Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: NO'BLE-NESS – NOC-TURN'AL
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NO'BLE-NESS, n.
- Greatness; dignity; ingenuousness; magnanimity elevation of mind or of condition, particularly of the mind. His purposes are full of honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Taylor. Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat / Build in her loveliest. Milton. The nobleness of life is to do this. Shak.
- Distinction by birth; honor derived from a noble ancestry.
NO'BLER, a.
More noble.
NO-BLESS', n. [Fr. noblesse, from Sp. nobleza.]
- The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively; including males and females. Dryden.
- Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [In these senses, not now used.] Spenser. B. Jonson.
NO'BLEST, a.
Most noble.
NO'BLE-WO-MAN, n.
A female of noble rank. Cavendish.
NO'BLY, adv.
- Of noble extraction; descended from a family of rank; as, nobly born or descended. Dryden.
- With greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done. He nobly preferred death to disgrace.
- Splendidly; magnificently. He was nobly entertained. Where could an emperor's ashes have been so nobly lodged as in the midst of his metropolis and on the top of so exalted a monument? Addison.
NO'BOD-Y, n. [no and body.]
No person; no one. Swift.
NO'CENT, a. [L. nocens, from noceo, to hurt, from striking. See Annoy.]
Hurtful; mischievous; injurious; doing hurt; as, nocent qualities. Watts.
NO'CENT-LY, or NOC'U-OUS-LY, adv.
Hurtfully; injuriously.
NO'CIVE, a. [L. nocivus.]
Hurtful; injurious. Hooker.
NOCK, n.
A notch. [Obs.] [See Notch.]
NOCK, v.t.
To place in the notch. [Obs.] Chapman.
NOC-TAM-BU-LA'TION, n. [L. nox, night, and ambulo, to walk.]
A rising from bed and walking in sleep. Beddoes.
NOC-TAM'BU-LIST, n.
One who rises from bed and walks in his sleep. Arbuthnot uses noctambulo in the same sense; but it is a less analogical word.
NOC-TID'I-AL, a. [L. nox, night, and dies, day.]
Comprising a night and a day. [Little used.] Holder.
NOC-TIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. nox, night, and fero, to bring.]
Bringing night. [Not used.] Dict.
NOC-TIL'U-CA, n. [L. nox, night, and luceo, to shine.]
A species of phosphorus which shines in darkness without the previous aid of solar rays. Encyc.
NOC-TIL'U-COUS, a.
Shining in the night. Pennant.
NOC-TIV'A-GANT, a. [L. nox, night, and vagor, to wander.]
Wandering in the night.
A roving in the night. Gayton.
NOC'TU-A-RY, n. [from L. nox, night.]
An account of what passes in the night. Addison.
NOC'TULE, n. [from L. nox, night.]
A large species of bat.
NOC'TURN, n. [L. nocturnus, by night.]
An office of devotion, or religious service by night. Stillingfleet.
NOC-TURN'AL, a. [L. nocturnus, from nox, night.]
- Pertaining to night; as, nocturnal darkness.
- Done or happening at night; as, a nocturnal expedition or assault; a nocturnal visit.
- Nightly; done or being every night. From gilded roofs depending lamps display / Nocturnal beams, that emulate the day. Dryden.
NOC-TURN'AL, n.
An instrument, chiefly used at sea to take the altitude of stars about the pole, in order to ascertain the latitude. This may be a hemisphere, or a planisphere on the plane of the equinoctial. Encyc.