Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NOC-TIDI-AL, a. [L. nor, night, and dies, day.]

Comprising a night and a day. [Little used.] Holder.

NOC-TIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. nos, night, and fero, to bring.]

Bringing night. [Not used.] Dict.

NOC-TIL'U-CA,, [L. nor, night, and lucre, to shine.]

A species of phosphorus which shines in darkness without the previous aid of solar rays. Encyc.

NOC-TIL'U-COUS, a.

Shining in the night. Pennant.

NOC-TIV'A-GANT, a. [L. nos, night, and vagor, to wander.]

Wandering in the night.

NOC-TIV-A-GA'TION, n.

A roving in the night. Gayton.

NOC'TU-A-RY, n. [from L. nor, night.]

An account of what passes in the night. Addison.

NOC'TULE, n. [from L. nos, night]

A large species of bat.

NOC'TURN, n. [L. nocturnus, by night.]

An office of devotion, or religious service by night. Stillingfleet.

NOC-TURN'AL, a. [L. nocturnus, from nos, night.]

1. Pertaining to night; as, nocturnal darkness.
2. Done or happening at night; as, a nocturnal expedition or assault; a nocturnal visit.
3. Nightly; done or being every night. From gilded roofs depending lamps display. Nocturnal beams, that emulate the day. Dryden.

NOC-TURN'AL, n.

An instrument, chiefly used at sea to take the altitude of stars about the pole, in order to ascertain the latitude. This may be a hemisphere, or a planisphere on the plane of the equinoctial. Encyc.

NOC-TURN'AL-LY, adv.

By night; nightly.

NOC'U-MENT, n. [L. nocumentum, from noceo, to hurt.]

Harm. [Not used.]

NOC'U-OUS, a.

Hurtful. Bailey.

NOD, n.

1. A quick declination of the head. A took or a nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss. Locks.
2. A quick declination or inclination. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.
3. A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep. Locke.
4. A slight obeisance. Shak.
5. A command; as, in L. numen, for nutamen.

NOD, v.i. [L. num; Gr. {foreign}, contracted; W. amnaid, a nod; amnetdiaw, to nod, to beckon, from wad, a leap, a spring; neidiaw, to leap, to throb or beat, as the pulso; Ar. {foreign} nada, to nod, to shake; Heb. Ch. and Syr. in, to move, to shake, to wander. It coincides in elements with L. nato, to swim. Class Nd, No. 3, 9, 10.]

1. To incline the head with a quick motion, either forward or sidewise, as persons nod in sleep.
2. To bend or incline with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes. The nodding verdure of its brow. Thomson.
3. To be drowsy. Your predecessors, contrary to other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding. Addison.
4. To make a slight bow; also, to beckon with a nod.

NOD, v.t.

To incline or bend; to shake. Shak.

NO-DA'TION, n. [L. nodatio, from node, to tie.]

The act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [Little used.]

NOD'DEN, a.

Bent; inclined. [Not in use.] Thomson.

NOD'DER, n.

One who nods; a drowsy person. Pope.

NODDING, a.

In botany, a substitute for the term nutant; having the top bent downward.

NOD'DING, ppr.

Inclining the head with a short quick motion.

NODDLE, n. [qu. L. nodulus, a lump; or from nod.]

The head; in contempt. Come, master, I have a project In my noddle. L'Estrange.

NOD'DY, n. [qu. Gr. {foreign}.]

1. A simpleton; a fool.
2. A fowl of the genus Sterna, very simple and easily. taken.
3. A game at cards. B. Jonson.

NODE, n. [L. nodes, Eng. knot; allied probably to knit, Sax. cnyttan.]

1. Properly, a knot; a knob; hence,
2. In surgery, a swelling of the periosteum, tendons or bones.
3. In astronomy, the point where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic. These points are two, and that where a planet ascends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node, or dragon's head; that where a planet descends to the south, is called the descending node, or dragon's tail. Encyc.
4. In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty. 5, In dialing, a point or hole in the gnomon of a dial, by the shadow or light of which, either the hour of the day in dials without furniture, or the parallels of the sun's declination and his place in the ecliptic, &c. in dials with furniture, are shown.
5. In botany, the part of a plant where the leaves are expanded and the buds formed. Lindley. Nodes or Nodal points, in music, the fixed points of a sonorous chord, at which it divides itself, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic sounds; as the strings of the Eolian harp.