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The European gray gurnard (Trigla gurnardus). [Written also knoud.]

Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediæval origin, sung in honor of the Nativity of our Lord; a Christmas carol. Grove.

The marriage knot. [Obs.] Crashaw.

Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.

Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere. [Archaic] "Thy servant went nowhither." 2 Kings v. 25.

Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways. Others whose case is nowise different. Earle.

Neat cattle.

See Nouthe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift.

To annoy; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Piers Plowman. All that noyed his heavy spright. Spenser.

A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.

, Annoyance. [Obs.] Spenser.

A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.

An annoyer. [Obs.] Tusser.

Full of annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Noils.

Annoying; disagreeable. [Obs.] Watch the noyous night, and wait for Spenser.

Nozzle. [Obs.]

The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.