NONES 



Nones (Lat. w.nm. nintli). Tim 

 liftli, and in March,. May, July, and 

 < >ct. t he seventh day v >f the Roman 

 month. See Calonda% ; Calends; 

 Canonical Hours. 



Nonet (Lat. nonua, ninth 1. 

 1 < -i in 1 1 ".- it i" in for nine per- 

 formers. Tliis coiiiliiiiatinii 

 common; examples are Spohr's 

 Op. HI, Rheinberger's Op. I'M, and 

 Stanford's Serenade, Op. 95, all 

 scored for stringed and wind in- 

 strument*. 



Non-ferrous. Containing no 

 iron. The term came into promin- 

 ence in Mils, uii!u' to the passing 

 of the N'on -I'YiTiuis Metal Industry 

 Act, \\hich, with the intention of 

 breaking the monopoly of enemy 

 countries in non-ferrous metals, 

 made it illegal for unlicensed 

 persons to carry on in the United 

 Kingdom the business of extracting, 

 melting, rffining, or dealing by 

 way of wholesale trade in non- 

 ferrous metals or their ores. 

 Licences may only be granted to 

 British subjects. The chief non- 

 ferrous metals are copper, nickel, 

 /inc. lead, gold, platinum, and 

 silver. The licences granted re- 

 mained in force during the continu- 

 ance of the Great War, and for a 

 period of five years afterwards. 



Nonjurors. Name given to a 

 number of clergymen of the Church 

 of England who refused to take 

 the oath of allegiance to William 

 and Mary in 1689. Their conten- 

 tion was that they had already 

 taken the oath to James II, and 

 could not transfer their allegiance 

 to another sovereign at the bidding 

 of Parliament. In 1690 they were 

 deprived of their livings. 



The nonjurora included William 

 Bancroft, archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, Thomas Ken, and several 

 bishops, as well as the scholars 

 William Sherlock and Jeremy 

 Collier. Later they were joined by 

 William Law. They included also 

 a few laymen, Henry Dodwell and 

 Henry Hyde, earl of Clarendon, 

 among them. Altogether they 

 numbered about 400. When de- 

 prived they held services of their 

 own, and kept up an episcopal suc- 

 cession, but they gradually died 

 out. See Divine Right ; Jacobites ; 

 consult also The Nonjurors, J. H. 

 Overton, 1902. 



Nonneboschen (Nun's Wood). 

 Wood of Belgium, in the prov. of 

 W. Flanders. Situated J m. N. of 

 the Ypres-Menin road, about 3 m. 

 E. of the former, and near Glen- 

 corse Wood, it was prominent in 

 the battles of Ypres, in the Great 

 War. See Ypres, Battles of. 



Nonpareil (Cyanoapiza ctrw). 

 Cage bird, also known as the 

 painted bunting. It is a summer 

 migrant of the S. United States, 



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!ii.-h winters in Central America. 

 The hen bird in green above and 

 yellow below, but two-year-old 

 cooks hare the head, neck, and 

 upper part of the wings a 

 blue, a yellow back shadin 

 groen behind, whilst tin- under- 

 pants and the rump are bright 

 scarlet. 



Nonpareil. Name of printing 

 type. Half the size of pica, it is one 

 size smaller than minion, and one 

 size larger than pearl or agate, and 

 is also called 6-point. Twelve lines 

 make an inch. In French and 

 German it is called nonpareilU ; 

 Dutch, nonpareil; Italian, nom- 

 pariglia , Spanish, nomparel. The 

 word is applied to corresponding 



NOOTKA 



there in the time of Charles II, and 

 called it a very noble bouse, but 

 that sovereign gave it to the 

 duchess of Cleveland, who sold it, 

 .HP I it was pulled down about 

 1680. Nothing of the palace re- 



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On Old London Bridge was a 

 ictnarkable structure called Non- 

 such or Nonesuch House. It stood 

 on the 7th and 8th arches from the 

 Southwark end, was constructed 

 entinly of wood, and is said to 

 have been brought over from H.,| 

 land piece by piece, and to have 

 been put together by dovetailing 

 atid i>egs without toe use of a 

 single metal nail. It projected 

 beyond each side of the badge, had 



Nonsuch. The ralace built by Henry VIII between Cheam and EwelL From a 

 print ot 1582 



thicknesses of rules, clumps, slu-js. 

 and reglet. See Printing. 



Non possumus (Lat., we are 

 not able). Term used, chiefly in 

 legal circles, for a definite refusal 

 to allow a thing to be done. 



Non-rigid. Type of airship in 

 which the shape of the envelope is 

 entirely maintained by t e pres- 

 sure of the gas which it contains. 

 See Airship. 



Non sequitur (Lat., it does not 

 follow). In logic, an inference 

 which does not follow from the 

 premises. Specifically, what is 

 known as the fallacy of the conse- 

 quent, where the relation between 

 subject and predicate in an affirm- 

 ative universal proposition is in- 

 verted. Honey is yellow ; you see 

 something yellow ; therefore it 

 must be honey. See Logic. 



Nonsuch. Name ^iven by 

 Henry VIII to a palace which ho 

 built between Cheam and Kwcll. 

 in Surrey. Begun in 1538 and 

 nearly completed in 1547, Mary 

 sold it to the carl of Arundel, who 

 finished it, but Elizabeth bought 

 it back again, and in her time and 

 that of the first three Stewarts it 

 was a royal residence. Pepys was 



a square tower at each comer 

 crowned by small domes, and in 

 eich centre a carved gable. Built 

 about 1580, it was taken down 

 about 1757. See London Bridge. 



Non-suit (Fr. non suit, he does 

 not pursue). Term formerly used 

 in Knglish law. If a plaintiff, 

 owing to some technicality of pro- 

 cedure, realized that he could not 

 succeed at the coming trial of his 

 case, he could elect to be non- 

 suited. By this device 1 e could 

 recommence his action on paying 

 ail the costs, which he could 

 not do after judgement given for 

 the defendant. Non-suit is now 

 obsolete. 



Nootka. Group of American 

 Indian tribes on the W. coast of 

 Vancouver Island, British Colum- 

 bia. Numbering in 1916 1.77 1 '. 

 they form with the Kwakiutl 

 the Wakashan stock, and are 

 allied to the Makah of the adjacent 

 Washington coast. Their rectan- 

 gular timber houses are painted 

 with fantastic human and animal 

 figures ; they use yew or crab- 

 apple bows 3 ft. loin; ; and in their 

 ceremonial dances depict bunts, 

 luit ties, and seal life. 



