From his rug the skew'r he takes, The wakeful bird tunes her nocturnal rote. And on the stick ten equal notches makes: Milion. There take my tally of ten thousand pound. I now must change Swift. Milton. 2. It seems to be erroneously used for You that can iune your sounding string so nich, well, Of ladies beauties and of love to tell; Once change your note, and let your lute report The justest grief that ever touch'd the court. Iulier. Thrusts your poor vowel from his notch. Swift. One common note on either lyre did strike, To North, V. a. (from tlie noun.] Po And kuaves and tools we both abhorr'd alike. cut in small hollows. Dryden. He was too hard for him directly: before Co 8. Single sound in musick. rioli, he scotch'd him and notebt him like a car Froni liarmony, from heavenly harmony! bonado. Sbakspeare: This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony, citrin pieces, cancellated and transversely notebed. Thro' all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Drydeno 9. Short lint; snall paper; memorial reear, To him who notibes sticks at Westminster. Pope. gister. He willid me NOTCH WEE'D. (vioich anii weed; artiplex In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them, olida.] An herb called orach. As notes whose faculties inclusive were, Note. (for ne mote.) May not. More than they were in note. Shakspeare, Ne let him then admire, In the body's prison so she lies, But yield his sense to be too biunt and base As through the body's windows she must look, That note without an hound fine footing trace. Her divers powers of sense to exercise, Spenser. By gath'ring notes out of the world's great book. NOTE. 11. s. (nota, Lat. note, Fr.) Dacies. 1. Mark; token : as Bellarmine's notes of 10. Abbreviation ; symbol; musical chathe church. racter. Whosoever appertain to the visible body of Contract it into a narrow compass by swert the church, they have also the notes of external notes and abbreviationis, Baker on Learning: profession whereby the world knoweth what II. A small letter. they are. Hooker. A hollow cane within her hand she brought, 2. Notice; heed. But in the concave had inclos’d a nete. Drzuen. Give order to my servants that they take 12. A written paper. No nce at all of our being absent hence. Slaks. I cannot get over the prejudice of taking some I will bestow some precepts on this virgin little offence at the clergy, for perpetually readWorthy the nste. Sbakspeare. ing their sermons; perhaps my frequent hearing 3. Reputation ; consequence. of foreigners, who never make use of noies, may Divers men of note have been brought into have added to my disgust. Swift. England. Abbot. 13. A paper given in confession of a debt. Andronicus and Junia are of note among the His nate will go further than my bond. drbuth. apostles. Romans. 14. Explanatory annotation. As for metals, authors of good note assure us, The best writers have been perplexed with that even they have been observed to grow. notes, and obscured with illustrations. Felton, Boyle. This put him upon a close application to his 4. Reproach ; stigma. studies. He kept inuch at home, and writ notes The more to aggravate the note, upon Homer and Plautus. Luw. With a foul traycor's name stuff I thy throat. To NOTE, v. a. [noto, Lat. noter, Fr.] Sbakspeare. 1. To observe ; to renark; to heed ; to 5. Account; information; intelligence; attend ; to take notice of. notice. Not used. The fool hath much pined away. No more of that, I have noted it well. Shaksø. If much you note him, The man i'ch' moon's too slow. Shükspears. You shall offend him. Shakspeare. In suits of favour, the first coming ought to Some things may in passing be fitly neteit . take little place; so far frrth consideration may Hammond. be had ot his trust, that if intelligence of the I began to note matter could not otherwise have been had but The stormy Hyades, the rainy goat. Addison. by nim, advantage be not taken of the note, but Wand'ring from clime to clime, observant the party leit to his other means, and in some stray'd, sort recompensed for his discovery. Bacon. Their manners noted, and their states survey'd. 6. Site of being observed. Pope. Small matters come with great commendation, 2. To deliver; to set down. because they are continually in use and in note : Saint Augustin speaking of devout men, notcth whereas the occasion of any great virtue cometh how they daily frequented the church, how atbut on festivals. Bacon. tentive ear they gave unto the lessons and chap7. Tune; voice; harmonick or melodious ters read. Hitler. sound. Note it in a book, that it may be for ever and These are the notes wherewith are drawn from Iswab. the hearts of the multitude so many sighs; with 3. To charge with a crime: with of or these runes their minds are exasperated against for. the lawful guides and governors of their sinuls. Sine veste Dianam, agrecs better with Livia, Hocker. who had the fame of chastity, than with either ever. a a of the Julia's, who were both noted of incon- A most honiely shepherd; a man that fram tinency. Drveer. very nothing is grown into an unspeakable estate. 