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An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

To innovate. [Obs.]

Novelty; new things. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South.

The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.

Of or pertaining to the number nine.

Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary. [R.] The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman.

Done or recurring every ninth year.

Done or recurring every ninth year.

ne unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro. I am young; a novice in the trade. Dryden.

The state of being a novice; novitiate.

Of or pertaining to the new moon. [R.]

The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.

Newly invented; recent; new. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Newness; novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five. [Obs.] Shak.

At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now. I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.

In these days; at the present time. What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays Garrick.

In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise. But Ireland will noways allow that name unto it. Fuller.

See Nouch. [Obs.] Chaucer.