noise 
Ryght thus the peple merily ioyng 
As off the good rule noysed of thaim to. 
Rim. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1556. 
All these sayings were noised abroad. Luke i. 65. 
It is noised he hath a mass of treasure. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 8. 404. 
2f. To report of; spread rumors concerning; 
accuse publicly. 
The wydow noysyth you, Sir Thomas, that ye sold awey 
salt but for xxs. that she might hafe had xls. for every 
wev ; I pray you aunswer that for your acquytaille. 
Fasten Letters, I. 228. 
And for as mech as I am credybilly informyd how that 
Sir Myle Stapylton. knyght, with other yll dysposed per- 
sones, defame and falsly noyse me in morderyng of Thomas 
Denys, the Crowner, , . . and the seyd Stapylton ferther- 
more noyseth me with gret robries. Paston Letters, II. 27. 
3f. To disturb with noise. Dryden. 
noiseful (noiz'ful), . [< noise + -fill.] Noisy; 
loud; clamorous; making much noise or talk. 
He sought for quiet, and content of mind, 
Which noiseful towns and courts can never know. 
Dryden, Epil. Spoken at Oxford (1674), 1. 5. 
noiseless (noiz'les), a. [< noise + -less."] Mak- 
ing no noise or bustle ; silent. 
On our quick'st decrees 
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time 
Steals ere we can effect them. 
Shak., All's Well, v. 8. 41. 
Along the cool sequestered vale of life 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 
Gray, Elegy. 
noiselessly (noiz'les-li), adv. In a noiseless 
manner; without noise ; silently, 
noiselessness (noiz'les-nes), . The state of 
being noiseless or silent; absence of noise; 
silence. 
noisette (nwo-zef), n. [F., < Noisette, a proper 
name, < noisette, dim. of noix, a nut, < L. nux, 
a nut: see nucleus.'] A variety of rose. 
The great yellow noisette swings its canes across the 
window. Kingdey. 
noisily (noi'zi-li), adv. In a noisy manner; 
with noise ; with noisiness. 
noisiness (noi'zi-nes), n. The state of being 
noisy; loudness of sound; clamorousness. 
noisome (noi'sum), a. [Formerly also not/some, 
noisom; < noy + -some. Not connected with 
noise.] If. Hurtful; mischievous; noxious: 
as, a noisome pestilence. 
I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the 
sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the 
pestilence. Ezek. xiv. 21. 
Sir John Forster, I dare well say, 
Made us this noisome afternoon. 
Raid of the Reidsmire (Child's Ballads, VI. 139). 
They became noysome euen to the very persons of men. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 140. 
2. Offensive to sight or smell, especially to 
the latter; producing loathing or disgust ; dis- 
gusting; specifically, ill-smelling. 
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind Is but foul 
breath, and foul breath is noisome. 
Shak., Much Ado, v. 2. 53. 
Under the Conventicle Act his goods had been distrain- 
ed, and he had been flung into one noisome jail after an- 
other, among highwaymen and housebreakers. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
3. Disagreeable, in a general sense ; extreme- 
ly offensive. [Bare.] 
She was a horrid little girl, . . . and had a slow, crab- 
like way of going along, without looking at what she was 
about, which was very noisome and detestable. 
Dickens, Message from the Sea, iii. 
= Sy n. 2. Pernicious, etc. See noxious. 
nqisomely (noi'sum-li), adv. Offensively to 
sight or smell ; with noxious or offensive odors, 
noisomeness (noi'sum-nes), n. The quality of 
being noisome, hurtful, unwholesome, or offen- 
sive; noxiousness; offensiveness. 
Foggy nouomcness from fens or marshes. 
Sir H. Wotton, Elem. of Architecture. 
There was not a touch of anything wholesome, or pleas- 
ant, or attractive, to relieve the noisomeness of the Ghetto 
to its visitors. Hmvells, Venetian Life, xiv. 
noisy (noi'zi), a. [<. noise + -yl .] 1. Making 
a loud noise or sound ; clamorous ; turbulent. 
Although he employs his talents wholly in his closet, he 
is sure to raise the hatred of the noisy crowd. Swift. 
2. Full of noise ; characterized by noise ; at- 
tended with noise : as, a noisy place ; a noisy 
quarrel. 
O leave the noisy town ! come and see 
Our country cots, and live content with me ! 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Eclogues, ii. 35. 
Noisy duck. See duck'2. = Syn. Vociferous, blatant, brawl- 
Ing, uproarious, boisterous. 
nokt, n. A Middle English form of nock. 
noket, n. A Middle English form of nook. 
nokes (noks), . [Prob. from the surname 
Nokes, which is due to ME. okcs, oaks.] A 
ninny ; a simpleton. 
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nokettt, a [A dim. of noke, nook.] A nook of 
ground. HallhreU. [Prov. Eng.] 
nokta (nok'tji), . A rhomboidal mark in a 
table of logarithms to mark a change of the 
figure in a certain place of decimals. 
Nola (no'la), n. [NL.] The typical genus of 
Nolid<e, founded by Leachin 1819, by him placed 
in Pyrales, by others referred to Boiabi/rrx. 
