Nowel 
niitalin, of one's birth, < imtiix, born : see 
Christmas: a word often used us a burden or 
nn exclamation in Christinas songs; hence, a 
Christmas carol, properly one written poly- 
phonically. 
Janus sit by the fyr with double herd. 
And ilrynketh of his bugle horn the wyn ; 
lllforn hyni stunt brawn of the tusked swyn. 
And Xowel crieth every lusty man. 
Chaucer, Kranklln's Tale, 1. S27. 
The first X 1 1 mil the Angel did say 
Was to three poor shepherds in the fields as they lay ; 
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep 
In a cold winter's night that was so deep. 
.\i,ir,'ll. Xnmll, Notvell, Koii-fll, 
Born is the King of Israel. 
Quoted in JV. and <J., 7th ser., III. 2fll. 
We have no English Soe'lt like those of Eustache du 
Caurroy. (irnae's Mel. Music, II. 408. 
nowel- (nou'el or no'el), n. [Var. of newell.] 
If. An obsolete form of tifi/'e/ 1 . 2. lufniunl- 
imj, the inner part of the mold for castings of 
large hollow articles, such as tanks, cisterns, 
and steam-engine cylinders of large size. It 
answers to the core of smaller castings. 
nowhere (no'hwar), fitlr. [< ME. no where, no 
irlnn; nn war, no hwer, < AS. naliw&r, < na, no, 
+ hiceer, where: see no 1 and where.] Not in 
any situation or state; in no place; not any- 
where ; by extension, at no time. 
They holde of the Venycyans, and I trowe they haue noo 
where so stronge a place. 
Sir Jt. Quylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 11. 
True pleasure and perfect freedom are nowhere to be 
found but in the practice of virtue. Tilloteon. 
Though the art of alphabetic writing was known in the 
east in the time of the Trojan war, it is nowhere mentioned 
by Homer, who is so exact and full in describing all the 
arts he knew. Ames, Works, II. 4Sti. 
Such idea or presentation of sense is nowhere, for it does 
not exist in any sense of the word whatever. 
0. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 546. 
nowhither (no'hwiTH'er), adv. [< ME. no kwi- 
der, nou hwider,< AS. na, no, + hwider, whither.] 
Not any whither; in no direction, or to no 
place; nowhere. 
Thy servant went no whither. 2 Ki. v. 26. 
The turn which leads nowhither. De Quincey. 
nowise (no'wiz), arfr. [By ellipsis from in nn 
irise.] In no way, manner, or degree; in no 
respect. 
He will have fifty deviations from a straight line to make 
with this or that party, as he goes along, which he can no- 
leise avoid. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, i. 14. 
In whom too was the eye that saw, not dim, 
The natural force to do the thing he saw, 
Nowise abated. Browning, Ring and Book, II. 324. 
nowlt, An obsolete form of noil. 
nowt. H. See nont. 
nowthet, adv. See nouthe. 
nowy (nou'i), a. [< OF. none (< L. nodatiis), 
knotted, < nou, a knot: see worfe.] In her., 
having a projection or small convex curvature 
near the middle : said of a heraldic line, or of 
an ordinary or subordiuary bounded by such a 
line or lines Cross nowy. See cro*i. Cross nowy 
quadrant. See ero*i. Fesse nowy. Same as fesse 
bnttony (which see, under fesse). 
nowyed (nou'id), a. [Irreg. < nowy + -ed' 2 . Cf. 
nowed."] In her., having a small convex projec- 
tion, but elsewhere than in the middle Cross 
nowyed. See crossi. 
noxal (nok'sal), a. [= F. noxal, < L. noxtilix, 
relating to injury, < nojca, harm, injury: see 
iin.riiius.] In Rom. law, relating to wrongful in- 
jury or nuisance. 
The vendor at the same time and in the body of the 
same stipulation guaranteed that the sheep or cattle he 
was selling were healthy and of a healthy stock and free 
from faults, and that the latter had not done any mischief 
for which their owner could be held liable in a noxal ac- 
tion. Encyc. Brit., XX. 701. 
Noxal action, an action to recover damages to compen- 
sate the plaintiff for injury done to him by the defendant, 
or more usually by the property or the slave or other sub- 
ordinate of the defendant. Noxal surrender, (a) The 
transfer to the injured person of the slave or the thing 
by which the injury was done as compensation therefor. 
Hence (6) The right, which came to be acknowledged, of 
making such a surrender in full satisfaction, and the con- 
sequent limitation of the right to recover damages done 
by a slave to the amount of the value of the slave, 
noxiallet, a. [ME., erroneously for "noctialle 
("noctial), cf. ML. iiortidHiiK, of the night, < L. 
.( (noct-) = E. night: see night.] Nightly; 
nocturnal. 
Whan reste and slepe y shulde haue noxialle, 
As requereth bothe nature and kynde, 
Than trobled are my wittes alle. 
Political Poents, etc. (ed. Furnivull), p. 43. 
noxious (nok'shus), a. [= Pg. noxio. < L. >io.ri- 
iiH, hurtful, injurious, < nnrn, hurt, injury, for 
"noc.ia, < nocere, hurt, injure: see nocetit. Cf. 
