Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NO'VEN-A-RY, n. [L. novenarius, from neeces, nine.]

The number nine; nme collectively.

NO-VEN'NI-AL, a. [L. novem, nine, and minus, year.]

Done every ninth year. Potter.

NO-VER'CAL, a. [L. noverca, a step-mother.]

Pertaining to a step-mother; suitable to a step-mother; in the manner of a step-mother. Derham.

NOVICE, n. [Fr. from L. novitius, from novus, new.]

1. One who is new in any business; one unacquainted or unskilled; one in the rudiments; a beginner. I am young, a novice in the trade. Dryden.
2. One that has entered a religious house, but has not taken the vow; a probationer. Shak.
3. One newly planted in the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. I Tim. iii.

NO-VI-LU'NAR, a. [L. noulluaium.]

Pertaining to the new moon.

NO-VITIATE, n. [Fr. noviciat; It. noriziato. See Novice.]

1. The state or time of learning rudiments.
2. In religious houses, a year or other time of probation for the trial of a novice, to determine whether he has the necessary qualities for living up to the rule to which his vow is to bind him.

NO-VITIOUS, a. [L. nonitins.]

Newly invented. [Not used.] Pearson.

NOV'I-TY, n. [L. novitess.]

Newness. [Not used.] Brown.

NOW, adv. [Sax. nu, D. Sw. Dan. and Goth. nu. The G. has nun, Gr. {foreign}, nuns.]

1. At the present time. I have a patient now living at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.
2. A little while ago; very lately. They that but now for honor and for plate, Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. Waller.
3. At one time; at another time. Now high, now low, now master tap, now miss. Pope.
4. Now sometimes expresses or implies a connection between the subsequent and preceding proposition; often it introduces an inference or an explanation of what precedes. Not this man, but Barabbas; now Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. Then said Micah, now I know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest. Judges xvii. The other great mischief which befalls men, is by their being misrepresented. Now by calling evil good, a wan Is mix represented to others in the way of slander. South.
5. After this; things being so. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor? L'Estrange.
6. In supplication, it appears to bs somewhat emphatical. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart. 2 Kings xx.
7. Now sometimes refers to a particular time past specified or understood, and may he defined, at that tune. He was now sensible of his mistake. Now and then, at one time and another, indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. They now and then appear in offices of religion. Rogers. If there were any such thing as spontaneous generation, a new species would now and then appear. Anon.
8. Applied to places which appear at intervals or in succession. A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood. Drayton. Now, now, repeated, is used to excite attention to something immediately to happen.

NOW, n.

The present time or moment. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does ever last. Cowley. Now a days, adv. In this age. What men of spirit now a days, Come to give sober judgment of new plays? Garrick. [This is a common colloquial phrase, but not elegant in writing, unless of the more familiar kinds.] .

NO'WAY, or NOWAYS, adv. [no and way.]

In no manner or degree. [These can hardly be considered as compound words.]

NOW'ED, a.

Fr. none.] Knotted; tied in a knot; used in heraldry. Encyc.

NOW'EL, n. [Fr. nod.]

A shout of joy or Christmas song. [Obs.] Chaucer.

NOWES, n. [Fr. nom]

The marriage knot. [Obs.] Crushaw.

NOWHERE, [comp. of no and where; Sax. na-where.]

Nut in any place or state. Happiness is nowhere to be found but in the practice of virtue. But it is better to write no and where as separate words.

NOWISE, [comp. of no and wise; often by mistake written noways.]

Not in any manner or degree. Bentley.

NOX-IOUS, a. nok'shus. [L. noxius, from noceo, to hurt.]

1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food. climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples; noxious haunts of vice.
2. Guilty; criminal. Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. [Little used.] Bramhall.
3. Unfavorable; injurious. Too frequent appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotion. Swift.

NOX'IOUS-LY, adv.

Hurtfully; perniciously.

NOXIOUS-NESS, n.

1. Hurtfulness; the quality that injures, impairs or destroys; insalubrity; as, the noxiousness of foul air.
2. The quality that corrupts or perverts; as, the noxiousness of doctrines. Noy, Noyance, Noyer, Noyful, Noyous, Noysance. [See Annoy and Nuisance.]

NO-YAU, n. no'yo. [Fr. the nut of a fruit, as of a peach or cherry.]

1. A cordial flavored with' the kernel of the nut of the bitter almond.
2. A rich cordial.

NUB'BIN, n.

A small or imperfect ear of maiz.

NUBBLE, v.t. [for knubble, from knob, the fist.]

To heat or bruise with the fist. [Not used.] Ainsworth.

NU-BIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. nubifer; nubes, a cloud or fog, and fero, to produce.]

Bringing or producing clouds.

NUBILE, a. [Fr. from L. nuhilis, from nubo, to marry.]

Marriageable; of an age suitable for marriage. Prior.

NU-BIL'I-TY,

It. The state of being marriageable. Alex. Walker.