The fore wings are short, much widened behind, with 
moderately pointed tips and a slightly curved hind bor- 
der ; there are patches of raised scales below the costa, in 
variable number; the hind wings are short, rounded, and 
unmarked ; nervures 3 and 4, 6 and 7 rise on long stalks, 
or 4 is wanting ; and the male antenna; are strongly cili- 
ated or pectinated. The larve are broad and flat, with 14 
legs and hairy warts. It is a wide-spread genus, rather 
northern. N. sorghiella feeds on sorghum in the United 
States. 
Nolana (no-la'nii), n. [NL. (Linnseus, 1767), < 
LL. nola, a little bell (for a dog) ; a doubtful 
word, occurring but once, with a var. nota, a 
mark, sign, prob. the right form.] A genus of 
plants of the order Convolvulacea;, type of the 
tribe Nolanea!, and known by the broadly bell- 
shaped angled corolla and basilar style. There 
are about 7 species, of Chili and Peru, mainly maritime. 
They are prostrate or spreading plants with undivided 
leaves and bluish flowers in the axils. They are some- 
times called Chilian bell-flower. N. atriplicifoKa, with sky- 
blue flowers having white and yellow center, is the most 
frequently cultivated. 
Nolaneae (np-la'ne-e), n.pl. [NL. (G. Don, 1838), 
< Nolana + -ece.] A tribe .of dicotyledonous 
gamopetalous plants of the order Convolvula- 
cea!, typified by the genus Nolana, and distin- 
guished by the plicate corolla and fruit divided 
into nutlet-like lobes. Five genera and 26 species 
are known, all natives of South America. They are herbs 
or shrubs with alternate leaves without stipules. Lindley 
gave to the group the rank of an order (ffolanacete). 
noldt. A contraction of ne wolde, would not. 
nolet, n. See noil. 
nolens VOlens (no'lenz vo'lenz). [L. : nolens, 
ppr. of nolle, be unwilling (see nolition) ; volem, 
ppr. of velle, be willing : see volition.] Unwill- 
ing (or) willing ; willy-nilly. 
Nolidae (uol'i-de), n.pl. [NL., < Nola + -idar.] 
A family of moths named from the genus Nola. 
noli-me-tangere (no'li-me-tan'je-re), n. [< L. 
noli me tangerc, touch me not; noli, 2d pers. 
impv. of nolle, not wish, be unwilling (see no- 
lition); me = E. me; tangere, touch (see tan- 
gent). Ct. touch-me-not.] 1. Inbot. : (a) Aplant, 
Impatiens Noli-me-tangere. (o) Aplant of the ge- 
nus Ecballimn, the wild or squirting cucumber. 
2. In med., a lupus or epithelioma or other 
eroding ulcerof the face; more especially, lupus 
of the nose. 3. A picture representing Jesus 
appearing to St. Mary Magdalene after his 
resurrection, as related in John xx. 
nolition (no-lish'on), n. [= F. nolition = Sp. 
nolicion = Pg. nolifSo; < L. nolle (1st pers. sing, 
pres. ind. nolo), be unwilling (< ne, not, + velle, 
will), + -ition. Cf. volition. Ct. LL. nolentia, 
unwillingness.] Unwillingness: the opposite 
of volition. [Rare.] 
There are many that pray against a temptation for a 
month together, and so long as the prayer is fervent, so 
long the man hath a nolition, and a direct enmity against 
the lust. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 640. 
nollt (nol), n. [Also nole, nowl, notil, noule; < ME. 
nol, noil, nolle, the head, neck, < AS. hnol, 
(hnoll-) = OHG. hnol, nollo = MHG. nol, the top 
of the head.] 1. The head. 
Though this be derklich endited ffor a dull nolle, 
Miche nede is it not to mwse there-on. 
Richard the Redeless. i. 20. 
Then came October full of merry glee ; 
For yet his noule wastotty of the must, 
Which he was treading in the wine-fats see. 
Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 39. 
2. Head-work; hard study. 
Then I would desire Mr. Dean and Mr. Leaver to re- 
mit the scholars a day of noule and punishment, that they 
might remember me. 
Ascham, To the Fellows of St. John's, Oct., 1551. 
nolle (nol'e), v. i. [< nolle (prosequi).] To enter 
a nolle prosequi. 
nolleity (no-le'i-ti), n. [< L. nolle, be unwilling 
(see nolition), + -e-ity.] Unwillingness; no- 
lition. Boget. [Rare.] 
nolle prosequi (nol'e pros'e-kwl). [L.: nolle, 
be unwilling; prosequi, follow after, prosecute: 
see nolition and prosequi.] In law: (a) in civil 
actions, an acknowledgment by the plaintiff 
that he will not further prosecute his suit, as 
to the whole or a part of the cause of action, 
or against some or one of several defendants 
(Bingham); (b) in criminal cases, a declara- 
tion of record from the legal representative of 
the government that he will no further prose- 
cute the particular indictment or some desig- 
nomadise 
nated part thereof (Bishop). Abbreviated nol. 
pi-os. 
nolo contenders (no'lo kon-ten'de-re). [L.: mi- 
lo, 1st pers. sing. pres. ind'.' of noHc,"be unwilling; 
contenders, contend: see contend.] In criminul 
law, a plea equivalent, as against the prosecu- 
tion, to that of ''guilty." It submits to the 
punishment, but does not admit the facts al- 
leged. 
nolpet, '' [ME. ; origin obscure.] I. trans. 
