
Promoting growth; nutritious.
Nutritively; cherishingly.
Nurture.
To nurse; to rear; to bring up.
Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.
To insnare; to entrap.
A person newly rich. Contrasted with old money.
A star which suddenly increases in brightness thousands of times, then fades back to near its original intensity. It may appear as a /new/ star if its original brightness was too low for routine observation. A star which suddenly increases in brightness to many millions of times its original intensity is a supernova, and the postulated mechanisms for the increases of brightness of novae and supernovae are different.
A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.
One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
The doctrines or principles of the Novatians.
Innovation.
An innovator.
That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
A short novel; a novella.
Innovation.
An innovator; an asserter of novelty.
To innovate.
Novelty; new things.
The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.
The number of nine units; nine, collectively.
Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.
Done or recurring every ninth year.
Of or pertaining to a stepmother; suitable to, or in the manner of, a stepmother.
Like a novice; becoming a novice.
The state of being a novice; novitiate.
Of or pertaining to the new moon.
Newly invented; recent; new.
Newness; novelty.
A city in the Asian part of Russia. Much Soviet military research was performed there, and until the 1990's it was restricted from entry by foreigners.
A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.
The present time or moment; the present.
In these days; at the present time.
See Nouch.
The European gray gurnard (Trigla gurnardus).
Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.
The core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object. The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.
The marriage knot.
Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.
Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere.
Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.
Neat cattle.
Just now; at present.
That which annoys.
A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
Annoyance.
A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.
An annoyer.
Full of annoyance.
See Noils.
Annoying; disagreeable.
Nozzle.
The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.
The chemical symbol for Neptunium, a transuranic element having atomic number 93.
Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series; as, to the nth degree.
The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet (/).
A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.
A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.
A small or imperfect ear of maize.
To beat or bruise with the fist.
A nebula. Specifically, the Magellanic clouds.
A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.
Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa. A native of Nubia.
Bringing, or producing, clouds.
Born of, or produced from, clouds.
To cloud.
Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
The state of being marriageable.
Cloudy.
A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.
Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits.
See Nucleus, 3 (a).
The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.
Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.
Bearing, or producing, nuts.
Shaped like a nut; nut-shaped.
See Juglone.
of, pertaining to, or using nuclear weapons; a nuclear exchange, i.e. a reciprocal bombardment by nuclear weapons..
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