4033 
nbnoxiou*.'] 1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; per- 
nicious: as, mi.' ii>iin vapors; iin.i'inim animals. 
Melancholy Is a black nmriowt Humour, and much an- 
noys the whole inward Man. llmrell. Letters, I. vi. 48. 
Kill iiraimu creatures, where 'tis sin to save; 
Tills only Just prerogative we have. 
Uryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., xv. 
nubbin 
Abandone it or encheue It, if it be nnyfull. 
>'/ T. Klyol, The (lovernour, 1. 24. 
noyingt, . [< M ' '"'.'/"/, ".'/''"</, verbal n. of 
any, r.] Annoyance ; harm ; hurt. 
And who so euer Iwryth of the same erthe vppon hym 
U saffely assuryd frome noyeng of any bestc. 
Sir R. Uuyl/urde, Pylgrymage, p. 64. 
In the physical sciences authority has greatly lost its noyinglyt, adr, [ME., < noying, ppr. of tunj. r., 
noxious Influence. Jemns, Pol. Ecou., p. 299. + _/^2.] In an annoying manner ; aunoyingly. 
The strong smell of sulphur, and a choking sensation of j h nolwht trespassed ageyn noon of these IIJ., God 
the lungs, Indicated the presence of noxunu gases, knowing, and yet I am foule and nayiyngly (read noyyng- 
txience, Alii. 181. j j ye][ed wi(h ,, to my gret unease . 
2f. Guilty; criminal. Paston Letters, I. 2<t. 
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law are justly noylet, . See unit. 
punished by them to whom the execution of the law is n ovmentt ". [By apheresis from annoyment.] 
eon.mitted. Abp. Bramhall, Answer to Hobbes. Annoyance. JlrnotJ, Chron., p. 211. 
-. Noxious, Pernicious, Aoumne, pestiferous, pestl- noyo ^ (noi ' u9)j o . [< ME. noyoug, noyes; by 
apheresis from annoyotts.] Causing annoy- 
ance; annoying; troublesome; grievous. 
Thou art noyous for to carye. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 574. 
Ne man nor beast may rest, or take repast 
For their sharpe wounds and noymis injuries. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 16. 
noysauncet, 
nance. 
ach: 
A Middle English form of nui- 
Same as tioyiugly. 
Formerly i 
len., r _ _ 
noxious is actively and energeticallyliarmf ul. That which 
Is pernicious is as actively destructive. Noisome and nox- 
ious were once essentially the same (see Job xxxi. 40, mar- 
gin; Ps. xci. 3; Kzek. xiv. 21), but noisotne now suggests 
primarily foulness of odor, with a secondary noxiousness 
to health. Unwholesome vapors that do not offend the 
sense of smell would now hardly be called noisome. 
Winds from all quarters agitate the air, 
And fit the limpid element for use. 
Else noxious. Coirper, Task, i. 
Little by little he had indulged in this pernicious habit, 
until he had become a confirmed opium eater and smoker. 
0' Donovan, Merv, xxiii. .- . , -, -.. ml _ 
.. dim. of Mow 1 . Cf.MMIW>j l.Thenose. [Prov. 
Before his eyes appe^d'^f *, dark ; Eng.]- 2. The projecting spout or ventage of 
A lazar-house it seem'd. Milton, P. L, xi. 478. something; a terminal pipe or part of a pipe : 
noxiously (nok'shus-li), adv. In a noxious man- as, the nozle of a bellows. 3. Same as socket, 
ner; hurtfully; perniciously. as of a candlestick.- Nozle of a steam : englne. (a) 
noxiousness (nok'shus-nes), n. The quality or ^'iJ^'^fJe"*^'"^ 
state of being noxious or hurtful ; hannf ulness ; {J,j^ e eeil the cy | lm ier and the boiler and condenser in low- 
perniciousness : as, the noxiousness of foul air. pressure or condensing engines, and between the cylin- 
The unlawfulness of their intermeddling in secular af- der and boiler and atmosphere in high-pressure engines 
fairs and using civil power, and the noxiousness of their nozle-block (noz'1-blok), n. A block in which 
sitting as members in the lords' house, and Judges in that t wo bellows-nozles unite. E. H. Knight. 
high court, etc. Wood, Athena) Oxon., II. 48. noz j[ e . nlou th (noz'l-mouth), n. The aperture 
noyt (noi), v. t. [< ME. noyen, noien, nuyen ; by or opening of a nozle ; a twyer in a forge or 
apheresis from annoy, v.] To annoy ; trouble ; melting-furnace, 
vex; afflict; hurt; damage. nozle-plate (noz'1-plat), n. In a steam-engine, 
I am noyed of newe, 
That blithe may I nojt be. 
York Plans, p. 147 
a seat for a slide-valve. E. H. Knight. 
nozzle 1 , . See nozle. 
By mean whereof the people and countre was sore vexed e /i. _' 
An obsolete form of nuzzle. 
