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The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange.

Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon. Nodical month. See Lunar month, under Month.

Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness. Holland.

Nodose; knotty; knotted. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps.

Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

Same as Nowel.

An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to the understanding. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual. I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not of; nor of. [Obs.]

A noggin.