To strike. 
And another, anon, he nolpit to ground, 
Shent of tho shalkes, shudrit horn Itwyn. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6580. 
II. intrans. To strike. 
nolpet, " [ME., < nolpe, v.] A blow. 
Eneas also auntrid to sle 
Amphymak the fuerse, with a fyne speire; 
And Neron the noble with a nolpe alse. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 14037. 
nol. pros. An abbreviation of nolle prosequi. 
nolt (nolt), n. A variant of nout, neat 1 . 
noltherd (nolt'herd), n. [A var. of noittherd, 
neatherd.] A neatherd. [Prov. Eng.] 
The Noltfierds attend to the cows on the Town Moors, on 
which the freemen and their widows have a right of de- 
pasturing cattle. Xunicip. Corp. Report (1835), p. 1646. 
nom 1 !. A preterit of nim 1 . 
nom 2 (noil), n. [F., < L. nomen, a name: see 
nomen.] Name Nom de guerre. [F., lit. a war- 
name.] (at) Formerly, in France, a name taken by a sol- 
dierou entering the service. Hence (b) A fictitious name 
temporarily assumed for any purpose. 
Jane Clifford was her name, as books aver ; 
Fair Rosamond was but her nom de guerre. 
Dryden, Epil. to Henry II., 1. 6. 
Nom de plume. [F. , lit. a pen-name ; a phrase invented 
in England, in imitation of nom de guerre, and not used in 
France.] A pseudonym used by a writer instead of his 
real name ; a signature assumed by an author. 
nom. An abbreviation of nominative. 
noma (no'ma), . ; pi. nomte (-me). [NL.,<Gr. 
vofi^t, a spreading, a corroding sore : see name 6 .] 
In med., a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth 
or of the pudendal labia in children ; when af- 
fecting the mouth, called also gangrenous sto- 
matitis, or cancrum oris. Also name. 
nomad (nom'ad), a. and n. [Also nomade; = 
G. Dan. nomade = Sw. nomad = F. nomade = 
Sp. nomada, nomade = Pg. It. nomade, < L. no- 
mas (nomad-), < Gr. vouag (vo/iad-), roaming or 
roving (like herds of cattle), grazing, feeding, 
< vtfKiv, pasture, drive to pasture, distribute: 
see nome*.] I. a. Wandering: same as no- 
madic. 
II. n. A wanderer; specifically, one of a wan- 
dering tribe ; one of a pastoral tribe of people 
who have no fixed place of abode, but move 
about from place to place according to the state 
of the pasturage; hence, a member of any rov- 
ing race. 
The Numidian nomades, so named of chauuging their 
pasture, who carrie their cottages or sheddes (and those 
are all theirdwelling houses) about with them upon waines. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, v. 3. 
Nomada (nom'a-da), n. [NL. (Fabricius, 1775), 
< Gr. vofiaf (yofiaS-}, nomad : see nomad.] A ge- 
nus of naked bees or cuckoo-bees of the family 
Apidce and the subfamily Cuculince. it is of large 
extent, over 70 species occurring in North America alone. 
The body is of graceful form, almost entirely naked, and 
oniamented with pale markings ; the abdomen is subses- 
sile ; the legs are sparsely pubescent, if at all so ; the scu- 
tellum is often obtusely bituberculate, but has no lateral 
teeth ; and the stigma is well developed and lanceolate. 
The female places her eggs in the cells of Andrena. 
nomade (nom'ad), a. and n. Same as nomad. 
nomadian (no-ma'di-an), . [< nomad + -ian.] 
A nomad, fforth Brit. Rev. [Rare.] 
nomadic (no-mad'ik), a. [< Gr. w/zaAxiif, be- 
longing to pasturage or to the life of a herds- 
man, pastoral, < voft&f (vouaS-), nomad : see nom- 
ad.] 1. Wandering; roving; leading the life 
of a nomad: specifically applied to pastoral 
tribes that have no fixed abode, but wander 
about from place to place according to the state 
of the pasturage. 
The Nomadic races, who wander with their herds and 
flocks over vast plains. 
W. B. Carpenter, Prin. of Physiol. (1853), 1040. 
2. Figuratively, wandering; changeable; un- 
settled. 
The American is nomadic in religion, in ideas, in morals, 
and leaves his faith and opinions with as much indifference 
as the house in which he was born. 
Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 97. 
nomadically (no-mad 'i-kal-i), ailr. [X nomndif 
+ -al + -?(/ 2 .] In a nomadic manner: as, to 
live nomadically. 
nomadise, <'. i. See nomadise. 
