NIMBLE-FOOTED — NOIANCE

NIMBLE-FOOTED — NOIANCE NWAD NIMBLE-FOOTED.1

NIMBLE-FOOTED, a. Running with speed; light of foot. NWAD NIMBLE-FOOTED.1

NIMBLENESS, n. Lightness and agility in motion; quickness; celerity; speed; swiftness. It implies lightness and springiness. NWAD NIMBLENESS.1

The stag thought it better to trust to the nimbleness of his feet. NWAD NIMBLENESS.2

Ovid ranged over Parnassus with great nimbleness and agility. NWAD NIMBLENESS.3

NIMBLESS, n. Nimbleness. NWAD NIMBLESS.1

NIMBLE-WITTED, a. Quick; ready to speak. NWAD NIMBLE-WITTED.1

NIMBLY, adv. With agility; with light, quick motion. NWAD NIMBLY.1

He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber. NWAD NIMBLY.2

NIMIETY, n. The state of being too much. [Not in use.] NWAD NIMIETY.1

NIMMER, n. A thief. [Not in use.] NWAD NIMMER.1

NINCOMPOOP, n. [said to be a corruption of L. non compos, not of sound mind.] A fool; a blockhead; a trifling dotard. [A low word.] NWAD NINCOMPOOP.1

NINE, a. Denoting the number composed of eight and one; as nine men; nine days. NWAD NINE.1

NINE, n. The number composed of eight and one; or the number less by a unit than ten; three times three. NWAD NINE.2

NINE-FOLD, a. Nine times repeated. NWAD NINE-FOLD.1

NINE-HOLES, n. A game in which holes are made in the ground, into which a pellet is to be bowled. NWAD NINE-HOLES.1

NINE-PENCE, n. A silver coin of the value of nine pence. NWAD NINE-PENCE.1

NINE-PINS, n. A play with nine pins or sharpened 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. NWAD NINE-PINS.1

NINE-SCORE, n. The number of nine times twenty. NWAD NINE-SCORE.1

NINETEEN, a. Noting the number of nine and ten united; as nineteen years. NWAD NINETEEN.1

NINETEENTH, a. The ordinal of nineteen; designating nineteen. NWAD NINETEENTH.1

NINETIETH, a. The ordinal of ninety. NWAD NINETIETH.1

NINETY, a. Nine times ten; as ninety years. NWAD NINETY.1

NINNY, n. A fool; a simpleton. NWAD NINNY.1

NINTH, a. The ordinal of nine; designating the number nine, the next preceding ten; as the ninth day or month. NWAD NINTH.1

NINTH, n. In music, an interval containing an octave and a tone. NWAD NINTH.2

NIP, v.t. [G. a nipping tool; to nip, to cut off, to pinch.] NWAD NIP.1

1. To cut, bite or pinch off the end or nib, or to pinch off with the ends of the fingers. The word is used in both senses; the former is probably the true sense. Hence, NWAD NIP.2

2. To cut off the end of any thing; to clip, as with a knife or scissors; as, to nip off a shoot or twig. NWAD NIP.3

3. To blast; to kill or destroy the end of any thing; hence, to kill; as, the frost has nipped the corn; the leaves are nipped; the plant was nipped int he bud. Hence, to nip in the bud, is to kill or destroy in infancy or youth, or in the first stage of growth. NWAD NIP.4

4. To pinch, bite or affect the extremities of any thing; as a nipping frost; hence, to pinch or bite in general; to check growth. NWAD NIP.5

5. To check circulation. NWAD NIP.6

When blood is nipt. [Unusual.] NWAD NIP.7

6. To bite; to vex. NWAD NIP.8

And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. NWAD NIP.9

7. To satirize keenly; to taunt sarcastically. NWAD NIP.10

NIP, n. NWAD NIP.11

1. A pinch with the nails or teeth. NWAD NIP.12

2. A small cut, or a cutting off the end. NWAD NIP.13

3. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants; destruction by frost. NWAD NIP.14

