Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NI-LOT'IC, a.

Pertaining to the river Nile in Egypt.

NIM, v.t. [Sax. neman, niman, Goth. niman, D. neemen, G. nehmen, to take.]

To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.] Hudibras. L'Estrange.

NIM'BLE, a. [Qu. W. nwyv, liveliness. In Dan. nem is sharp, acute.]

Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. It is applied chiefly to motions of the feet and hands, sometimes to other things; as, a nimble boy the nimble-footed deer. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope.

NIM'BLE-FOOT-ED, a.

Running with speed; light of foot.

NIM'BLE-NESS, n.

Lightness and agility in motion; quickness; celerity; speed; swiftness; implies lightness and springiness. The stag thought It better to trust to the nimbleness of his feet. Sidney. Ovid ranged over Parnassus with great nimbleness and agility. Addison.

NIM'BLESS, n.

Nimbleness. [Obs.] Sidney.

NIM'BLE-WIT-TED, a.

Quick; ready to speak. Bacon.

NIM'BLY, adv.

With agility; with light, quick motion. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber. Shak.

NIM'BUS, n. [L.]

On ancient medals and monuments, circle or disk of rays or light. Elmes.

NIM'I-E-TY, n. [L. nimietas.]

The state of being too much. [Not use.]

NIM'MER, n. [Sax. niman, to take.]

A thief. [Not in use.] Hudibras.

NIN'COM-POOP, n. [said to be a corruption of L. non compos, not of sound mind.]

A fool; a blockhead; a trifling dotard. [A low word.] Addison.

NINE, a. [Goth. niun; G. neun; Sw. nijo; Dan. ni; L. nonus; probably contracted, as the Saxon is nigan, and the Dutch nigen, Hindoo now, Burman no or nonaw.]

Denoting the number composed of eight und one; as, nine men; nine days.

NINE, n.

The number composed of eight and one; or the number less by a unit than ten; three times three.

NINE'-FOLD, a.

Nine times repeated. Milton.

NINE'-HOLES, n.

A game in which holes are made in the ground, into which a pellet is to be bowled. Drayton.

NINE'-PENCE, n.

A silver coin of the value of nine pence.

NINE'-PINS, n.

A play originally with nine pins or pieces of wood set on end, at which a bowl is rolled for throwing them down. We say, to play at nine-pins, or a game at nine-pins. In the United States, ten pins are sometimes used for this game.

NINE'-SCORE, a.

Noting nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty. [See Score.]

NINE'-SCORE, n.

The number of nine times twenty.

NINE'TEEN, a. [Sax. nigantyne.]

Noting the number of nine and ten united; as, nineteen years.

NINE'TEENTH, a. [Sax. nigantothe.]

The ordinal of nineteen; designating nineteen.

NINE'TI-ETH, a.

The ordinal of ninety.

NINE'TY, a.

Nine times ten; as, ninety years.

NIN'NY, n. [Sp. niño; L. nanus, a dwarf; Ar. نأنأ nana, weak in mind.]

A fool; a simpleton. Swift.