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The entrails of a deer; the umbles. [Written also numbles.] Johnson.

A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

of Nim. Chaucer.

One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names.

A female nomenclator.

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

A name or term.

Nomic spelling. A. J. Ellis.

aining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson.

The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. Reid.

Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

To convert into a noun. [Obs.]

In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality. Burke.

To mention by name; to name. [Obs.] To nominate them all, it is impossible. Shak.

By name; particularly; namely. [Obs.] Spelman.

The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated. The nomination of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself. Clarendon.

Of or pertaining to the nominative case.