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NON-SOL'VENT, adj. Who cannot pay his debts. 
NON-SOL'VENT, J'. One who is not able to pay his 
debts. 
NON-SOLU'TION, f. Failure of folution.—Athenseus 
inftances enigmatical propofitions, and the forfeitures and 
rewards upon their folution and non-folution. Broome. 
NON-SPA'RING, adj. Mercilels ; all-deltroying: 
Is’t I expofe 
Thofe tender limbs of thine to the event 
Of the non-J'paring war? Shdkefpedre's All's Well. 
NON SUM INFORMA'TUS. A formal anfwer made 
of courfe by an attorney, that he is not inftru&ed or in- 
for?ned to fay any thing material in defence of his client: 
by which he is deemed to leave it undefended, and fo 
judgment pafleth againft his client. 
NON-TEN'URE, f. A plea in bar to a real aftion, by 
faying, that he (the defendant) lioldetli not the land men¬ 
tioned in the plaintiff’s count or declaration, or at lead 
fome part thereof. And our books mention non-tenure 
general and fpecial : general, where one denies ever to 
have been tenant of the land in queflion; and fpecial, 
alleging that he was not tenant on the day whereon the 
writ was purchafed. Jacob's Law Dift. 
NON-TER'M,yl The vacation between term and term ; 
formerly called “ the time or days of the king’s peace.” 
NON-U'SER,A law term; negleft of official duty. 
—An office may be forfeited either for mif-ufer, or non- 
ufer. Blachjione. 
NO'NA, a feaporttown of Dalmatia, the fee of a biffiop, 
fuffragan of Spalatro, anciently called Onona, or Onomim. 
It was once a fplendid city, but is now' a mean place. 
The ruins of Nona, which ought to furnifh abundant ma¬ 
terials to gratify the curiofity of antiquaries, are fo bu¬ 
ried by repeated devaftations to which that unhappy city 
has beenexpofed, that fcarcelyany veftigeof them appears 
above ground. Nothing is to be feen that indicates the 
grandeur of the Roman times; neither are there any re¬ 
mains of barbarous magnificence to put one in mind of 
the ages where the kings of the Croat Slavi had their refi- 
dence. It lies on a fmall ifland, furrounded by a harbour; 
which, in former times was capable of receiving large fliips, 
but is now become a fetid pool, by means of a little muddy 
river that falls into it after a courfe of about fix miles, 
through the rich abandoned fields of that diftridl. The 
ancient inhabitants turned this water into another chan¬ 
nel, and made it run through the valley of Drafnich into 
the fea ; and the remains of the bank raifed by them for 
that purpofe are Hill to be feen. It is twenty-eight 
miles north-weft of Scardona. Lat. 44. 28. N. Ion 15. 35. E. 
NONACES'SIS, f. in antiquity, a Roman coin, in value 
about five (hillings and leven-pence. 
NONA'CRIS, in ancient geography, a town of Arca¬ 
dia, which received its name from a wife of Lycaon. 
There was a mountain of the fame name in the neigh¬ 
bourhood. Evander is fometimes called Nonacrius keros, 
as being an Arcadian by birth ; and Atalanta JSonacria, as 
being a native of that place. 
NO'N^ 5 J et DEC'IM^l,/. Payments anciently made to 
the church by thofe who were tenants of church-farms. 
The nonce were a rent or duty claimed for things belong¬ 
ing to hulbandry, (quite diftinft from the nonagium men¬ 
tioned below ;) the decimce were claimed as tithes. 
NON'AGE,yi [won and age.~\ Minority; time of life 
before legal maturity.—Love knows no nonage, nor the 
mind. Crajhaw. —We have a miftaken apprehenfion of an¬ 
tiquity, calling that fo which in truth is the world’s non¬ 
age. Glanville. —After Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a 
Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were 
in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till thefe 
laft appeared. Dryden. —The term of nonage is different, 
with regard to different things. In matters of inheritance, 
a man is in his nonage till twenty-one years; for marriage, 
only to fourteen. C/iambers. 
Vol. XVII. No. 1166. 