N. S. An abbreviation (a) of -ZVctc Style, and (ft) 
of New Series. 
nschlegO, . [African.] A kind of ape resem- 
bling the chimpanzee, by some considered a 
distinct species, but probably a mere variety 
of the latter. 
nsunnu, [Native name.] A kind of kob or 
water-antelope of Africa, Kobus leucolis. See 
and'noyed vnder v. kynges." Fabyan, Chron., I. xxvi. 
All that noyd his heavie spright 
Well searcht, eftsoones he gan apply relief 
Of salves and med'clncs. Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 24. 
In Denmarke were full noble conquerours 
In time past, full worthy warriours : 
Which when they had their marchfcnts destroyed, 
To pouerty they fell, thus were they noyed. 
HaMuyt'i Voyaijes, I. 195. 
, nwy, newe, nye ; 
That which an- 
noys' or vexes; trouble ;" affliction ; vexation. 
That myne angwisshe and my mye* 
Are nere at an ende. York Plays, p. 24.1. 
Now God in nwy to Noe con speke, 
Wylde wrakful wordej in his wylle greued. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 301. 
Nor fruitlesse breed of lambes procures my noy. 
Lodge, Forbonius and Prisceria. (Nares.) 
noyade (nwo-yiid'), . [F., < noyer, OF. neier, 
nier = Pr. negar, < ML. necare, drown, a par- 
ticular use of'L. necare, kill.] The act of put- 
ting to death by drowning; specifically, a mode 
of executing persons during the reign of terror 
in France, practised by th revolutionary agent 
Carrier at Nantes toward the close of 1793 and 
the beginning of 1794. The prisoners, having been 
bound, were embarked in a vessel with a movable bottom, 
which was suddenly opened when the vessel reached the 
middle of the Loire, thus precipitating the condemned 
persons into the water. 
That unnatural orgy which leaves human noyades and 
fusillades far behind in ingrained ferocity. 
O. Allen, Colin Clout's Calendar, p. 159. 
noyancet(noi'ans),n. [Also noiance; by aphere- 
sis from annoyance.'] Annoyance; trouble. 
The single and peculiar life is bound . . . 
To keep Itself from noyance. 
Shot., Hamlet, UL S. 18. j. y n entanglement . a knot; a knub.-3. 
noyau (nwo-yo'), . [F., a kernel, nucleus: see Point; pith; gist. 
ftMMP.j A cordial made by redistilling spirit in Tt)e nu6 of the Brtlcle JB ln tm , com .i u(llll(t remarks, 
which have been macerated orange-peel and s. Baulet, in Men-tarn, I. 317. 
the kernels of fruits, such as peaches and apri- 
cots, the product of distillation being sweet- 
ened and diluted. 
noyert, . [< noy + -cr 1 ; or by apheresis from 
niinoyir."] An annoyer; an injurer. 
The north is a noiier to grass of all suites. 
The east a destroyer to herb and all fruits. 
Turner, Properties of Winds. 
noyfult . [< </ + -/W.] Annoying; hurt- nubbin (nub'in),H. [For ,,</, dun of 6.] 
uyyiuiT, A small or imperfect ear of maize. [Colloq., 
U S 1 
Thus do ye recken ; but I fcare ye come of clerus, 
A very no; i full worme, as Aristotle sheweth us. Little nubbint [of early com], with not more than a dozen 
Bale, Kynge Johan, p. 86. (Halliteell.) grains to the ear. Mn. Terhune. The Ridden Path. 
N. T. An abbreviation of New 
nut, aflr. An early Middle English form of HOIC. 
nuance (nti-ons'), n. [F., shading, shade, < 
niter, shade, < nue, a cloud, < L. nubex, a cloud.] 
1. Any one of the different gradations by 
which a color passes from its lightest to its 
darkest shade ; a shade of difference or varia- 
tion in a color. 2. A delicate degree of dif- 
ference in anything, as perceived by any of the 
senses or by the intellect : as, nuances of sound 
or of expression. 
He has the enviable gift of expressing his exact thoughts 
even to the finest nuance, and always in a manner that 
charms a critical reader. Westminster fiev., CXXV. 302. 
Both excel In the fine nuances of social distinction. 
Contemporary Kef., L. 300. 
3. Ill music: (a) A shading or coloring of a 
phrase or passage by variations either of tempo 
or of force. Such effects are often indicated by various 
arbitrary marks or by Italian or other terms, called marks 
of expression, but the more delicate are left to the taste 
and skill of the performer. The treatment of subtle nu- 
ances is the test of executive and artistic power, (ft) A 
florid vocal passage; fioritura. [An unwar- 
ranted use.] 
nub (nub), H. [A simplified spelling of knub. 
var. of knob.] 1. A knob; a protuberance. 
[Colloq.] 2. In cotton- and wool-carding, a 
(nub), r. t. ; prot. and pp. nitbbcd, ppr. nub- 
bing. [For *knub, var. of knob, < knub, nub, n.] 
1. To push. 2. To beckon. Halliwelt. [Prov. 
Erig.] 3. To hang (Daries); nab. [Thieves' 
slang.] 
All the comfort I shall have when you are nuNted is that 
I gave you good advice. Fielding, Jonathan Wild, iv. 2. 
