Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: nine – noise
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nine, adj. [OE nigon.]
One more than eight; one less than ten; three times three; as a numeral, 9.
no, adj. [OE; see none, pron.]
- Not any.
- Zero; not a; not one.
- Phrase. “No end”: endlessly; ceaselessly.
no, adv. [see no, adj.]
Nay; not; [negating the verb in a stated or implied question clause.]
Noah, proper n. [Heb. 'rest, repose, quiet, home'.]
Old Testament patriarch; Biblical leader who warned wicked people of the great flood; man who built an ark to save his family and landed on Mount Ararat after the flood subsided; [fig.] a prophet; one who foretells the future accurately; (see Genesis 5-10; see ED's letters).
noble, adj. [Fr. < L. (g)nō-, to know.]
- Noteworthy; celebrated; commemorative.
- Great; dignified; distinguished; remarkable.
nobleness, n. [see noble, n.]
Greatness; nobility; grandeur; dignity; self-respect; honor.
nobody, pron. [see no, adj. + body, n.]
- No one.
- None other; not anybody else; not any others.
- A cipher; a nonentity; a commoner; no one important; an unknown person; an ordinary person; not anyone famous; [fig.] a stranger; an alien; (see Charles Mackay's 1858 “Little Nobody” poem).
- Not one person.
nod (-s), n. [see nod, v.]
Head gesture; slight movement of the head downward and back up; [fig.] affirmation; polite acknowledgment of another person.
nod (-s, nodding), v. [Probably MHG notten, to move about, shake'.]
- Gesture; incline the head; make a quick slight motion; [fig.] signal an affirmation.
- Sway; decline; move back and forth.
- Bob; float like a cork; move up and down.
noise, n. [Fr.]
- Bustle; din; audible activity.
- Signal; alarm; [fig.] daylight; radiant energy; [metaphor] morning song; sounds of nature at dawn.
- Clamor; commotion; [fig.] acclamation; applause.
- Hum; buzz of life; sound of living things.
- Crash; sound effect; audible manifestation.
- Talk; speech; chatter; [fig.] clatter; racket; ruckus.
- Thunder; boom; roar; rushing sound of the winds.
- Melody; music; strain; tune; song; sound of creatures in nature.