In their tender nonage, while they fpread 
Their fpringing leaves, and lift their infant head, 
Indulge their childhood, and the nurlling fpare. Dryden 
NO'NAGE,/! \nonagium, Lat.J The ninth partofaman’s 
moveable goods, anciently paid in the nature of a mortu¬ 
ary ; being claimed by the clergy upon the death of thofe 
of their pariffi.. At firft this was a third part of the goods, 
and was called terliagium; till, by a bull of Clement VI. 
it was reduced to a ninth. Chambers. 
NON'AGED, adj. not arrived at due maturity ; being 
in nonage: 
Shade not that dial night will blind too foon ; 
My nonag'd day already points to noon ; 
How iimple is my fuit, how fmall my boon ! Quarles. 
The mufe’s love appears 
In nonag'd youth, as in the length of years. 
B> •own's Brit. Pajl. 
NONAGES'IMAL, or Nonagesimal Degree, called 
alfo the Mid-Heaven, is the higheft point, or goth degree, 
of the ecliptic, reckoned from its interfedlion with the 
horizon at any time; and its altitude is equal to the angle 
which the ecliptic makes with the horizon at their inter- 
feftion, or equal to the diftance of the zenith from the pole 
of the ecliptic. It is much ufed in the calculation of folar 
eclipfes. 
NON'AGON, f. A figure having nine fides and angles. 
In a regular nonagon, or that whofe angles and fides are 
all equal, if each fide be 1, its area will be 6.1818242—^of 
the tangent of 70 0 , to the radius 1. 
NONANCOU'RT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Eure : (even miles weft of Dreux, and twelve 
eaft of Verneuil. 
NONAN'T, atowm ofFrance, in the department of the 
Orne: eighteen miles north of Argentan. 
NONANTO'LA, a town of Italy : ten miles north-eaft 
of Modena. 
NONAS'PE, a town of Spain, in Arragon: eighteen 
miles eaft of Alcaniz. 
NONASPHiE'RA, f. in the old aftronomy, the ninth 
fphere, theprimum mobile. 
NONATEL'LA, f. in botany. See Oribasia and 
Psychotria. 
NONCE, f. [the origin of this word is uncertain. 
Skinner imagines it to come from own or once ; or from 
nutz, Germ, need or uje. Junius derives it lefs probably 
from noiance; to do for the nonce being, according to him, 
to do it merely for mij'chief. Johnfon .—Tyrwhitt and Rit- 
fon fuppofe it to be from the Latin pro-nunc; viz. for the 
nunc, i. e. for the now, the occafion ; the Lat. wme being 
corrupted into nonce; and Mr. Tyrwhitt adds, that “ fo 
anon came from the Latin ad-nunc." But anon has a very 
different origin; and Mr. Todd obferves, that the ety¬ 
mology which Serenius gives of nonce feems moft proba¬ 
ble : “ Icel. netina, nenning, will, inclination ; Su. Goth. 
nenna, nennas, to prevail with one’s felf to do a thing, to 
have a mind to do itan etymology to which Dr Jamie- 
fon had alfo inclined before he faw the obfervation of 
Serenius. Our word was formerly written nones or nanes ; 
as nones by R. of Gloucefter and Chaucer, and nanes in 
the old Romance of Ywaine and Gawin. This is in fa¬ 
vour of the northern etymon. Mr. Chalmers, however, 
has fuppofed it to be from the Fr. nonce, a nuncio, the pre¬ 
late whom the pope ufed to (end “ for his fpecial purpofes, 
for the noncenoncier, in the Rom. de la Rofe, for an- 
noncef.~\ Purpofe ; intent; defign. Notnowinuje. —They 
ufed at firft to fume the fiffi in a lioufe built for the nonce. 
Carew. 
When in your motion you are hot. 
And that he calls for drink, I’ll have prepar’d him 
A chalice for the nonce. Shakejpeare's Hamlet. 
NONCEL'LO, a river of Italy, which rifes in the Fri¬ 
uli, and runs into the Livenza with the Meda. 
L 1 NONCOV'ERY, 