4. A biting sarcasm; a taunt. NWAD NIP.15

5. A sip or small draught; as a nip of toddy. NWAD NIP.16

NIPPED, pp. Pinched; bit; cropped; blasted. NWAD NIPPED.1

NIPT, pp. Pinched; bit; cropped; blasted. NWAD NIPT.1

NIPPER, n. NWAD NIPPER.1

1. A satirist. [Not used.] NWAD NIPPER.2

2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four. NWAD NIPPER.3

NIPPERS, n. Small pinchers. NWAD NIPPERS.1

NIPPING, ppr. Pinching; pinching off; biting off the end; cropping; clipping; blasting; killing. NWAD NIPPING.1

NIPPINGLY, adv. With bitter sarcasm. NWAD NIPPINGLY.1

NIPPLE, n. NWAD NIPPLE.1

1. A teat; a dug; the spungy protuberance by which milk is drawn from the breasts of females. NWAD NIPPLE.2

2. The orifice at which any animal liquor is separated. NWAD NIPPLE.3

NIPPLEWORT, n. A plant of the genus Lapsana. NWAD NIPPLEWORT.1

NISAN, n. A month of the Jewish calendar, the first month of the sacred year and seventh of the civil year, answering nearly to our March. It was originally called Abibi, but began to be called Nisan after the captivity. NWAD NISAN.1

NISIPRIUS, n. In law, a writ which lies in cases where the jury being impaneled and returned before the justices of the bench, one of the parties requests to have this writ for the ease of the country, that the cause may be tried before the justices of the same county. The purport of the writ is, that the sheriff is commanded to bring to Westminster the men impanneled at a certain day, before the justices, nisi prius, that is, unless the justices shall first come into the county to take assizes. Hence the courts directed to try matters of fact in the several counties are called courts of Nisi Prius, or Nisi Prius courts. In some of the United States, similar courts are established, with powers defined by statute. NWAD NISIPRIUS.1

NIT, n. The egg of a louse or other small insect. NWAD NIT.1

NITENCY, n. [L. to shine.] NWAD NITENCY.1

1. Brightness; luster. [Little used.] NWAD NITENCY.2

2. [L. to strive.] Endeavor; effort; spring to expand itself. [Little used.] NWAD NITENCY.3

NITID, a. NWAD NITID.1

1. Bright; lustrous; shining. NWAD NITID.2

2. Gay; spruce; fine; applied to persons. [Little used.] NWAD NITID.3

NITER, n. [In Hebrew, the verb under which this word appears signifies to spring, leap, shake, and to strip or break; in Ch. to strip or to fall off; in Syriac, the same; in Sam. to keep, to watch or guard.] A salt, called also salt-peter [stone-salt,] and in the modern nomenclature of chimistry, nitrate of potash. It exists in large quantities in the earth, and is continually formed in inhabited places, on walls sheltered from rain, and in all situations where animal matters are decomposed, under stables and barns, etc. It is of great use in the arts; is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is useful in medicines, in preserving meat, butter, etc. It is a white substance, and has an acrid, bitterish taste. NWAD NITER.1

NITHING, n. A coward; a dastard; a poltroon. [See Niding.] NWAD NITHING.1

NITRATE, n. A salt formed by the union of the nitric acid with a base; as nitrate of soda. NWAD NITRATE.1

NITRATED, a. Combined with niter. NWAD NITRATED.1

NITRIC, a. Impregnated with niter. Nitric acid is the acid saturated with oxygen, or an acid composed of oxygen and nitrogen or azote. NWAD NITRIC.1

NITRIFICATION, n. The process of forming niter. NWAD NITRIFICATION.1

NITRIFY, v.t. [L.] To form into niter. NWAD NITRIFY.1

NITRITE, n. A salt formed by the combination of the nitrous acid with a base. NWAD NITRITE.1

