Webster's Dictionary, 1913

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No-man's land
1. (Nautical) A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.

2. Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.

That no-man's land of twilight.
W. Black.

Nom noun [ French See Noun .] Name.

Noma noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., lit., a feeding. See Name .] (Medicine) See Canker , noun , 1.

Nomad noun [ Latin nomas , - adis , Greek ..., ..., pasturing, roaming without fixed home, from ... a pasture, allotted abode, from ... to distribute, allot, drive to pasture; probably akin to Anglo-Saxon niman to take, and English nimble : confer French nomade . Confer Astronomy , Economy , Nimble , Nemesis , Numb , Number .] One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

Nomad adjective Roving; nomadic.

Nomade noun [ French] See Nomad , noun

Nomadian noun A nomad. [ R.]

Nomadic adjective [ Greek .... See Nomad .] Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly adverb

Nomadism noun The state of being a nomad.

Nomadize intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Nomadized ; present participle & verbal noun Nomadizing .] To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.

The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga.
W. Tooke.

Nomancy noun [ Confer French nomancie , nomance , abbrev. from onomancie . See Onomancy .] The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

Nomarch noun [ Greek ... a district + -arch .] The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

Nomarchy noun ; plural Nomarchies A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

Nombles noun plural [ French nombles , from Latin lumbulus , dim. of lumbus a loin. Confer Numbles , Umbles , Humbles .] The entrails of a deer; the umbles. [ Written also numbles .] Johnson.

Nombril noun [ French nombril , for Old French lombril , i. e., ombril , with the article, a dim. from Latin umbilicus the navel. See Navel .] (Her.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point . See Escutcheon .

Nome noun [ Greek ..., from ... to deal out, distribute.]


1. A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

2. Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [ Obsolete]

Nome noun [ Confer Binomial .] (Alg.) [ Obsolete] See Term .

Nome, Nomen obsolete past participle of Nim . Chaucer.

Nomenclator noun [ Latin , from nomen name + calare to call. See Name , and Calendar .]
1. One who calls persons or things by their names.

» In Rome, candidates for office were attended each by a nomenclator , who informed the candidate of the names of the persons whom they met and whose votes it was desirable to solicit.

2. One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names.

Nomenclatress noun A female nomenclator.

Nomenclatural adjective Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

Nomenclature noun [ Latin nomenclatura : confer French nomenclature . See Nomenclator .]
1. A name. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

2. A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary. [ R.]

3. The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

Nomial noun [ Confer Binomial .] (Alg.) A name or term.

Nomic adjective [ Greek ..., from ... a law, custom.] Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods. H Sweet. -- noun Nomic spelling. A. J. Ellis.

Nominal adjective [ Latin nominalis , from nomen , nominis , name. See Name .]
1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson.

2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. " Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.

Nominal noun
1. A nominalist. [ Obsolete] Camden.

2. (Gram.) A verb formed from a noun.

3. A name; an appellation.

A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale.
Moore (Encyc. of Music. )

Nominalism noun The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

Nominalist noun (Metaph.) One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. Reid.

Nominalistic adjective Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

Nominalize transitive verb To convert into a noun. [ Obsolete]

Nominally adverb In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality. Burke.

Nominate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Nominated ; present participle & verbal noun Nominating .] [ Latin nominatus , past participle of nominare to nominate, from nomen name. See Name .]


1. To mention by name; to name. [ Obsolete]

To nominate them all, it is impossible.
Shak.

2. To call; to entitle; to denominate. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

3. To set down in express terms; to state. [ Obsolete]

Is it so noiminated in the bond?
Shak.

4. To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.

Nominately adverb By name; particularly; namely. [ Obsolete] Spelman.

Nomination noun [ Latin nominatio : confer French nomination .]


1. The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.

The nomination of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself.
Clarendon.

2. The denomination, or name. [ Obsolete] Bp. Pearson.

Nominatival adjective (Gram.) Of or pertaining to the nominative case.

Nominative adjective [ Latin nominativus belonging to a name, nominative.] (Gram.) Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. -- noun The nominative case.

Nominatively adverb In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.

Nominator noun [ Latin ] One who nominates.

Nominee noun [ See Nominate , and -ee .] A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.

Nominor noun [ See Nominate , and -or .] A nominator. [ Obsolete] Bentham.

Nomocracy noun [ Greek ... law + -cracy , as in demo cracy .] Government in accordance with a system of law. Milman.

Nomography noun [ Greek ...; ... law + ... to write.] A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.

Nomology noun [ Greek ... law + - logy .]


1. The science of law; legislation.

2. The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology. Sir W. Hamilton.

Nomopelmous adjective [ Greek ... law, custom + ... sole of the foot.] (Zoology) Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.

Nomothete noun [ Greek ...; ... + ... to assign: confer French nomothète .] A lawgiver. [ R.]

Nomothetic, Nomothetical adjective [ Greek ....] Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power. [ R.] Bp. Barlow.

Non adjective No; not. See No , adjective Chaucer.

Non assumpsit [ Latin , he did not undertake.] (Law) The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.

Non compos Non com"pos men"tis [ Latin ] Not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; hence, also, as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or from accident.

Non- [ Latin non , OL. noenu , noenum , from neoenum , lit., not one. See None .] A prefix used in the sense of not ; un -; in - ; as in non attention, or non -attention, non conformity, non metallic, non suit.

» The prefix non- may be joined to the leading word by means of a hyphen, or, in most cases, the hyphen may be dispensed with. The list of words having the prefix non- could easily be lengthened.