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The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.

A vernier.

The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.

Nonjuring.

Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.

One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.

Want of limitation; failure to limit.

Not malignant, as a disease.

Not carrying on manufactures.

Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.

One who is not a member.

State of not being a member.

ve, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element.

Not moral nor immoral; having no connection with morals; not in the sphere of morals or ethics; not ethical.

Not natural; unnatural.

A nun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.

Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.