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To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point. Nodal line, Nodal point, in a vibrating plate or cord, that line or point which remains at rest while the other parts of the body are in a state of vibration.

Knotted. Nodated hyperbola (Geom.), a certain curve of the third order having two branches which cross each other, forming a node.

Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [R.]

One who nods; a drowsy person.

Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.

The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange.

A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange.

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon. Nodical month. See Lunar month, under Month.

Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness. Holland.

Nodose; knotty; knotted. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps.

Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

To clear (tress) from knots. [R.] Blount.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.