Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NOONDAY, a.

Pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday, heat.

NOON'DAY, n.

Rd-day; twelve o'clock in the day. Boyle.

NOON'ING, a.

Repose at noon; sometimes, repast at noon. Addison.

NOON'STEAD, a.

The station of the sun at noon. Drayton.

NOONTIDE, a.

Pertaining to noon; meridional. Milton.

NOONTIDE, a.

See Tide, which signifies time.] The time of noon; mid-day. Shak.

NOOSE, a. nooz. [Ir. nas, a band or tie; nasgaim, to bind or tie.]

A running knot, which binds the closer the more it is drawn. where the hangman does dispose. To special friend the knot of noose. Hudibras.

NOOSE, v.t. nooz.

To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

NOOSED, pp.

Caught in a noose.

NOPAL, a.

A plant of the genus Cactus, from which the cochineal is collected in Mexico; Indian fig or raquette. The fruit resembles a fig. Encyc.

NOPE, n.

A provincial name for the bullfinch or red-tail. Eng. Dict.

NOR, connective. [ne and or.]

1. A word that denies or render negative the second or subsequent part of a proposition, or a proposition following another negative proposition; correlative to neither or not. I neither lore nor fear thee. Shak. Fight neither with small nor great. Kings aid. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard. 1 Car. ii.
2. Nor sometimes begins a sentence, but in this case a negative proposition has preceded it in the foregoing sentence.
3. In some cases, usually in poetry, neither is omitted, and the negative which it would express is included in nor. Simois nor Xarthus shall be wanting there. Dryden. That is, neither Simois nor Nanthns.
4. Sometimes in poetry, nor is used for neither, in the first part of the proposition. I whom nor avarice nor pleasures move. Walsh.

NORMAL, a. [L. normalis, from norma, a square, a rule.]

1. According to square or rule; perpendicular; forming right angle.
2. According to a rule or principle.
3. Relating to rudiments or elements; teaching rudiment or first principles; as, normal schools in France.

NORMAN, a.

Pertaining to Normandy; as, the Norma: language.

NOR'MAN, n. [worth-man or nord-man.]

A Norwegian, a native of Normandy.

NORM-AN, n.

In seamen's language, a short wooden bar to be thrust into a hale of the windlass, on which to fasten the cable. Mar. Dict.

NORNS, n.

In Scandinavian mythology, the three Fates, past, present, and future, whose decrees were irrevocable.

NORROY, n. [north and roy, north king.]

The title of tb third of the three kings at arms or provincial heralds. Burke.

NORSE, n.

A name for the language of Norway.

NORTH, a.

Being in the north; as, the north polar star.

NORTH, a. [Sax. north; G. Sw. and Dan. nord; It. norte; Fr. nord; Arm. id; Sp. nord, the north wind and norte, north, the arctic pole, and a rule or guide. I know not the origin of this word, nor its primary sense may have been applied first to the pole star, or to the wind like Boreas.]

One of the cardinal points, being that point of the horizon which is directly opposite to the sun in the meridian, on the left hand when we stand with the face to the east; or it is that point of intersection of the horizon and meridian which is nearest our pole. Cyc.

NORTH-EAST, a.

Pertaining to the northeast, or proceeding from that point; as, a northeast wind.

NORTH-EAST, n.

The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from. each.

NORTH'ER-LY, a.

Being toward the north, or nearer toward the north than to any other cardinal point. [We use this word and northern with considerable latitude.]

NORTHER-LY, adv.

1. Toward the north; as, to sail northerly.
2. In a northern direction; as, a course northerly.
3. Proceeding from a northern point.