Dictionary: NON-SENS'I-TIVE – NOON'STEAD

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NON-SENS'I-TIVE, a.

Wanting sense or perception. Feltham.

NON-SLAVE-HOLD-ING, a.

Not possessing slaves.

NON-SO-LU'TION, n.

Failure of solution or explanation. Broome.

NON-SOLV'EN-CY, n.

Inability to pay debts. Swift.

NON-SOLV'ENT, a.

Not able to pay debts; insolvent. Johnson.

NON-SPAR'ING, a.

Sparing none; all-destroying; merciless. Shak.

NON-SUB-MIS'SION, n.

Want of submission.

NON-SUB-MIS'SIVE, a.

Not submissive.

NON'SUCH, n. [See NONESUCH.]

NON'SUIT, a.

Nonsuited. The plaintif must become nonsuit. Tyng's Rep.

NON'SUIT, n.

In law, the default, neglect or non-appearance of the plaintiff in a suit, when called in court, by which the plaintiff signifies his intention to drop the suit. Hence a nonsuit amounts to a stoppage of the suit. A nonsuit differs from a retraxit; a nonsuit is the default or neglect of the plaintiff, and after this he may bring another suit for the same cause; but a retraxit is an open positive renunciation of the suit, by which he forever loses his action. [See the verb.] Blackstone.

NON'SUIT, v.t.

To determine or record that the plaintiff drops his suit, on default of appearance when called in court. When a plaintiff being called in court, declines to answer, or when he neglects to deliver his declaration, he is supposed to drop his suit; he is therefore nonsuited, that is, his non-appearance is entered on the record, and this entry amounts to a judgment of the court that the plaintiff has dropped the suit. When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited. Z. Swift.

NON'SUIT-ED, pp.

Adjudged to have deserted the suit by default of appearance; as a plaintif.

NON'SUIT-ING, ppr.

Adjudging to have abandoned the suit by non-appearance or other neglect; as a plaintif.

NON-U'NI-FORM-IST, n.

One who believes in the changes of the earth, from extraordinary causes. Am. Eclect.

NON-US'ANCE, n. [non-yu'zance.]

Neglect of use. Brown.

NON-US-ER, n. [non-yu'zer.]

  1. A not using; failure to use; neglect of official duty; default of performing the duties and services required of an officer. An office may be forfeited by misuser or non-user. Blackstone.
  2. Neglect or omission of use. A franchise may be lost by misuser or non-user. Supreme Court, U. S.

NOO'DLE, a.

A simpleton. [A vulgar word.]

NOOK, n. [See Nich.]

A corner; a narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; as, a hollow nook. Milton.

NOON, a.

Meridional. How oft the noon bell – Young.

NOON, n. [Sax. non; D. noen; W. nawn; that is at the summit; said to be from naw, that is up or ultimate, that limits, also nine. It has been supposed that the ninth hour, among the Romanic, was the time of eating the chief meal; this hour was three o'clock, P. M. In Danish, none is an afternooning, a collation.]

  1. The middle of the day; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock.
  2. Dryden used the word for midnight. “At the noon of night.”

NOON'DAY, a.

Pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday, heat.

NOON'DAY, n.

Mid-day; twelve o'clock in the day. Boyle.

NOON'ING, n.

Repose at noon; sometimes, repast at noon. Addison.

NOON'STEAD, a.

The station of the sun at noon. Drayton.