Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NO'BLE-NESS, n.

1. Greatness; dignity; ingenuousness; magnanimity elevation of mind or of condition, particularly of the mind. His purposes are full of honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Taylor. Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat / Build in her loveliest. Milton. The nobleness of life is to do this. Shak.
2. Distinction by birth; honor derived from a noble ancestry.

NO'BLER, a.

More noble.

NO-BLESS', n. [Fr. noblesse, from Sp. nobleza.]

1. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively; including males and females. Dryden.
2. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [In these senses, not now used.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

NO'BLEST, a.

Most noble.

NO'BLE-WO-MAN, n.

A female of noble rank. Cavendish.

NO'BLY, adv.

1. Of noble extraction; descended from a family of rank; as, nobly born or descended. Dryden.
2. With greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done. He nobly preferred death to disgrace.
3. Splendidly; magnificently. He was nobly entertained. Where could an emperor's ashes have been so nobly lodged as in the midst of his metropolis and on the top of so exalted a monument? Addison.

NO'BOD-Y, n. [no and body.]

No person; no one. Swift.

NO'CENT, a. [L. nocens, from noceo, to hurt, from striking. See Annoy.]

Hurtful; mischievous; injurious; doing hurt; as, nocent qualities. Watts.

NO'CENT-LY, or NOC'U-OUS-LY, adv.

Hurtfully; injuriously.

NO'CIVE, a. [L. nocivus.]

Hurtful; injurious. Hooker.

NOCK, n.

A notch. [Obs.] [See Notch.]

NOCK, v.t.

To place in the notch. [Obs.] Chapman.

NOC-TAM-BU-LA'TION, n. [L. nox, night, and ambulo, to walk.]

A rising from bed and walking in sleep. Beddoes.

NOC-TAM'BU-LIST, n.

One who rises from bed and walks in his sleep. Arbuthnot uses noctambulo in the same sense; but it is a less analogical word.

NOC-TID'I-AL, a. [L. nox, night, and dies, day.]

Comprising a night and a day. [Little used.] Holder.

NOC-TIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. nox, night, and fero, to bring.]

Bringing night. [Not used.] Dict.

NOC-TIL'U-CA, n. [L. nox, night, and luceo, to shine.]

A species of phosphorus which shines in darkness without the previous aid of solar rays. Encyc.

NOC-TIL'U-COUS, a.

Shining in the night. Pennant.

NOC-TIV'A-GANT, a. [L. nox, night, and vagor, to wander.]

Wandering in the night.

NOC-TIV-A-GA'TION, n.

A roving in the night. Gayton.

NOC'TU-A-RY, n. [from L. nox, night.]

An account of what passes in the night. Addison.

NOC'TULE, n. [from L. nox, night.]

A large species of bat.

NOC'TURN, n. [L. nocturnus, by night.]

An office of devotion, or religious service by night. Stillingfleet.

NOC-TURN'AL, a. [L. nocturnus, from nox, night.]

1. Pertaining to night; as, nocturnal darkness.
2. Done or happening at night; as, a nocturnal expedition or assault; a nocturnal visit.
3. Nightly; done or being every night. From gilded roofs depending lamps display / Nocturnal beams, that emulate the day. Dryden.

NOC-TURN'AL, n.

An instrument, chiefly used at sea to take the altitude of stars about the pole, in order to ascertain the latitude. This may be a hemisphere, or a planisphere on the plane of the equinoctial. Encyc.