4. [In musick.] To set down the notes Skat. dcare. of a tune. 3. No difficulty ; no trouble. NoʻTEBOOK, 1. s. (note and book.] A book We are industrious to preserve our bodies in which notes and memorandums are from slavery, but we makā nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts. Ray. set down. 9. A thing of no proportion. Cassius all his faults observ'd; The charge of making the ground, and other. Set in a notebook, learn'd and conn'd hy rore, To cast into my teeth. Shaksfraye. wise, is great, but nothing to the proat. Bacan. NoʻTED. part. adj. (from note.] Remark 10. Trifle; something of no consideration or importance. able; eminent; celebrated. I had rather have one scratch my head i'th' A noted chymist procured a privilege, that sun, none but he should vend a spirit. Boyle. When the alarum w a struck, than idly sit Justinian's law's, if we may believe a noted To hear my nothings monster'd. Sbakspearls author, have not the force of laws in France or Holland. Baker. My dear nothings, take your leave No longer must you me deceive. Crashair. No'TER. 1. s. [from note.) He who takes 'Tis nothing, says the fool; but says the friend, notice. This nothing, Sir, will bring you to your end. NOʻTHING. n. S. [no and thing ; nathing, Dol not see your dropsy belly swell? Drøden, Scottish.] That period includes more than a hundred Negation of being; nonentity; uni sentences that might be writ to express muli plication of notbings, and all the fatiguing pero versal negation : opposed to something. petual business of having no business to do. It is most certain, that there never could be Pope's Letters. nothing. For if there could have been an instant, Narcissus is the glory of his race; wherein there was nothing, then either nothing For who does nothing with a better grace! made something, or someting made itself; and Young. was, and acted, before it was. But if there Nothing has a kind of adverbial signinever could be notbing; then there is, and was, a being of necessity, without any beginning. fication. In no degree; not at all. Grew. Who will make inc a liar, and make my speech We do not create the world from nothing and nothing worth? Job. by nothing; we assert an eternal God to have Auria, nothing dismayed with the greatness of been the efficient cause of it. Bentley. Knoles. This nothing is taken either in a vulgar or philosophical sense; so we say there is nothing in But Adam, with such counsel nothing sway'd. Milien. the cup in a vulgar sense, when we mean there is no liquor in it; but we cannot say there is NoʻTHINGNESS. n. s. [from nothing.) nothing in the cup, in a strict philosophical sense, . Nihility ; nonexistence. while there is air in it. Watts. His art did express 2. Nonexistence. A quintessence even from nothingness, Mighty states characterless are grated From dull privations and lean emptiness. Denne. To dusty nothing Sbakspeare. 2. Nothing; thing of no value. 3. Not any thing; no particular thing. I a nothingness in deed and name, There shall nothing die. Exodus. Did scorn to hurt his forfeit carcase. Hudibras. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe, No'tice. n. s. [notice, Fr. notitia, Lat.) But such a face bas promisa bim sincere. Dryd. 1. Remark; heed ; observation ; regard. Philosoplıy wholly speculative is barren, and The thing to be regarded in taking notice of a produces nothing but vain ideas. Dryden. child's miscarriage is, what root it springs from. Noibing at all was done while any thing re Locke. mained undone. Addison on the War. This is done with little notice: very quick the 4. No other thing. actions of the mind are performed. Lecke. Nothing but a steady resolution brought to How ready is envy to mingle with the notices practice; God's grace used, his cominandiments which we take of other persons ! Watis. obeyed; and his pardon begged; netbing but this 2. Information ; intelligence given or rewill incle you to God's acceptance. Wake, ceived. I have given him notice, that the duke of they are, by those who pretend to instruct, otherwise used, they conceal ideed something; NOTIFICA’TION. n. s. [notification, Fr, Cornwal and his duchess will be here. Shaksp. but that which they conceal, is ncibing but the ignorance, crror, or sophistry of the talker, for from notify:] Act of making known ; there is, in truth, nothing eise under them. representation by marks or symbols. Locke. Four or five torches elevated or depressed out .5. No quantiły or degree. of their order, either in breadth or longways, The report which the troops of horse make, may, by agreement, give great variety of nétic fications. Helder. would add notbing of courage to their fellows. Clarendon. 