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erson becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority. The human mind . . . was still in its nonage. Coleridge.

Having the quality of nonage; being a minor; immature. W. Browne.

A person ninety years old.

Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.

A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.

A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.

The dauw.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Onagraceæ or Onagrarieæ), which includes the fuchsia, the willow- herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ().

The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.

An ambling nag. "An easy padnag." Macaulay.

The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

paid for the support of a parson. [Scot.] What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for Sir W. Scott.

ce or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.

Feathery covering; plumage. [Obs.] Holland.

The condition of a peon.

erson; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." Hayward. The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser.

Poundage of cattle. See Pound. [Obs.]

The act of coining anew.

Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.