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The science of intellectual phenomena.

No. See the Note under No. [Obs.]

The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.

Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

A rest at noon; a repast at noon.

See Nunchion. Nares.

The position of the sun at noon. [Obs.] Drayton.

The time of noon; midday.

A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

See lst Not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceæ.

A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

A bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]

introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor. Provide neither…

See Premonstrant.

Short for Norfolk Jacket.

A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk.

A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt.

The stone curlew.

One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a liver-and-white or black-and-white color.