noon-mark 
(ll o'pa-lin), . 
7 +~-'i2.] A coal-tar color, a mixture 
of eosin with dinitronaphthol, used in dyeing. 
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AS. oHe(', an afternoon meal, < nopalry nopa lery (no'pal-ri, -e-ri), n.; pi. no- To rumor; spread by report. [Southern U. S.] 
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insects. 
plants. 
wope, "ope being a var. of olpl.] The bull- 
finch, Pyrrhula vulgaris. See a!j). [Prov. 
Eng.] 
The Red-sparrow, the JVope, the Red-breast, and the Wren. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xiii. 74. 
(non'miirk), n. A mark so made 
floor of a farm-house or barn) that 
the sun will indicate by it the time of noon, 
noonmeatt (non'met), . [< ME. iionemete, 
nunmete, < AS. 
non, noon v 
noon 1 and meat.'] A meal at noon ; a luncheon 
noonshunt, See nuncheon. 
noon-songt (non'song), n. Same as nones 2 , 3. 
noonstead (non'sted), n. [< noon 1 + stead.] 
The station of the sun at noon. 
Whilst the main tree, still found 
Upright and sound, 
By this sun's noonsted 's made 
So great, his body now alone projects the shade. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, xciv. 
noontide (non'tid), . and a. [< ME. nontid, < no-popery (no-po'per-i), a. 
AS. nontid (= MHG. noneeit), the ninth hour, < 
non, noon (the ninth hour). + tid, tide.] I. n. 
1. The time of noon; midday. 2. The time 
of culmination; the greatest height or depth: 
as, the noontide of prosperity. 3. Same as 
noon-flower. 
II. a. Pertaining to noon ; meridional. 
His look 
Drew audience and attention still as night 
Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake. 
Milton, P. L., ii. 309. 
Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, 
Murmured like a noontide bee. 
Shelley, To Night. 
noops (nops), n. [Origin obscure.] The cloud- 
berry, Rubus Chamamorus. [Prov. Eng.] 
nooryt, n. See nurry. 
noose (nos), n. [Early mod. E. also nooze; ori- 
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ed. Also culled cochineal fiy. 
norm 
See "Uevadog, Missl-they'rebetterfriendsnoranyChris- 
tian," said Bob. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, iv. 3. 
[< nopal, with ref. to no rate (no 'rat), v. t.; pret. and pp. norated, 
ppr. 'iKiruting. 
The form 
[A back formation, < noration. 
could not arise from orate.] 
of nopals for rearing cochineal- 
Such plantations often contain 50,000 
banter me for a rassel [wrestle], and shure enuff he did. 
Quoted in Tram. Atner. PhUol. Am., XVII. 40. 
noration (no-ra'shon), n. [An erroneous form, 
[Prob. due to an ope, misdivided due to misdivision of an oration.] 1. A speech. 
[Prov. Eng.] 2. Rumor. [Prov. Eng. and 
U.S.] 
Norbertine (nor'ber-tin), . [So called from 
their founder Norbert.] Ecdes., amember of the 
order of Pre-monstrants. See Pre-monstrant. 
Expressing violent nordcaper (nord'ka'per), . The Atlantic right 
cTppositioV to Roman Catholicism: as, a no-po- whale. Also called sletbag and sarde. Sri. 
perycry No-popery riots, in Eng.hwt., an outbreak, Amer., N. S., LIV. 24. 
led by Lord George Gordon, in 1780, ostensibly for the re- Nordenfelt 
peal of the measures which had been passed for the relief 
of Roman Catholics, but actually directed against all Ro- 
man Catholics and their sympathizers. It was attended 
with considerable destruction of life and property in Lon- 
don. Also called the Gordon riots. 
noppet, and . An obsolete form of Mp*. 
noppyt (nop'i), a. An obsolete spelling of 
nopstert (nop'ster), n. [< ME. nopster (= D. 
nopster), < nop, nap 2 , + -ster.] A woman occu- 
pied in shearing or trimming the pile or nap of 
textile fabrics ; hence, later, a person of either 
sex pursuing this occupation. 
machine-gun. See machine-mtn. 
(nor'deu-shel-din), n. [From 
Baron N. A. E. Xordenskiold, a Swedish ex- 
plorer and geologist (born 1832).] A rare bo- 
rate of tin and calcium occurring in rhombo- 
hedral crystals in the zircon-syenite of southern 
Norway. 
nordenskioldite (uor'den-shel-dlt), n. [< Nor- 
densMold (see nordenskioldine) + -ite 2 .~\ A va- 
riety of amphibole or hornblende, near tremo- 
lite in composition: it was found near Lake 
Onega in Russia. 
