Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NU'BIL-OUS, a. [L. nubilus, from nubes.]

Cloudy. Bailey.

NU-CIFER-OUS, a. [L. nux, nut, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing or producing nuts. Dict.

NU'CLE-US, n.

1. R. from ma, a nut.]
2. Properly, the kernel of at nut; but in usage, any body about which matter is collected. Woodward.
3. The body of a comet, called also its head, which appears to be surrounded with light.

NUDA-TED, a. [L. nodatus.]

Knotted. A nodated hyperbola is one that by turning round crosses itself.

NU-DA'TION, n. [L. nudutio, from rudo, to make bare.]

The act of stripping or making bare or naked.

NUDE, a. [L. nudus.]

1. Bare.
2. In law, void; of no force. Blackstone.

NU-DI-BRANCHTI-ATE, a.

Relating to an order of molluscous animals, having no shell whatever.

NU'DI-TY, n. [L. maims.]

1. Nakedness.
2. Nudities, in the plural, naked parts which decency requires to be concealed. Dryden.
3. In painting and sculpture, the naked parts of the human figure, or parts not covered with drapery. Nudum pactum. [L.] In law, an agreement that is void or not valid according to the laws of the land. Blackstone.

NU-GAC'I-TY, n. [L. nugax, from Tauga, trifles.]

Futility; trifling talk or behavior. More. Johnson.

NUGALL, n.

An excrescence of the oak. Brown.

NU-GATION, n. [L. nugor, to trifle.]

The act or practice of trifling. [Little used.] Bacon.

NUGA-TO-RY, a. [L. nugatorius.]

1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. Bentley.
2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. The laws are sometimes rendered nugatory by inexecution. Any agreement may be rendered nugatory by something which contravenes its execution.

NU-HATCH, n.

The common name of birds of the genus Sitta. The common European nut-hatch is called also nut jobber and nut pecker. Encyc. Johnson.

NUI-SANCE, or NUISANCE, n. [Fr. nuisance, from nuire, L. noceo, to annoy. Blackstone writes nusance, and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]

1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. A liar is a nuisance to society.
2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage. Nuisances are public or private; public, when they annoy citizens in general, as obstructions of the highway; private, when they affect individuals only, as when one man erects a house so near his neighbor's as to throw the water off the roof upon his neighbor's land or house, or to intercept the light that his neighbor before enjoyed. Blackstone.

NUL,

in law, signifies no, not any; as, nul disseizin; nil tiel record; nul tort.

NULL, a. [L. nullus.]

Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid. The contract of a minor is null in law, except for necessaries.

NULL, n.

Something that has no force or meaning. A cipher is called a null. [Not used.] Bacon.

NULL, v.t. [L. nullus; ne and Wius, not any.]

To annul; to deprive of validity; to destroy. [Not muck used.] [See Annul.] Milton.

NUL-LI-FI-CA'TION, a.

The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect or of no legal effect.

NUL-LI-FIDI-AN, a. [L. nullus, none, and fides, faith.]

Of no faith; of no religion or honesty. [Not used.] Feltham.

NUL'LI-FI-ER, n.

One who makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.

NUL'LI-FLED, pp.

Annulled; made void. .

NUL'LI-FY, v.t. [L. nullus, none, and facio, to make.]

To annul; to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Ames.

NUL'LI-FY-ING, ppr.

Annulling; making void.

NUL'LI-TY, n. [It. nullita; Fr. nulliU; from L. nullus.]

1. Nothingness; want of existence. Bacon.
2. Want of legal force, validity or efficacy. South.