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Would not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The head. [Obs.] Shak.

A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

Adverse action of will; unwillingness; -- opposed to Ant: volition. A nolition and a direct enmity against the lust. Jer. Taylor.

The head; the noddle. [Obs.]

Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants.

The state of being unwilling; nolition. [R.]

An abbrev. of Nolle prosequi.

Neat cattle. [Prov. Eng.]

Name. Nom de guerre (, literally, war name; hence, a fictitious name, or one assumed for a time. -- Nom de plume (, literally, pen name; hence, a name assumed by an author as his or her signature.

See Canker, n., 1.

One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

See Nomad, n.

A nomad. [R.]

Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly, adv.

The state of being a nomad.

To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage. The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga. W. Tooke.

The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.