Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NOURISH, v.i. nur'ish.

1. To promote growth. Grains and roots nourish more than leaves. [Ellipticat.] Bacon.
2. To gain nourishment. [Unusual.] Bacon.

NOURISH, v.t.

1. nur'ish, [Fr. nourrir; It. nutrire; Sp. and Port. nutrir; from L. mitrio. The G. niihren, Sw. nara, Dan. nesrer, to nourish, can not be the same word unless they have lost a dental, which may perhaps be the fact.]
2. To feed and cause to grow; to supply a living or organized body, animal or vegetable, with matter which increases its bulk or supplies the waste occasioned by any of its functions; to supply with nutriment.
3. To support; to maintain by feeding. Gen. xlvii. Whilst I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, I will stir up in England some black storm. Shak.
4. To supply the means of support and increase; to encourage; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. What madness was it, with such proofs, to nourish their contentions! Hooker.
5. To cherish; to comfort. James v.
6. To educate; to instruct; to promote growth in attainments. 1 Tim. iv.

NOUR-ISH-A-BLE, a. nur'ishahle.

Susceptible of nourishment; no, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew.

NOURISH-ED, pp. nur'ished.

Fed; supplied with nutriment; caused to grow.

NOUR-ISH-ER, n. nur'isher.

The person or thing that nourishes. Bacon. Milton.

NOURISHING, ppr. nur'ishing.

1. Feeding; supplying with aliment; supporting with food.
2. adj. Promoting growth; nutritious; as, a nourishing diet.

NOURISH-ING-LY, adv.

Nutritively; cherishingly.

NOURISHMENT, n. nur'ishment.

1. That which serves to promote the growth of animals or plants, or to repair the waste of animal bodies; food; sustenance; nutriment. Newton.
2. Nutrition; support of animal or vegetable bodies. Blackmore.
3. Instruction, or that which promotes growth in attainments; as, nourishment and growth in grace. So they may learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.

NOURI-TURE,

See NURTURE.

NOURS'LING,

See NURSLING.

NOVA-BLE-NESS, n.

1. Activity; industriousness; care. [Little wed.]
2. Remarkableness.

NO-VACU-LITE, n. [L. norucu/a, a razor.]

Razor-stone; Turkey-hone; coticular shirt; whet-slate, a variety of argillaccous slate. Brongniart. Ure.

NO-VAITIAN-ISM, n.

The opinions of the Novatians. One Hypolltus, a Roman presbyter, had been seduced into Novatiunism. Milner.

NO-VA'TIAN, n.

In church history, one of the sect of Novatus or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.

NO-VA'TION,

See INNOVATION.

NO-VA'TOR,

See INNOVATOR.

NOV'EL, a. [L. novellus, from novus,new; It. novella; Sp. novel.]

1. New; of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; hence, unusual; as, a novel heresy; novel opinions. The proceedings of the court were novel.
2. In the civil law, the novel constitutions are those which are supplemental to the code, and posterior in time to the other books. These contained new decrees of successive emperors.
3. In the common law, the assize of novel disseizin is an action in which the demandant recites a complaint of the disseizin in terms of direct averment, whereupon the sherif is commanded to reseize the land and chattels thereon, and keep the same in custody till the arrival of the justices of assize. Blackstone.

NOV'EL, n.

1. A new or supplemental constitution or decree. [See the adjective.]
2. A fictitious tale or narrative in prose, intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love. The coxcomb's novel and the drunkard's toast. Prior.

NOV'EL-ISM, as.

Innovation. [Little used.] Dering.

NOV'EL-IST, n.

1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty. Bacon. White.
2. A writer of a novel or of novels. Warton.
3. A writer of news. [Not used.] Tatler.

NOV'EL-IZE, v.i.

To innovate. [Not in use.]

NOV'EL-STUD-I-ED, a.

Studied an novels. Tucker.

NOV'EL-TY, n.

Newness; recentness of origin or introduction. Hooker. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South.

NO-VEM'BER, n. [L. from novem, nine; the ninth month, according to the ancient Roman year, beginning in March.]

The eleventh month of the year.

NO'VEN-A-RY, a.

Pertaining to the number nine.