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Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.

notes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble. -- Positive electricity (Elec), the kind of electricity which is developed when glass is rubbed with silk, or which appears at that pole of a voltaic battery attached to the plate that is not attacked by the exciting liqui…

is shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. Chaucer.

Place; position; situation. [Obs.] Milton. His [man's] noblest posture and station in this world. Sir M. Hale.

An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company. Odmar, of all this presence does contain, Give her your wreath whom you esteem most fair. Dryden.

ne's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. Goldsmith. A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors wi…

ut necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift. "Noble prodigals of life." Trench.

is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe.

To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee. Shak.

tic. Our people quarrel with obedience. Shak. But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed. Shak.

clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it South.

ty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak.

f an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul Addison.

The charge or account made by a host at an inn. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. Addison.

Report of nobleness or exploits; praise. This famous duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown. Shak.

g; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. Shak.

ense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction. [Obs.] Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers. Sir T. Browne.

efraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.

haic] This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn. Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.

n a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. "He was not right fat". Chaucer. For which I should be right sorry. Tyndale. [I] return those duties back as are right fit. Shak.