Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NU-MIS-MA-TOL'O-GIST, n.

One versed in the knowledge of coins and medals.

NU-MIS-MA-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, coin, and {foreign}, discourse.]

The branch of historical science which treats of coins and medals.

NUM'MU-LAR, a. [L. nummus, a coin.]

Pertaining to coin or money. Dict.

NUMMU-LITE, n. [L. nummus, money, from its resemblance to coin.]

Fossil remains of a chambered shell of a flattened form, formerly mistaken for money. Ed. Encyc.

NUMPS, n.

A dolt; a blockhead.[Not used.] Parker.

NUMSKULL, n. [numb and skull.]

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. Prior.

NUM'SKULL-ED, a.

Dull in intellect; stupid; doltish. Arbuthnot.

NUN, n.

1. A web-footed fowl of the size of a duck, with a white head and neck. Dict.
2. The bine titmouse. Sherwood.

NUN, n. [Sax. nunne; Dan. riunne; D. non; G. nonne; Sw. nunna; Fr. conne.]

A woman devoted to a religious life, and who lives in a cloister or nunnery, secluded from the world, under a vow of perpetual chastity.

NUN'CHION, n.

A portion of food taken between meals. [qu. from noon. or a corruption of luncheon.] Ainsworth.

NUN'CIA-TURE, n. [See Nuncio.]

The office of a nuncia. Clarendon. tN

NUN'CIO, n. [It. nunzio, from L. nuncius, messenger.]

1. An embassador from the pope to some Catholic prince or state, or who attends some congress or assembly as the pope's representative. Encyc.
2. A messenger; one who brings intelligence. Shak.

NUN-CU-PAMON, n.

A naming. Chaucer.

NUN'CU-PATE, v.t. [L. nuncupo.]

To declare publicly or solemnly. [Not used.] Barrow.

NUN-CU'PA-TO-RY,

1. 5 Iii; from L. nuncupo, to declare.]
2. Nominal; existing only in name. Encyc.
3. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. Fotherby.
4. Verbal, not written. A nunr-upcitive will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterward reduced to writing. Blackstone.

NUN-CUTA-TIVE, a.

[[It. nuncupativo; Fr. nuncupa.

NUN'DI-NAL, a. [L. nundinalis, from nundince, a fair or market, quasi novem-dince, every nine days.]

1. Pertaining to a fair or to a market day.
2. A nundinal letter, among the Romans, was one of the eight first letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market days, which returned every nine days.

NUN-DI-NATION, n.

Traffick in fairs. [Not used.]

NUN'DI-SATE, i.

To buy and sell at fairs. [Not used.]

NUN'IM-NAL, n.

A nundinal letter.

NUN-NATION, n.

In Arabic grammar, from the name of N, the pronunciation of n at the end of words.

NUN'NE-RY, n.

A house in which nuns reside; a cloister in which females under a vow of chastity and devoted to religion, reside during life.

NUNNISH-NESS, n.

The habits or manners of nuns. Fox.

NUPTIAL, a. [L. nuptialis, front nuptus, nubo, to marry.]

1. Pertaining to marriage; done at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies; nuptial torch.
2. Constituting marriage; as, the nuptial knot or band. The Bible has mitigated the horrors of war; it has given effectual obligation to the nuptial vow. G. Spring.

NUP'TIALS, n. plur.

Marriage,---which see. Dryden.