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Name. Nom de guerre (, literally, war name; hence, a fictitious name, or one assumed for a time. -- Nom de plume (, literally, pen name; hence, a name assumed by an author as his or her signature.

See Canker, n., 1.

Roving; nomadic.

See Nomad, n.

A nomad. [R.]

Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly, adv.

The state of being a nomad.

To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage. The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga. W. Tooke.

The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

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.