Emily Dickinson Lexicon — NODE

Dictionary: NODE – NOIS-ING

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NODE, n. [L. nodes, Eng. knot; allied probably to knit, Sax. cnyttan.]

Properly, a knot; a knob; hence,
In surgery, a swelling of the periosteum, tendons or bones.
In astronomy, the point where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic. These points are two, and that where a planet ascends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node, or dragon's head; that where a planet descends to the south, is called the descending node, or dragon's tail. Encyc.
In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty. 5, In dialing, a point or hole in the gnomon of a dial, by the shadow or light of which, either the hour of the day in dials without furniture, or the parallels of the sun's declination and his place in the ecliptic, &c. in dials with furniture, are shown.
In botany, the part of a plant where the leaves are expanded and the buds formed. Lindley. Nodes or Nodal points, in music, the fixed points of a sonorous chord, at which it divides itself, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic sounds; as the strings of the Eolian harp.

NO-DOSE, a. [L, nodosus, from nodes, knot.]

Knotted; having knots or swelling joints. Martyn.

Knottiness. Brown.

Pertaining to or in the form of a nodule or knot.

NOD'ULE, n. [L. nodulus.]

A little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps. Darwin.

NO-ET'IC, a. [Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, the mind.]

Intellectual; performed by the understanding.

NOG, n. [abbess, of Noggen.]

A little pot; also, ale. Skinner. Swift.

Hard; rough; harsh. [Not used.] King Charles.

A small mug or wooden cup.

A partition of scantlings lilled with bricks. Mason.

NOIANCE, n. [See Arica.]

Annoyance; trouble; mischief; inconvenience. [Not used.] Shak.

for Annoy, or NOIER, for Annoyer, or NOIOUS, troublesome, are not in use. Tusser.

NOISE, n. noiz. [Fr. noise, strife, squabble, dispute; Arm. noes. Class Ns, Ar. U, Syr. 24, and L. nara, mule. Class Ng, No. 23.]

Sound of any kind, or proceeding from any cause, as the sound made by the organs of speech, by the wings of an insect, the rushing of the wind, or the roaring of the sea, of cannon or thunder, a low sound, a high sound, &c.; a word of general signification.
Outcry; clamor; loud, importunate or continued talk expressive of boasting, complaint or quarreling. In quarreling, it expresses less than uproar. What noise have we about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood Baker.
Frequent talk; much public conversation. Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages, and never caught the least infection. Spectator.

NOISE, v. noiz.

To sound loud. Mann those terrors did me none, though noising loud. Milton.