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or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor. Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass, in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9, 10…

See Premonstrant.

Short for Norfolk Jacket.

A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk.

A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt.

The stone curlew.

One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a liver-and-white or black-and-white color.

A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.

Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks. T. S. Hunt.

Nurse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The cormorant. [Prov. Eng.]

A Japanese covered litter, carried by men. B. Taylor.

A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.

A supposed metal alleged to have been discovered in zircon.

The land in the north; north country. [Chiefly Poetic]

A northener; a person from the north country.

A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard. J. S. Mill.

According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical. Deviations from the normal type. Hallam.

The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy. [R.]