Nonresidence noun The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift.

Nonresident adjective Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

Nonresident noun A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction.

Nonresistance noun The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.

Nonresistant adjective Making no resistance.

Nonresistant noun One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.

Nonresisting adjective Not making resistance.

Nonruminant adjective Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal.

Nonsane adjective Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory. Blackstone.

Nonsense noun [ Prefix non- + sense : confer French nonsens .]

1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

2. Trifles; things of no importance.

Nonsense verses , lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.

Syn. -- Folly; silliness; absurdity; trash; balderdash.

Nonsensical adjective Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly , adverb -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness , noun

Nonsensitive adjective Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Nonsexual adjective Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

Nonslaveholding adjective Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State.

Nonsolution noun Failure of solution or explanation.

Nonsolvency noun Inability to pay debts; insolvency.

Nonsolvent adjective Not solvent; insolvent.

Nonsolvent noun An insolvent.

Nonsonant adjective Not sonant. -- noun A nonsonant or nonvocal consonant.

Nonsparing adjective Sparing none.

Nonstriated adjective (Nat. Hist.) Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.

Nonsubmission noun Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.

Nonsubmissive adjective Not submissive.

Nonsuch noun See Nonesuch .

Nonsuit noun (Law) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case.

Nonsuit transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Nonsuited ; present participle & verbal noun Nonsuiting .] (Law) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up. "When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited ." Z. Swift.

Nonsuit adjective Nonsuited. D. A. Tyng.

Non*sure"ty noun Insecurity. [ Obsolete]

Nontenure noun (Law) A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.

Nonterm noun (Law) A vacation between two terms of a court.

Nontoxic adjective Not toxic.

Nontronite noun [ So called because found in the arrondissement of Notron , France.] (Min.) A greenish yellow or green mineral, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron.

Nonuniformist noun One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian .

Nonunion adjective
1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter.

2. Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. -- Non*un"ion*ism noun

Nonunionist noun One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.

Nonusance noun Neglect of using; failure to use. [ R.] Sir T. Browne.

Nonuser
1. A not using; failure to use.

An office may be forfeited by misuser or nonuser .

Blackstone.

2. (Law) Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right. Kent.

Nonvascular adjective (Anat.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

Nonvernacular adjective Not vernacular.

A nonvernacular expression.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Nonvocal adjective Not vocal; destitute of tone. -- noun A nonvocal consonant.

Nonyl noun [ Non ane + - yl .] (Chemistry) The hydrocarbon radical, C ₉ H ₁₉ , derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.

Nonylene noun [ Non ane + eth ylene .] (Chemistry) Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons C ₉ H ₁₈ of the ethylene series.

Nonylenic adjective (Chemistry) Of, pertaining to, related to, or designating, nonylene or its compounds; as, nonylenic acid.

Nonylic adjective (Chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.

Noodle noun [ Confer Noddle , Noddy .] A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny. [ Low]

The chuckling grin of noodles .

Sydney Smith.

Noodle noun [ German nudel vermicelli.] A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

Nook noun [ Middle English nok ; confer Gael. & Ir. niuc .] A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.

How couldst thou find this dark, sequestered nook ?

Milton.

Nook-shotten adjective Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.]

That nook-shotten isle of Albion.

Shak.

Noölogical adjective Of or pertaining to noölogy.

Noölogist noun One versed in noölogy.

Noölogy noun [ Greek ..., ..., the mind + -logy .] The science of intellectual phenomena.