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.

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.

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.

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.

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

not causal.

not causative. Opposite of causative.

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

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

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

Indifferent; careless; cool.

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

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

Want of cohesion.

Lack of coincidence.

Not coincident.

not able to be folded into a compact form. Opposite of collapsible.

not having columns.

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

Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.

not combinative. Opposite of combinative.

not able to combine.

Not combustible; not able to burn; as, drapery should be made of noncombustible materials. Opposite of combustible.

not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises. Opposite of commercial.

Not having a commission.

Not expressing a preference; as, although favoring European unity he was noncommittal about the form it should take.

A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Neglect or failure of communion.

Lack of completion; failure to complete.

Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

Neglecting or refusing to comply.

See Noncontent.

Not concluding.

To dissent or refuse to concur.

Refusal to concur.

Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.