Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NOM'IN-A-TED, pp.

Named; mentioned by name; designated or proposed for an office or for election.

NOMIN-ATE-LY, adv.

By name; particularly. Spelman.

NOMIN-A-TING, ppr.

Naming; proposing for an office or for choice by name.

NOM-IN-A'TION, n.

1. The act of naming or nominating; the act of proposing by name for an office.
2. The power of nominating or appointing to office. The nomination of persons to places being a prerogative of the king. Clarendon.
3. The state of being nominated. A. B. is in nomination for governor.

NOM'IN-A-TIVE, a.

Pertaining to the name which precedes a verb, or to the first case of nouns; as, the nominative case or nominative word.

NOM'IN-A-TIVE, n.

In grammar, the first case of names or nouns and of adjectives which are declinable.

NOMINA-TIVE-LY, adv.

In the manner of the nominative.

NOMIN-A-TOR, n.

One that nominates.

NOM-IN-EE', n.

1. In law, the person who is named to receive a copy-hold estate on surrender of it to the lord; the cestuy que use, sometimes called the surrenderee. Blackstone.
2. A person named or designated by another. Paley.
3. A person on whose life depends an annuity.

NO-MOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, law, and {foreign}, to write.]

A treatise on laws.

NO-MO-THET'IC, or NO-MO-THETIC-AL, a. [Gr. {foreign}.]

Legislative; enacting laws. Bp. Barlow.

NON, adv. [L.]

Not. This word is used in the English language as a prefix only, for giving a negative sense to words; as in non-residence, non-performance, non-existence, non-payment, non-concurrence, non-admission, non-appearance, non-attendance, non-conformity, non-compliance, non-communion, and the like.

NON-A-BILITY, n.

want of ability; in law, an exception taken against a plaintif in a cause, when he is unuble legally to' ommence a suit.

NON-ACCED-ING, a.

Not acceding.

NON-AC-QUAINT-ANCE, n.

Want of acquaintance. Barrow.

NONAGE, it. [non, not, and age.]

Minority; the time of life before a person, according to the laws of his country, becomes of age to manage his own concerns legal maturity of age is different in different countries. In this country, as in Great Britain, a inan's nonage continues till he has completed twenty-one years. Nonage is sometimes the period under 14 years of age, as in case of marriage. Bailey. Encyc.

NO-NA-GES'I-MAL, a. [L. nonagesimus, ninetieth.]

Noting the 90th degree of the ecliptic; being in the highest point of the ecliptic.

NON'A-GON, n. . [L. norms, nine, and Gr. {foreign}, an angle.]

A figure having nine sides and nine angles. Bailey.

NON-AP-PEAR-ANCE, n.

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

NON-AP-POINT'MENT, n.

Neglect of appointment. Franklin.

NON-AT-TEND'ANCE, n.

A failure to attend; omission of attendance.

NON-AT-TEN'TION, n.

Inattention. Swift.

NON-BI-TIMIN-OUS, a.

Containing no bitumen. Journ. of Science.

NONCE, n.

Purpose; intent; design. [Plot in use.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

NON-CHA-LANCE, n. [Fr.]

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.