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A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.

The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.

Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.

An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.

t); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed.

Non-germinal.

Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

To origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis. Bastian.

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.

e case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend. Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton. Equation of condition. (Math.) See under Equation. -- On o…

es, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.

the merchant service, same as First mate (above). -- First sergeant (Mil.), the ranking non-commissioned officer in a company; the orderly sergeant. Farrow. -- First watch (Naut.), the watch from eight to twelve at midnight; also, the men on duty during that time. -- First water, the highest quality or purest luste…

The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.

Stable; non-volatile. Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. -- Fixed alkali (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia. -- Fixe…