Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NU-MER-OSI-TY, n.

The state of being numerous. [Nat used.] Brown.

NU'MER-OUS, a. [L. nunterants.]

1. Being many, or consisting of a great number of individuals; as, a numerous army; a numerous body; a numerous people.
2. Consisting of poetic numbers; melodious; musical. In prose, a style becomes numerous by the alternate disposition or intermixture of long and short syllables, or of long and short words; or by a judicious selection and disposition of smooth flowing words, and by closing the periods with important or well sounding words. Encyc.

NUMER-OUS-LY, adv.

In or with great numbers; as, a meeting numerously attended.

NU'MER-OUS-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being numerous or many; the quality of consisting of a great number of individuals; as, the numerousness of an army or of an assembly.
2. The quality of consisting of poetic numbers; melodiousness; musicalness, Encyc.

NU-MIS-MAT'IC, a. [L. numisma, money, coin; Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, to suppose, to sanction, from {foreign}, law or custom.]

Pertaining to money, coin or medals.

NU-MIS-MA-T'ICS, n.

The science of coins and medals.

NU-MIS-MA-TOL'O-GIST, n.

One versed in the knowledge of coins and medals.

NU-MIS-MA-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, coin, and {foreign}, discourse.]

The branch of historical science which treats of coins and medals.

NUM'MU-LAR, a. [L. nummus, a coin.]

Pertaining to coin or money. Dict.

NUMMU-LITE, n. [L. nummus, money, from its resemblance to coin.]

Fossil remains of a chambered shell of a flattened form, formerly mistaken for money. Ed. Encyc.

NUMPS, n.

A dolt; a blockhead.[Not used.] Parker.

NUMSKULL, n. [numb and skull.]

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. Prior.

NUM'SKULL-ED, a.

Dull in intellect; stupid; doltish. Arbuthnot.

NUN, n.

1. A web-footed fowl of the size of a duck, with a white head and neck. Dict.
2. The bine titmouse. Sherwood.

NUN, n. [Sax. nunne; Dan. riunne; D. non; G. nonne; Sw. nunna; Fr. conne.]

A woman devoted to a religious life, and who lives in a cloister or nunnery, secluded from the world, under a vow of perpetual chastity.

NUN'CHION, n.

A portion of food taken between meals. [qu. from noon. or a corruption of luncheon.] Ainsworth.

NUN'CIA-TURE, n. [See Nuncio.]

The office of a nuncia. Clarendon. tN

NUN'CIO, n. [It. nunzio, from L. nuncius, messenger.]

1. An embassador from the pope to some Catholic prince or state, or who attends some congress or assembly as the pope's representative. Encyc.
2. A messenger; one who brings intelligence. Shak.

NUN-CU-PAMON, n.

A naming. Chaucer.

NUN'CU-PATE, v.t. [L. nuncupo.]

To declare publicly or solemnly. [Not used.] Barrow.

NUN-CU'PA-TO-RY,

1. 5 Iii; from L. nuncupo, to declare.]
2. Nominal; existing only in name. Encyc.
3. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. Fotherby.
4. Verbal, not written. A nunr-upcitive will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterward reduced to writing. Blackstone.

NUN-CUTA-TIVE, a.

[[It. nuncupativo; Fr. nuncupa.

NUN'DI-NAL, a. [L. nundinalis, from nundince, a fair or market, quasi novem-dince, every nine days.]

1. Pertaining to a fair or to a market day.
2. A nundinal letter, among the Romans, was one of the eight first letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market days, which returned every nine days.

NUN-DI-NATION, n.

Traffick in fairs. [Not used.]

NUN'DI-SATE, i.

To buy and sell at fairs. [Not used.]