Dictionary: NON-PA-REIL – NON-SENS'IC-AL-NESS

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NON-PA-REIL, a. [nonparel'.]

Having no equal; peerless. Whitlock.

NON-PA-REIL, n. [nonparel'; Fr. non, not or no, and pareil, equal.]

  1. Excellence unequaled. Shak.
  2. A sort of apple.
  3. A sort of printing type very small, and the smallest now used except three.

NON-PAY'MENT, n.

Neglect of payment. S. E. Dwight.

NON'PLUS, n. [L. non, not, and plus, more, further.]

Puzzle; insuperable difficulty; a state in which one is unable to proceed or decide. Locke. South.

NON'PLUS, v.t.

To puzzle; to confound; to put to a stand; to stop by embarrassment. Dryden. Your situation has nonplussed me. Th. Scott.

NON-PON-DER-OS'I-TY, n.

Destitution of weight; levity. Black.

NON-PON'DER-OUS, a.

Having no weight.

NON-PRO-DUC'TION, n.

A failure to produce or exhibit.

NON-PRO-FES'SION-AL, a.

Not belonging to profession; not done by or proceeding from professional men. Miner.

NON-PRO-FI'CIEN-CY, n.

Failure to make progress.

NON-PRO-FI'CIENT, n.

One who has failed to improve or make progress in any study or pursuit. Bp Hall.

NON-PROS, n. [or v. Non Pros.]

Contraction of nolle prosequi, the plaintif will not prosecute. It is used also as a verb.

NON-RE-GARD-ANCE, n.

Want of due regard. Dict.

NON-REN-DI'TION, n.

Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due. The non-payment of a debt, or the non-rendition of a service which is due, is an injury for which the subsequent reparation of the loss sustained – is an atonement. S. E. Dwight.

NON-RE-SEM'BLANCE, n. [s as z.]

Unlikeness; dissimilarity.

NON-RES'I-DENCE, n. [s as z.]

Failure or neglect of residing at the place where one is stationed, or where official duties require one to reside, or on one's own lands. Swift.

NON-RES'I-DENT, a.

Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a non-resident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

NON-RES'I-DENT, n.

One who does not reside on one's own lands, or in the place where official duties require. In the United States, lands in one state or township belonging to a person residing in another state or township, are called the lands of non-residents.

NON-RE-SIST'ANCE, n. [s as z.]

The omission of resist and passive obedience; submission to authority, power or usurpation without opposition.

NON-RE-SIST'ANT, a.

Making no resistance to power or oppression. Arbuthnot.

NON-SANE', a. [L. non, not, and sanus, sound.]

Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory. Blackstone.

NON'SENSE, n.

  1. No sense; words or language which have no meaning, or which convey no just ideas; absurdity. Dryden.
  2. Trifles; things of no importance. Thomson.

NON-SENS'IC-AL, a.

Unmeaning; absurd; foolish. Ray.

NON-SENS'IC-AL-LY, adv.

Absurdly; without meaning.

NON-SENS'IC-AL-NESS, n.

Jargon; absurdity; that which conveys no proper ideas.