Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NOISOME'-LY, adv.

With a fetid stench; with un infectious steam.

NOI-SOME-NESS, n.

Offensiveness to the smell; quality that disgusts. South.

NOIS-Y, a. noi'zy. [from noise.]

1. Making a loud sound.
2. Clamorous; turbulent; as, the noisy crowd.
3. Full of noise. O leave the noisy town. Dryden. Nolens volens. [L.] Unwilling or willing; whether he will or not.

NO'LI-ME-TANGE-RE, n. [L. touch me not.]

1. A plant of the genus Impataens, called also balsavaine; also, a plant of the genus Momordica, or Ecbalium, one species of which is culled the wild or spurting cucumber.. Encyc.
2. Among physicians, an ulcer or cancer, a species of herpes. Coxe.

NO-LITION, n. [L. nolo, that is, ne volo, I will not.]

Unwillingness; opposed to volilion. [Little used.] Hale.

NOLL, n. [Sax. hnol, cnoll, knoll.]

The head; the noddle. [Not used.]

NOMAD, n. [Gr. {foreign}, {foreign}, living on pasturage, from {foreign}, to distribute or divide, to feed. This verb is connected with {foreign}, L. nemus, a wood, a place overgrown with trees, and also a pasture, the primary sense of which is probably to spring or shoot, for the verb {foreign} signifies among other things, to leap, to dance, and may be allied to Eng. nimble. Cattle originally subsisted by browsing, as they still do in new settlements.]

One who leads a wandering life, and subsists by tending herds of cattle which graze on herbage of spontaneous growth. Such is the practice at this day in the central and northern parts of Asia, and the Numidians in Africa are supposed to have been so called front this practice. Tooke. Encyc.

NO-MAD'IC, a. [Gr. {foreign}.]

Pastoral; subsisting by the tending of cattle, and wandering for the sake of pasturage; as, the nomadic tribes of Asia.

NOMAD-IZE, v.i.

To wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage; to subsist by the grazing of herds on herbage of natural growth. The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the rivers Irtish, Oby, Kama and Volga. Tooke.

NOMAD-IZ-ING, ppr.

Leading a pastoral life and wandering or removing from place to place for the sake of finding pasture.

NOMAN-CY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, L. nomen, name, and garrua, divination.]

The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names. Dict.

NOM'BLES, n. [Fr.]

The entrails of a deer. Johnson.

NOMBRIL, n. [Fr. the navel.]

The center of an escutcheon. Cyc.

NOME, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

1. A province or tract of country; an Egyptian government or division. Maurice.
2. In the ancient Greek music, any melody determined by inviolable rules. Cyc.
3. [L. nomen.] In algebra, a quantity with a sign prefixed or added to it, by which it is connected with another quantity, upon which the whole becomes a binomial, trinomial, and the like. Cyc.
4. [Gr. {foreign}, to eat.], In surgery, a phagedenic ulcer, or species of herpes.

NO'MEN-CLA-TOR, n. [L.; Fr. nomenclateur; L. nomen, name, and calo, Gr. {foreign} to call.]

1. A person who calls things or persons by their names. In Rome, candidates for office were attended each by a nomenclator, who informed the candidate of the names of the persons they met, and whose votes they wished to solicit. Cyc.
2. In modern usage, a person who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the names of things in any art or science.

NO'MEN-CLA-TRESS, n.

A female nomenclator. Addison.

NO-MEN-CLATUR-AL, a.

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature. Barton.

NO'MEN-CLA-TURE, n. [L. nomenclatura. See Nomenclator.]

1. A list or catalogue of the more usual and important words in a language, with their significations; a vocabulary or dictionary.
2. The names of things in any art or science, or the whole vocabulary of names or technical terms which are appropriated to any particular branch of science; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chimistry; the new nomenclature of Lavoisier anti his associates.

NO'MI-AL, n. [from L. nomen, a name.]

A single name or term in mathematic.

NOM'IN-AL, a. [L. nominalis, from nomen. See Name.]

1. Titular; existing in name only; as, a nominal distinction or difference is a difference in name and not in reality.
2. Pertaining to a name or names; consisting in names.

NOM'IN-AL, or NOM'IN-AL-IST, n.

1. The Nominalists were a sect of school philosophers, the disciples of Ocham or Occam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words and not things are the object of dialectics. They were the founders of the university of Leipsic. Encyc.
2. To convert into a noun. [Not in use and ill formed.]

NOM'IN-AL-ISM, n.

The principles of the Nominalists.

NOM'IN-ALLY, adv.

By name or in name only.

NOM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. nomino, from nomen, name. See Name.]

1. To name; to mention by name. Wotton.
2. To call; to entitle; to denominate. Spenser.
3. To name or designate by name for an office or place; to appoint; as, to nominate an heir or an executor. Locke.
4. Usually, to name for an election, choice or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of a person as a candidate for an office or place. This is the principal use of the word in the United States; as in a public assembly, where men are to be selected and chosen to office, any member of the assembly or meeting nominates, that is, proposes to the chairman the name of a person whom he desires to have elected.

NOM'IN-A-TED, pp.

Named; mentioned by name; designated or proposed for an office or for election.