Prizes for the encouragement of men and women who work for the interests of humanity, established by the will of Alfred B. Nobel (1833-1896), the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate for this purpose. They are awarded yearly for what is regarded as the most important work during the year in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, idealistic literature, and service in the interest of peace. The prizes, averaging $40,000 each, were first awarded in 1901. The monetary value of the awards have increased each year, to near one million U. S. dollars by the end of the 20th century.

A history of noble families.

To make noble; to nobiliate.

To make noble; to ennoble; to exalt.

The act of making noble.

The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

To make noble; to ennoble.

Having a noble mind; of high moral or intellectual character; honorable; magnanimous.

elevated ideals or conduct.

One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness.

Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.

A female of noble rank; a peeress.

The body of nobles; the nobility.

Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.

No person; no one; not anybody.

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

A criminal.

Hurtfully; injuriously.

Hurtful; injurious.

To notch; to fit to the string, as an arrow; to string, as a bow.

Somnambulism; sleepwalking; walking in one's sleep.

Somnambulism.

A somnambulist; a sleepwalker.

A noctambulist; a sleepwalker.

Comprising a night and a day; as, a noctidial day.

Bringing night.

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

That which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for phosphorus.

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

Of or pertaining to Noctiluca.

Shining in the night.

Going about in the night; night-wandering.

A roving or going about in the night.

Noctivagant.

A kind of writing frame for the blind.

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

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. Of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family Noctuidae.

A large European bat (Vespertilio altivolans syn. Noctulina altivolans).

An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea.

By night; nightly.

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.

Harm; injury; detriment.

Hurtful; noxious.

A dropping or bending forward of the upper part or top of anything.

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

Knotted.

Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted.

One who nods; a drowsy person.

Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.

The head; also, noodle; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.

A simpleton; a fool.

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

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

Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria. A foraminifer of the genus Nodosaria or of an allied genus.

Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

Nodose; knotty; knotted.

Of or pertaining to a nodule or knot.

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps.

Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

Same as Nowel.

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

Of or pertaining to the understanding.

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.