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Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter.

Not having existence.

A failure of exportation; a not exporting of commodities.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

Neglect or failure to fulfill.

According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.

Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

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

A vernier.

The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.

Nonjuring.

Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.

One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.

Want of limitation; failure to limit.

Not malignant, as a disease.