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Noise

To spread by rumor or report.

Noiseless

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

noisemaker

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

Noisette

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.

Noisiness

The state or quality of being noisy.

Noisome

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

Noisy

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

Nol-pros

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

Noli-me-tangere

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.

Nolition

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

Noll

The head; the noodle.

Nolleity

The state of being unwilling; nolition.

Noma

See Canker, n., 1.

Nomadic

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

Nomadize

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

Nomancy

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

Nomarch

The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

Nomarchy

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

Nombles

The entrails of a deer; the umbles.

Nombril

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

Nomenclator

One who calls persons or things by their names.

Nomic

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

Nominalism

The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

Nominalist

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.

Nominalize

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

Nominally

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

Nominative

Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. The nominative case.

Nominee

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.

Nomocracy

Government in accordance with a system of law.

Nomography

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

Nomopelmous

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

Non

No; not. See No, a.

Non-

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

non-discriminatory

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

Non-ego

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

Non-Episcopal

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

Non-feasance

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

non-finite

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

non-issue

the state of something that has outlived its relevance.

non-party nonparty

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

non-profit-making

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

Non-pros

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.

non-standard nonstandard

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.

non-stick nonstick

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

non-U

Not characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use.

non-verbal nonverbal

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

Nona

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

Nonacid

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

Nonaerobiotic

Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaerobic.

Nonage

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

Nonaged

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

Nonagesimal

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.

Nonagon

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

Nonagrian

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

Nonalienation

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

Nonane

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.

Nonappearance

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

Nonappointment

Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.

nonarboreal

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

Nonattendance

A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

nonbearing

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

noncarbonated

not having supersaturated carbon dioxide in solution; not carbonated; -- of beverages.

Nonce

The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce, i. e. for the present time.

noncellular

Not made up of or divided into cells. Opposite of cellular.

Nonchalantly

In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

Nonclaim

A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

noncom

A noncommissioned officer; a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.

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