Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NON-E-LECT, n. [L. non, not, and electus, elected.]

One who is not elected or chosen to salvation. Huntington.

NON-E-LEC'TION, n.

Failure of election. Jefferson.

NON-E-LEC'TRIC, a.

Conducting the electric fluid.

NON-E-LECTRIC, n.

A substance that is not an electric, or which transmits the fluid; as metals.

NON-EM-PHATIC, or NON-EM-PHAT'IC-AL, a.

Having no emphasis; unemphatic. Beattie.

NON-EN'TI-TY, n.

1. Non-existence; the negation of being. Bentley.
2. A thing not existing. There was no such thing as rendering evil for evil, when evil was a non-entity. South.

NON-E-PIS'CO-PAL, a.

Not episcopal; not of the episcopal church or denomination. J. M. Mason.

NON-E-PIS-CO-PA'LI-AN, n.

One who does not helong to the episcopal church or denomination. J. M. Mason.

NONES, n. plur. [L. nona; perhaps Goth. niun, Eng. nine.]

1. In the Roman calendar, the fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July and October. The noses were nine days from the ides.
2. Prayers, formerly so called. Todd.

NON-ES-SENTIAL, n.

Non-essentials are things not essential to a particular purpose. J. M. Mason. Non est inventus. [L.] He is not found.

NONE-SUCH, n. [none and such.]

1. An extraordinary thing; a thing that has not its equal.
2. A plant of the genus Lychnis. Lee.

NON-EX-COM-MUNI-CA-BLE, a.

Not liable to excommunication.

NON-EX-E-CUTION, n.

Neglect of execution; non-performance.

NON-EX-IST'ENCE, n.

1. Absence of existence; the negation of being.
2. A thing that has no existence or being. Brown.

NON-EX-IST'ENT, a.

Not having existence. B. Godwin.

NON-EX-PORT-ATION, n.

A failure of exportation; a not exporting goods or commodities.

NON-EX-TEN'SILE, a.

That can not be stretched.

NO-NILLION, n. [L. nonus, nine, and million.]

The number produced by involving a million to the ninth power.

NON-IM-PORT-A'TION, n.

Want or failure of importation; a not importing goods.

NON-IM-PORT-ING, a.

Not bringing from foreign countries.

NON-JU'RING, a. [L. non, not, and juro, to swear.]

Not swearing allegiance; an epithet applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to the Hanoverian family and government.

NON-JU'ROR, n.

In Great Britain, one who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the government and crown of England at the Revolution, when James II abdicated the throne, and the Hanoverian family was introduced. The non jurors were the adherents of James.

NON-MA-LIGNANT, a.

Not malignant, as a disease. Miner.

NON-MAN-U-FACTUR-ING, a.

Not carrying on manufactures; as non-manufacturing states. Hamilton.

NON'MEM-BER, n.

Not a member.