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Not in. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law] An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. Addison.

Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles. Nine men's morris. See Morris. -- Nine points circle (Geom.), a circle so related to any given triangle as to pass through the three points in which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the sides.…

A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, or Spiræa, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.

The lamprey.

The northern butcher bird.

Nine times repeated.

A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.

An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.

A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty. -- n.

Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Next in order after the eighty-ninth.

Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.

A fool; a simpleton. Shak.

A simpleton; a silly person. [Colloq.] Addison.

Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

In the ninth place.

The magpie. [Prov. Eng.]