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Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard.

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

a nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc.

, isomeric with nicotine, and obtained by the reduction of certain derivatives of the pyridine group.

A coward; a dastard; -- a term of utmost opprobrium. [Obs.] He is worthy to be called a niding. Howell.

Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.

Not concluding.

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

tion from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More.…

A nundinal letter.

Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day. Nundinal letter, among the Romans, one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning)…

To buy and sell at fairs or markets. [Obs.]

Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling. [Obs.] Common nundination of pardons. Abp. Bramhall.

The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes. There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to Odin.

Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. -- O"din*ist, n.

The cultivation of orchards.

Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.

Capable of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.]

Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.