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Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden.

By night; nightly.

ow used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.

An inference which does not follow from the premises.

Not carrying on manufactures.

Not natural; unnatural.

Same as Nocturne.

Nurture. [Obs.] Spenser.

The office of a nuncio. Clarendon.

The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. Milton.

Nutrition; nourishment. [Obs.] Harvey.

To stop or close, as an opening; specif., (Ordnance),

The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening. "Deaf by an outward obturation." Bp. Hall.

An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.

Offer; proposal; overture. [Obs.] More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.

Decoration; ornamentation. [R.] Holinshed.

The artificial cultivation of oysters.