NITROGEN, n. [Gr. to produce.] The element of niter; that which produces niter; that element or component part of air which is called azote. [See Azote.] NWAD NITROGEN.1

NITROGENOUS, a. Pertaining to nitrogen; producing niter. NWAD NITROGENOUS.1

NITROLEUCIC, a. Designating an acid obtained from leucine acted on by niter. NWAD NITROLEUCIC.1

NITROMETER, n. [Gr. to measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the quality or value of niter. NWAD NITROMETER.1

NITRO-MURIATIC, a. Partaking of niter and muria or sea-salt. The nitro-muriatic acid is a combination or mixture of nitric and muriatic acid. NWAD NITRO-MURIATIC.1

NITROUS, a. Pertaining to niter; partaking of the qualities of niter, or resembling it. Nitrous acid is one of the compounds formed of nitrogen and oxygen, in which the oxygen is in a lower proportion than that in which the same elements form nitric acid. NWAD NITROUS.1

NITRY, a. Nitrous; pertaining to niter; producing niter. NWAD NITRY.1

NITTER, n. [from nit.] The horse bee that deposits nits on horses. NWAD NITTER.1

NITTILY, adv. [from nitty.] Lousily. [Not used.] NWAD NITTILY.1

NITTY, a. [from nit.] Full of nits; abounding with nits. NWAD NITTY.1

NIVAL, a. [L. snow.] Abounding with snow; snowy. NWAD NIVAL.1

NIVEOUS, a. Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow. NWAD NIVEOUS.1

NO. an abbreviation of number. NWAD NO.1

NO, adv. NWAD NO.2

1. A word of denial or refusal, expressing a negative, and equivalent to nay and not. When it expresses a negative answer, it is opposed to yes or yea. Will you go? It is frequently used in denying propositions, and opposed to affirmation or concession. “That I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.” Exodus 16:4. No, in this use, is deemed less elegant than not, but the use is very general. NWAD NO.3

2. After another negative, it repeats the negation with great emphasis. NWAD NO.4

There is none righteous, no, not one. Romans 3:10; 1 Corinthians 6:5. NWAD NO.5

Sometimes it follows an affirmative proposition in like manner, but still it denies with emphasis and gives force to the following negative. NWAD NO.6

To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour. Galatians 2:5. NWAD NO.7

Sometimes it begins a sentence with a like emphatical signification, strengthening the following negative. NWAD NO.8

No, not the bow which so adorns the skies, so glorious is, or boasts so many dyes. NWAD NO.9

3. Not in any degree; as no longer; no shorter; no more; no less. NWAD NO.10

4. When no is repeated, it expresses negation or refusal with emphasis; as no, no. NWAD NO.11

NO, a. NWAD NO.12

1. Not any; none. NWAD NO.13

Let there be no strife between thee and me. Genesis 13:8. NWAD NO.14

2. Not any; not one. NWAD NO.15

Thou shalt worship no other God. Exodus 34:14. NWAD NO.16

3. When it precedes where, as in no where, it may be considered as adverbial, though originally an adjective. NWAD NO.17

NIBILIARY, n. [See Noble.] A history of noble families. NWAD NIBILIARY.1

NOBILITATE, v.t. [See Noble.] To make noble; to ennoble. NWAD NOBILITATE.1

NOBILITATION, n. The act of making noble. NWAD NOBILITATION.1

NOBILITY, n. NWAD NOBILITY.1

1. Dignity of mind; greatness; grandeur; that elevation of soul which comprehends bravery, generosity, magnamimity, intrepidity, and contempt of every thing that dishonors character. NWAD NOBILITY.2

Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. NWAD NOBILITY.3

They thought it great their sovereign to control, and named their pride, nobility of soul. NWAD NOBILITY.4

2. Antiquity of family; descent from noble ancestors; distinction by blood, usually joined with riches. NWAD NOBILITY.5

When I took up Boccace unawares, I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda. NWAD NOBILITY.6

