Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: NOC-TURN'AL-LY – NOG'GING
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NOC-TURN'AL-LY, adv.
By night; nightly.
NOC'U-MENT, n. [L. nocumentum, from noceo, to hurt.]
Harm. [Not used.]
NOC'U-OUS, a.
Hurtful. Bailey.
NOD, n.
- A quick declination of the head. A took or a nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss. Locke.
- A quick declination or inclination. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.
- A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep. Locke.
- A slight obeisance. Shak.
- A command; as, in L. numen, for nutamen.
NOD, v.i. [L. nuto; Gr. νευω, contracted; W. amnaid, a nod; amneidiaw, to nod, to beckon, from naid, a leap, a spring; neidiaw, to leap, to throb or beat, as the pulso; Ar. نَادَ nada, to nod, to shake; Heb. Ch. and Syr. נוד, to move, to shake, to wander. It coincides in elements with L. nato, to swim. Class Nd, No. 3, 9, 10.]
- To incline the head with a quick motion, either forward or sidewise, as persons nod in sleep.
- To bend or incline with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes. The nodding verdure of its brow. Thomson.
- To be drowsy. Your predecessors, contrary to other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding. Addison.
- To make a slight bow; also, to beckon with a nod.
NOD, v.t.
To incline or bend; to shake. Shak.
NO'DA-TED, a. [L. nodatus.]
Knotted. A nodated hyperbola is one that by turning round crosses itself.
NO-DA'TION, n. [L. nodatio, from nodo, to tie.]
The act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [Little used.]
NOD'DEN, a.
Bent; inclined. [Not in use.] Thomson.
NOD'DER, n.
One who nods; a drowsy person. Pope.
NOD'DING, a.
In botany, a substitute for the term nutant; having the top bent downward.
NOD'DING, ppr.
Inclining the head with a short quick motion.
NOD'DLE, n. [qu. L. nodulus, a lump; or from nod.]
The head; in contempt. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange.
NOD'DY, n. [qu. Gr. νωθης.]
- A simpleton; a fool.
- A fowl of the genus Sterna, very simple and easily taken.
- A game at cards. B. Jonson.
NODE, n. [L. nodus, Eng. knot; allied probably to knit, Sax. cnyttan.]
- Properly, a knot; a knob; hence,
- In surgery, a swelling of the periosteum, tendons or bones.
- In astronomy, the point where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic. These points are two, and that where a planet ascends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node, or dragon's head; that where a planet descends to the south, is called the descending node, or dragon's tail. Encyc.
- In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty. 5, In dialing, a point or hole in the gnomon of a dial, by the shadow or light of which, either the hour of the day in dials without furniture, or the parallels of the sun's declination and his place in the ecliptic, &c. in dials with furniture, are shown.
- In botany, the part of a plant where the leaves are expanded and the buds formed. Lindley. Nodes or Nodal points, in music, the fixed points of a sonorous chord, at which it divides itself, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic sounds; as the strings of the Eolian harp.
NO-DOSE', a. [L. nodosus, from nodus, knot.]
Knotted; having knots or swelling joints. Martyn.
NO-DOS'I-TY, n.
Knottiness. Brown.
NOD'U-LAR, a.
Pertaining to or in the form of a nodule or knot.
NOD'ULE, n. [L. nodulus.]
A little knot or lump.
NOD'UL-ED, a.
Having little knots or lumps. Darwin.
NO-ET'IC, a. [Gr. νοετικος, from νους, the mind.]
Intellectual; performed by the understanding.
NOG, n. [abbrev. of Noggen.]
A little pot; also, ale. Skinner. Swift.
NOG'GEN, a.
Hard; rough; harsh. [Not used.] King Charles.
NOG'GIN, n.
A small mug or wooden cup.
NOG'GING, n.
A partition of scantlings filled with bricks. Mason.