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The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.

A rest at noon; a repast at noon.

The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech. The opening of your glory was like that of light. Dryden.

An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

Opinion. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to the Oscines.

Exceedingly or excessively cunning.

onceited. -- O`ver*ween"ingly, adv. Milton. -- O`ver*ween"ing*ness, n. Here's an overweening rogue. Shak.

See Hæmacyanin.

Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.

An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.

A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.

rdon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God.

A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.

A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.

Florida; -- a nickname.

Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.

To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.

Pinnately veined or nerved.