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t, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

The song of Simeon (Luke ii. 29-32), used in the ritual of many churches. It begins with these words in the Vulgate.

A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon. [Written also noonshun.] Hudibras.

One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio. [Obs.] Hoole.

The office of a nuncio. Clarendon.

a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.

A messenger.

eclare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [Obs.] In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it Barrow.

The act of nuncupating. [Obs.]

Oral; not written. Nuncupative will or testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.

Nuncupative; oral.

A nundinal letter.

Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day. Nundinal letter, among the Romans, one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning)…

To buy and sell at fairs or markets. [Obs.]

Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling. [Obs.] Common nundination of pardons. Abp. Bramhall.

The pronunciation of n at the end of words.

A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun. -- Nun"nish*ness, n.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.