3. The qualities which constitute distinction of rank in civil society, according to the customs or laws of the country; that eminence or dignity which a man derives from birth or title conferred, and which places him in an order above common men. In Great Britain, nobility is extended to five ranks, those of duke, marquis, earl, viscount and baron. NWAD NOBILITY.7

4. The persons collectively who enjoy rank above commoners; the peerage; as the English nobility; French, German, Russian nobility. NWAD NOBILITY.8

NOBLE, a. NWAD NOBLE.1

1. Great; elevated; dignified; being above every thing that can dishonor reputation; as a nobel mind; a noble courage; noble deeds of valor. NWAD NOBLE.2

2. Exalted; elevated; sublime. NWAD NOBLE.3

Statues, with winding ivy crown’d, belong to nobler poets for a nobler song. NWAD NOBLE.4

3. Magnificent; stately; splendid; as a noble parade; a noble edifice. NWAD NOBLE.5

4. Of an ancient and splendid family; as nobel by descent. NWAD NOBLE.6

5. Distinguished from commoners by rank and title; as a noble personage. NWAD NOBLE.7

6. Free; generous; liberal; as a noble heart. NWAD NOBLE.8

7. Principal; capital; as the noble parts of the body. NWAD NOBLE.9

8. Ingenuous; candid; of an excellent disposition; ready to receive truth. Acts 17:11. NWAD NOBLE.10

9. Of the best kind; choice; excellent; as a noble vine. Jeremiah 2:21. NWAD NOBLE.11

NOBLE, n. NWAD NOBLE.12

1. A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer; as a duke, marquis, earl, viscount or baron. NWAD NOBLE.13

2. In Scripture, a person of honorable family or distinguished by station. Exodus 24:11; Nehemiah 6:17. NWAD NOBLE.14

3. Originally, a gold coin, but now a money of account, value 6s. 8d. sterling, or $1 48 cts. NWAD NOBLE.15

NOBLEWOMAN, n. A female of noble rank. NWAD NOBLEWOMAN.1

NOBLENESS, n. NWAD NOBLENESS.1

1. Greatness; dignity; ingenuousness; magnanimity; elevation of mind or of condition, particularly of the mind. NWAD NOBLENESS.2

His purposes are full of honesty, nobleness and integrity. NWAD NOBLENESS.3

Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat build in her loveliest. The nobleness of life is to do this-- NWAD NOBLENESS.4

2. Distinction by birth; honor derived from a noble ancestry. NWAD NOBLENESS.5

NOBLESS, n. NWAD NOBLESS.1

1. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females. NWAD NOBLESS.2

2. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [In these senses, not now used.] NWAD NOBLESS.3

NOBLY, adv. NWAD NOBLY.1

1. Of noble extraction; descended from a family of rank; as nobly born or descended. NWAD NOBLY.2

2. With greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as a deed nobly done. He nobly preferred death to disgrace. NWAD NOBLY.3

3. Splendidly; magnificently. He was nobly entertained. NWAD NOBLY.4

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? NWAD NOBLY.5

NOBODY, n. [no and body.] No person; no one. NWAD NOBODY.1

NOCENT, a. [L. to hurt, from striking.] Hurtful; mischievous; injurious; doing hurt; as nocent qualities. NWAD NOCENT.1

NOCIVE, a. Hurtful; injurious. NWAD NOCIVE.1

NOCK, n. A notch. [See Notch.] NWAD NOCK.1

NOCK, v.t. To place in the notch. NWAD NOCK.2

NOCTAMBULATION, n. [L. night, to walk.] A rising from bed and walking in sleep. NWAD NOCTAMBULATION.1

NOCTAMBULIST, 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. NWAD NOCTAMBULIST.1

NOCTIDIAL, a. [L. night, and dies, day.] Comprising a night and a day. [Little used.] NWAD NOCTIDIAL.1

