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Not making resistance.

Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal.

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

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

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

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

Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

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

Failure of solution or explanation.

Inability to pay debts; insolvency.

Not solvent; insolvent.

Not sonant. -- n.

Sparing none.

Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.

Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.

Not submissive.

See Nonesuch.

n 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.

Insecurity. [Obs.]

A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.