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A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

Want of cohesion.

Lack of coincidence.

Not coincident.

Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.…

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.

A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Neglect or failure of communion.

Lack of completion; failure to complete.

Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

Neglecting or refusing to comply.

Not concluding.

To dissent or refuse to concur.

Refusal to concur.

Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.

The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.

ration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.