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Having but one brood in a season.

A single unvaried tone or sound.

Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. "Sharpening in mooned horns." "Mooned Ashtaroth." Milton.

One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] Dickens.

Conduct of one who moons. [R.]

A little moon. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.

A species of English granite, used as a building stone.

Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.

One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.

The Vertebrata.

The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid.

A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.

Made in a new form, or lately come into fashion.

Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer (Mil.), a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.

No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any. There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Ps. xiv. 3. Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. Ex. xvi. 26. Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. Milton. No…

Not effective.

Not having elasticity.