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Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.

Sparing none.

See Nonesuch.

Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. Shak.

Nihility; nonexistence.

Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists.

in seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings. [None] to the offering before her should go. Chaucer. Burnt offering, Drink offering, etc. See under Burnt. etc.

the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the third series of unsaturated hydrocarbonsl as, nonone.

Otherwise. "It shall none other be." Chaucer. "If you think other." Shak.

To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon. None of them the feeble overran. Spenser.

y of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. Addison.

ed them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. T. Staveley.

To be equal; to hold comparison. [R.] Few or none could . . . paragon with her. Shelton.

Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart. None but thyself can be thy parallel. Pope.

To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep. There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Is. x. 14.

Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] "Joy or penance he feeleth none." Chaucer.

A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

. Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. "If your doctrine takes place." Berkeley. "But none of these excuses would take place." Spenser. -- To take the place of, to be substituted for.

amilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.

ficial or general notice; publication. King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. 1 Kings xv. 22.