NOCTIFEROUS, a. [L. night, and to bring.] Bringing night. [Not used.] NWAD NOCTIFEROUS.1

NOCTILUCA, n. [L. night, and to shine.] A species of phosphorus which shines in darkness without the previous aid of solar rays. NWAD NOCTILUCA.1

NOCTILUCOUS, a. Shining in the night. NWAD NOCTILUCOUS.1

NOCTIVAGANT, a. [L. night, and to wander.] Wandering in the night. NWAD NOCTIVAGANT.1

NOCTIVAGATION, n. A roving in the night. NWAD NOCTIVAGATION.1

NOCTUARY, n. [from L. night.] An account of what passes in the night. NWAD NOCTUARY.1

NOCTULE, n. [from L. night.] A large species of bat. NWAD NOCTULE.1

NOCTURN, n. [L. by night.] An office of devotion, or religious service by night. NWAD NOCTURN.1

NOCTURNAL, a. [L. night.] NWAD NOCTURNAL.1

1. Pertaining to night; as nocturnal darkness. NWAD NOCTURNAL.2

2. Done or happening at night; as a nocturnal expedition or assault; a nocturnal visit. NWAD NOCTURNAL.3

3. Nightly; done or being every night. NWAD NOCTURNAL.4

From gilded roofs depending lamps display nocturnal beams, that emulate the day. NWAD NOCTURNAL.5

NOCTURNAL, 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. NWAD NOCTURNAL.6

NOCUMENT, n. [L. To hurt.] Harm. NWAD NOCUMENT.1

NOD, v.i. [Gr. contracted; a nod; to nod, to beckon, a leap a spring; to leap, to throb or beat, as the pulse] NWAD NOD.1

1. To incline the head with a quick motion, either forward or sidewise, as persons nod in sleep. NWAD NOD.2

2. To bend or incline with a quick motion; as nodding plumes. NWAD NOD.3

The nodding verdure of its brow. NWAD NOD.4

3. To be drowsy. NWAD NOD.5

Your predecessors, contrary to other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding. NWAD NOD.6

4. To make a slight bow; also, to beckon with a nod. NWAD NOD.7

NOD, v.t. To incline or bend; to shake. NWAD NOD.8

NOD, n. NWAD NOD.9

1. A quick declination of the head. NWAD NOD.10

A look or a nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss. NWAD NOD.11

2. A quick declination or inclination. NWAD NOD.12

Like a drunken sailor on a mast, ready with every nod to tumble down. NWAD NOD.13

3. A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep. NWAD NOD.14

4. A slight obeisance. NWAD NOD.15

5. A command; as in L. numen, for nutamen. NWAD NOD.16

NODATED, a. Knotted. A nodated hyperbola is one that by turning round crosses itself. NWAD NODATED.1

NODATION, n. [L. To tie.] The act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [Little used.] NWAD NODATION.1

NODDEN, a. Bent; inclined. [Not in use.] NWAD NODDEN.1

NODDER, n. One who nods; a drowsy person. NWAD NODDER.1

NODDING, ppr. Inclining the head with a short quick motion. NWAD NODDING.1

NODDLE, n. [L. A lump; or from nod.] The head; in contempt. NWAD NODDLE.1

Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. NWAD NODDLE.2

NODDY, n. NWAD NODDY.1

1. A simpleton; a fool. NWAD NODDY.2

2. A fowl of the genus Sterna, very simple and easily taken. NWAD NODDY.3

3. A game at cards. NWAD NODDY.4

NODE, n. NWAD NODE.1

1. Properly, a knot; a knob; hence, NWAD NODE.2

2. In surgery, a swelling of the periosteum, tendons or bones. NWAD NODE.3

3. 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 dragons head; that where a planet descends to the south, is called the descending node, or dragons tail. NWAD NODE.4

4. In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty. NWAD NODE.5

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 suns declination and his place in the ecliptic, etc. in dials with furniture, are shown. NWAD NODE.6