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ignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart. Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belong To nobler poets for a nobler song. Dryden.

Having a noble mind; honorable; magnanimous. -- No"ble-mind`ed*ness, n.

One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness. His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Jer. Taylor.

Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson.

A female of noble rank; a peeress.

The body of nobles; the nobility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade. An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man. Guardian.

To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." Trench. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope.

The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. Bacon.

One who ennobles.

A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.

Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble. I was not ignoble of descent. Shak. Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. Shak.

State or quality of being ignoble.

Ignoble. Shak.

antity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

tuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.

e the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. Do the strings answer to thy noble hand Dryden.