Nordhausen acid. See add. 
The women by whom this [nipping off the knots on the Norfolk capon, nog, etc. See capon, etc. 
surface of cloth) was done were formerly called nopsters. ty nr f n ]'\ r TaTanH ninp SPO nine 
Wedgwood, Diet Eng. Etymology, under Nap. (Latham.) * OT ne. e< 
The honest Farmer and his Wife 
Had struggled with the Marriage Noose. 
Prior, The Ladle. 
2. A loop formed by or fastened with a run- 
ning knot or slip-knot, as that in a hangman's 
halter, or in a lasso; hence, a snare; a gin. 
Have I professed to tame the pride of ladies, 
And make 'em bear all tests, and am I trick'd now ? 
Caught in mine own noose ? 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, iii. 4. 
Where the hangman does dispose 
To special friends the fatal noose. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ii. 116. 
And looked as if the noose were tied, 
And I the priest who left his side. 
Scott, Rokeby, vi. 17. 
noose (n6s), v. t. ; pret. and pp. noosed, ppr. noos- 
ing. [< noose, n.] 1. To knot; entangle in or 
as in a knot. 
He'll think some other lover's hand, among my tresses 
noosed, 
From the ears where he had placed them my rings of pearl 
unloosed. Loekhart, Zara's Earrings. 
2. To catch or insnare by or as by a noose. 
To noose and entrap us. Government of the Tongue, p. 40. 
3. To furnish with a noose or running knot. 
As we were looking at it, Bradford was suddenly caught 
by the leg in a noosed Rope, made as artificially as ours. 
Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 222. 
4. To decorate with something resembling a 
noose. 
The sleeves of all are noosed and decorated with laces 
and clasps. Athenaeum, No. 3044, p. 303. 
Nootka dog. A large variety of dog domes- 
ticated by the natives of Nootka Sound, Van- 
couver Island, British Columbia. It is chiefly 
remarkable for its long wool-like hair, which when shorn 
off holds together like a fleece, and is made into garments. 
Nootka hummer. A humming-bird, Selaspho- 
rus rufus, originally described from Nootka 
Sound, Vancouver Island, notable as being 
by far the most northerly representative of its 
family. 
noozlet, v. An obsolete form of nuzzle. 
nopt, . An obsolete (the original) form of nap*. 
nopal (no'pal), n. [= F. Sp. Pg. nopal, < Mex. 
nopalli.] One of several cactaceous plants 
which support the cochineal-insect. See coch- 
ineal, Nopalea, and Opuntia. 
He had to contend with very superior numbers, in- 
trenched behind fig trees and hedges of nopals. 
Gayarre, Hist Louisiana, II. 285. 
Nopalea (no-pa'le-a), n. [NL. (Salm-Reiffer- 
scheid-Dyck, 1850),"< Mex. nopalnochotzU.] A 
genus of cacti of the order Cacteoe and the tribe 
Opuntiea', known by the erect petals and long- 
projecting stamens. There are 3 species, natives of 
Mexico and tropical South America. They are fleshy 
shrubs, with flat jointed branches, little scale-like leaves, 
and scarlet flowers. N. cochinill\fera, one of the nopal- 
a clause or sentence, (o) Correlative to neither. 
Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, 
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor 
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able 
to separate us from the love of God. Rom. viii. 38, 39. 
And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. 
SAo*., Lucrece, 1. 280. 
(6) Correlative to another nor. [Obsolete or poetical.] 
Nor voice was heard, nor wight was seene in bowre or hall. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 29. 
I send nor balms nor corsives to your wound. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, xlv. 
Of Size, she is nor short, nor tall, 
And does to Fat incline. Congreve, Doris. 
Nor age, nor business, nor distress, can erase the dear 
image from my imagination. Steele, Tatler, No. 181. 
But nor the genial feast, nor flowing bowl, 
Could charm the cares of Nestor's watchful soul. 
Pope, Iliad, xiv. 1. 
Duty nor lifts her veil nor looks behind. 
Lowell, Parting of the Ways. 
(c) With the omission of neither or nor in the first clause 
or part of the proposition. [Poetical.] 
Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there. 
Dryden, Mneld, vi. 135. 
Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, 
Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail. 
Gray, The Bard. 
(d) Correlative to some other negative. 
Thay suld nocht be abasit to preche, 
Nor for no kynde of fauour fleche. 
Lauder, Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 232. 
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard. 1 Cor. ii. 9. 
Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty? 
Shale., T. N., ii. 3. 94. 
You swore you lov'd me dearly ; 
No few nor little oaths you swore, Aminta. 
Fletcher, Sea Voyage, iv. 2. 
There is none like her, none. 
Nor will be when our summers have deceased. 
Tennyson, Maud, xviii. 
2. And . . . not: not correlative, but merely 
continuative. 
machine of a kind 
used in Spain, Syria, 
Palestine, and other 
countries for raising 
water. It consists of a 
water-wheel with revolv- 
ing buckets or earthen 
pitchers, like the Persian 
wheel, but its modes of 
construction and opera- 
tion are various. These 
machines are generally 
worked by animal-pow- 
er, though in some coun- 
tries they are driven by 
the current of a stream 
acting on floats or pad- 
dles attached to the rim 
of the wheel. Also called 
flush-wheel. 
noricet, ' A Mid- 
(T, floats which receive the force of 
the flowing stream c, and turn the 
wheel as indicated by the arrows ; *, 
buckets pivoted to the side of the 
wheel ; rf, a box or tank for receiving 
the raised water (the water is con- 
die English form Of veyedfromthistanknyapipeorchutc 
(not shown) to the point of delivery) ; 
e, upright attached rigidly to the tank, 
which, acting in conjunction with the 
motion of the wheel, successively emp- 
ties the buckets Into the tank. 
nurse. 
noriet, A Middle 
English variant of 
nurry. 
noriet, ^. t. [ME. norien, < OF. norir, nourish: 
see nourish.'] To nourish. Gesta Bom., p. 215. 
norimono, norimon (nor'i-mo'no, -mon), n. 
[Jap., < nori, ride, + mono, a thing.] A kind of 
palanquin or sedan-chair used in Japan. It is 
suspended from a pole or beam carried by two men, the 
traveler squatting on the floor. The entrance is at the 
side, and not in front as in the sedan. 
norischt, norisht, v. t. Middle English forms of 
nourish. 
norisryet, noristryt, . Middle English forms 
of nursery. 
norite (no'rit), n. [< Nor(way) + -ite%.~\ A rock 
which consists essentially of a mixture of a pla- 
gioclase feldspar with a rhombic pyroxene (en- 
statite, bronzite, hypersthene). See gabbro. 
norituret, An obsolete form of nurture. 
The tale is long, nor have I heard it out. Addison. norland (ndr'land), n. and a. A reduced form 
Fowls clucked and strutted in the stables. . . . Nor of northlitnd. 
was it more retentive of its ancient state within. Dickens. when norland winds pipe down the sea. 
Tennyson, Ballad of Oriana. 
Our noisy norland. 
Swinburne, Four Songs of Four Seasons, i. 
norm (n&nn), n. [= F. norme Sp. Pg. It. 
norma, < L. norma, a carpenters' square, a rule, 
a pattern, a precept. Hence norma], abnormal, 
enormous.] 1. A rule; a pattern; a model; 
an authoritative standard. 
This Church [the Roman] has established its own arti- 
ficial norm, the standard measure of all science. 
Theodore Parker. 
The ambon of S. Sophia was the general norm of all By- 
zantine ambons. J. 31. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 204. 
But to us ... the sentence, composed of subject and 
predicate, with a verb or special predicative word to signify 
Get thee hence, nor come again. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxvi. 
[In this use formerly used with another negative, merely 
cumulative, nor being then equivalent, logically, to and. 
And no man dreads but he that cannot shift, 
Nor none serue God but only tongtide men. 
Gascoigne, Steele Olas (ed. Arber), p. 67. 
" I know not love," quoth he, " nor will not know it." 
Shale., Venus and Adonis, 1. 409.] 
3. Than: after comparatives. Compare or 1 in 
like use. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
Nae sailors mair for their lord coud do 
Nor my young men they did for me. 
The Knight's Ghost (Child's Ballads, I. 212). 
She 's ten times fairer nor the bride, 
And all that 's in your companle. 
Young Beiehan and Susie Pye (Child's Ballads, IV. 7). 
the predication, is established as the norm of expression. 
Whitney, Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 771. 
