Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NON-MEMBER-SHIP, n.

State of not being a member.

NON-ME-TAL'LIC, a.

Not consisting of metal. Coxe's Orfila.

NON-NATU-RALS, n. plus. [L. non-naturalia.]

In medicine, this quaint phrase is employed to designate deficiencies, excesses, and irregularities: 1) in sleeping and watching; 2) in exercise and rest; 3) in the affections and passions; 4) in the secretions and excretions; 5) in eating, drinking, and abstinence; 6) in exposure to vicissitudes or alternations of temperature. These are all that were reckoned by the ancients; but, to the same class of agencies belong undoubtedly, 7) exposure to vicissitudes or alternations of drouth and moisture; and 8) exposure to the effluvia or exhalations from known and palpable dead and decomposing matter, or, in other words, fermenting and putrefying vegetable and animal substances, as for example, cabbages, onions, &c. or carcasses and offals of markets and slaughter-houses, fish used as a manure, &c., the ordinary excretions from living animals in a state of vitiation from accumulation, confinement, increased temperature, and decomposition; as for example, the halitus from the lungs, the perspired fluid, the urine, and the intestinal discharges; also from more simple chimical actions, which extricate copiously, and in very nearly, if not quite a pure state, carbonic acid gas, nitrous acid gas, sulphohydrous acid gas, chlorine gas, &c. All of these operate in the same manner, and stand in the same relation, as respects the causation of disease.

NON-O-BE'DI-ENCE, n.

Neglect of obedience. Milner.

NON-OB-SERV'ANCE, n.

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill. Non obstante. [L.] Notwithstanding; in opposition to what has been stated or is to be stated or admitted. A clause in statutes and letters patent, importing a license from the king to do a thing which at common law might be lawfully done, but being restrained by Act of Parliament, can not be done without such license. Encyc.

NON-PA-REIL, a. nonparel'.

Having no equal; peerless. Whitlock.

NON-PA-REIL, n. nonparel'. [Fr. non, not or no, and pareil, equal.]

1. Excellence unequaled. Shak.
2. A sort of apple.
3. A sort of printing type very small, and the smallest now used except three.

NON-PAY-MENT, n.

Neglect of Payment. S. E. Dwight.

NONPLUS, n. [L. non, not, and plus, more, further.]

Puzzle; insuperable difficulty; a state in which one is unable to proceed or decide. Locke. South.

NON'PLUS, v.t.

To puzzle; to confound; to put to a stand; to stop by embarrassment. Dryden. Your situation has nonplussed me. Th. Scott.

NON-PON-DER-OS'I-TY, n.

Destitution of weight; levity. Black.

NON-PONDER-OUS, a.

Having no weight.

NON-PRO-DUCTION, n.

A failure to produce or exhibit.

NON-PRO-FES'SION-AL, a.

Not belonging to profession; not done by or proceeding from professional men. Miner.

NON-PRO-FICIEN-CY, n.

Failure to make progress.

NON-PRO-FICIENT, n.

One who has failed to improve or make progress in any study or pursuit. Bp Hall. Non Pros., contraction of nolle prosequi, the plaintif will not prosecute. It is used also as a verb.

NON-RE-GARD-ANCE, n.

Want of due regard. Dict.

NON-REN-DITION, n.

Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due. The non-payment of a debt, or the non-rendition of a service which is due, is an injury for which the subsequent reparation of the loss sustained—is an atonement. S. E. Dwight.

NON-RE-SEMBLANCE, n.

s as z. Unlikeness; dissimilarity.

NON-RESI-DENCE, n.

a as z. Failure or neglect of residing at the place where one is stationed, or where official duties require one to reside, or on one's own lands. Swift.

NON-RESI-DENT, a.

Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a non-resident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

NON-RES'I-DENT, n.

One who does not reside on one's own lands, or in the place where official duties require. In the United States, lands in one state or township belonging to a person residing in another state or township, ure called the lands of non-residents.

NON-RE-SIST'ANCE, n.

a as z. The omission of resist and passive obedience; submission to authority, power or usurpation without opposition.

NON-RE-SIST'ANT, a.

Making no resistance to power or oppression. Arbuthnot.

NON-SANE, a. [L, non, not, and sanus, sound.]

Unsound; not perfect; as, a person. of nonsane memory. Blackstone.