70 NoʻTIFY, v.a. [notifier, Fr. nciifico, 6. No importance; no use; no value. Lat.) To declare ; to make known; to The outward show of churches, draws the publish. ruce people to the reverenciag and frequenting There are other kind of laws, which notify thereof, whatever some of our late too nic tools the will of God. say, there is sotbing in the seemly form of the Good and evil operate upon the mind of man), church. Spenser. by those respective appellations by which they naughi. Sout. are rotified and conveyed to the mind. Isaiat. This solar month is by civil sanction noliko 7. Ivo possession of fortune. in authentic calendars the chief measure of the Hooker. use. year: a kind of standard by which we measure The most forward notional dictators sit down time. Holder. in a contented ignorance. Glanville, NOʻTION. n. s. [notion, Fr. notio, Lat.) NOTIONALITY, n. s. [from notional.] 1. Thought ; representation of any thing Empty, ungrounded opinion. Not in formed by the mind; idea ; image; conception. I aimed at the advance of science, by dis. Being we are at this time to speak of the crediting empty and talkative notionality. Glany. proper nolien of the church, therefore I shall NOʻTIONALLY. adv. [from notional.] In not look upon it as comprehending any more idea; mentally; in our conception, than the sons of men. Pearson. The fiction of some beings which are not in though not in reality. nature, second notions as the logicians call them, The whole rational nature of man consists of has been founded on the conjunction of two two faculties, understanding and will, whether natures, which have a real separate being. Dryd. really or notionally distinct, I shall not dispute. 1 Many actions are punished by law, that are Norris. acts of ingratitude; but this is merely accidental NOTORIETY. n. s. [notorieté, Fr. from to them, as they are such acts; for if they were notorious.] Publick knowledge; pubpunished properly under that notion, and upon that account, the punishment would equally lick exposure. reach all actions of the same kind. South. We see what a multitude of pagan testimonies What liath been generally agreed on, I con may be produced for all those remarkable pastent myself to assume under the notion of prin sages : and indeed of several, that more than ciples, in order to what I have farther to write. answer your expectation, as they were not sub Newton. jects in their own nature so exposed to publick There is nothing made a more common sub- notoriety. Addison. ject of discourse than nature and its laws; and NOTORIOUS. adj. [notorius, Latin; noyet few agree in their notions about these words. Cbeyne. toire, Fr.], Publickly known; evident That notion of hunger, cold, sound, colour, to the world ; apparent ; not bidden. thought, wish, or fear, which is in the mind, is It is commonly used of things known called the idea of hunger, cold, sound, wish, 6c. to their disadvantage; whence by those Watts. who do not know the true signification 2, Sentiment; opinion. of the word, an atrocious crime is called God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares, a notorious crime, whether publick or And not molest us; unless we ourselves secret. Seek them with wand'ring thoughts and notions What need you make such ado in cloaking vain. Milton. It would be incredible to a man who has never Wbitgifi. The goodness of your intercepted packets been in France, should one relate the extrava You writ to the pope against the king; your gant nation they entertain of themselves, and goodness, the mean opinion they have of their neighbours. Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. Addison. Sensual wits they were, who, it is probable, Sbakspears. I shall have law in Ephesus, took pleasure in ridiculing the notion of a life tó To your notorious shame. Sbakspeare. Atterbury. In the time of king Edward 111. the impedi3. Sense; understanding; intellectual ments of the conquest of Ireland are notorious. power. This sense is frequent in Shaks. Davies. peare, but not in use. This presbyterian man of war congratulates a certain notorious murther, committed by a His notion weakens, his discernings zealot of his own devotion. W bite. Are lethargy'd. Sbakspeare. We think not fit to condemn the most notoSo told, as earthly notion can receive. Milton. rious malefactor before he hath had licence to NoʻTIONAL. adj. [from notion.] propose his plea. Fell. What notorious vice is there that doth not 1. Imaginary ; ideal ; intellectual ; sub blemish a man's reputation ? sisting only in idea; visionary; fan Tillotson. The inhabitants of Naples have been always tastical. very notorious for leading a life of laziness and The general and indefinite contemplations and pleasure, which arises partly out of the plenty notions, of the elements and their conjugations, of their country, and partly out of the temper of the intiuences of heaven, are to be set aside, of their climate. Addison, being but notional and ill-limited; and definite The bishops have procured some small adaxioms are to be drawn out of measured instances. Bacon, vancement of rents; although it be notorious that they do not receive the third penny of the real Happiness, object of that waking dream value. Which we call life, mistaking ; fugitive theme Swift. Of my pursuing verse, ideal shade, NOTORIOUSLY. adv. (from notorious. ] Notional good, by tancy only made. Prior. Publickiy; evidently ; openly. We must be wary, lest we ascribe any real 'The exposing himself notoriously, did somesubsistence or personality to this nature or times charge the fortune of the day. Clarendon, chance; tor it is merely a notional and imaginary This is notoriously discoverable in some difthing; an abstract universal, which is properly ferences of brake or fern. Brown, nothing; a conception of our own making, occa- Ovid tells us, that the cause was notoriously sioned by our reflecting upon the settled course known at Rome, though it be left so obscure to of things; denoting only thus much, that all after-ages. Dryden. those bodies move and act according to their Should the genius of a nation be more fixed essential properties, without any consciousness in government, than in morals, learning, and er intention of so doing. Bentley complexion; which do all notoriously vary in 2. Dealing in ideas, not realities, every age. Swift. a matter too notorious. come. ness. NorO'RIOUSNESS. 13. s. [from notorious.) Such is the constant strain of this blessed saint, Publick fame; notoriety. who every where brands the Arian doctrine, as 70 NOTT. v. a. To shear. Ainscuorth. the new, novel, upstart heresy, tolly and made NO'TWHEAT, n. s. (not and wheat. ) Waterland. Of wheat there are two sorts; French, which 2. [In the civil law.] Appendant to the is bearded, and requireth the best soil, and not- code, and of later enaction. wbeit, so termed because it is unbearded, being By the novel constitutions, burial may not be contented with a meaner earth. Carew. denied to any one. Ay.iffe. NOTWITH STA’NDING. conj. [This word, Noʻvel, n. s. (nouvelle, Fr.) though in conformity iv othe: writers called here a conjunction, is properly a 1. A small tale, generally of love. Nething of a foreign nature; like the trifiing participial adjective, as it is compound- novels which Ariostu inserted in his poems. ed of not and wiihstanding, and answers Dryden. exactly to the Latin non obstante; it is Her mangl'd fame in barb'rous pastime lost, most properly and analogically used in The coxconib's novel, and the drunkard's toast, Prior, the ablative case absolute with a noun; as, he is rich notwithstanding his loss; it 2. A law annexed to the code. By the civil law, no one was to be ordained a is not so proper to say, be is rich not. presbyter till he was thirty-tive years of age: withstamling he bas lest much ; yet this though by a later norel it was sufficient, if he mode of writing is too frequent. Addi- was above thirty, son has used it : but when a sentence No'vELIST. n. s. [from novel.] follows, it is more grammatical to insert 1. Innovator ; assertor of novelty. that; as, be is rich no!wittstanding that Telesius, who hath renewed the philosophy of be has lost much. When notwithstanding Parmenides, is the best of novelists. Bacon. is used absolutely, the expression is The fathers of this sy nod were not schismaelliptical, this or that being understood, tical, or novelists in the matter of the sabbath. W like. as in the following passages of Hooker. Aristotle rose, 1. Without hinderance or obstruction Who nature's secrets to the world did teach, from. Yet that great soul our novelists inpeaci. Denb. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous The fooleries of some affected hoodist have cures, were so transported that their gratitude discredited new discoveries. Glanville, made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, pro- The abettors and favourers of them he ranks claim the wonders ho had dune for thein. with the Abonites, Argemonites, ard Samosa Decay of Piety. teriars, condemn'd hereticks, brands them as 2. Although. This use is not proper. novelists of late appearing. Waterlard. A person languishing under an ill habit of 2. A writer of novels. body, may lose several ounces of blond, reiwithe No'velty. 2. s. (nouveauté, Fr.] staring it will weakea hiru for a time, in order to put a new ferment into the remaining mass, 1. Newness; state of being unknown to and draw into it fresh suppres. situiscit foriner times. 3. Neverthe ess; however, They which do that which men of account did They whiunti nou the law as an image of the hefore them, are, although.they do amiss, yet wisdoin of God mstlt, are notwithstanding to the less faulty, because they are not the authors know that the same had an end in Christ. ef harm : and doing well, their actions are freed Hooker. from prejudice or novelty. Hooker, The know ledge is small which we have on 2. Freshness; recentness; newness -with earth concerning things that are done in heaven: respect to a particular person. motzeithstanding tliis much we know even of Novelty is only in request; and it is dangerous saints in heaven, that they pray. Ilocker. to be aged in any kind of course. Svakspeare He hath a tear sor pity, and a hand • As religion entertains our speculations with Open as day, for meltin, charity: great objects, so it entertains them with new; Yet notwithstanding, being incens’d, he's flint; As humorous as winter, and novelty is the great parent of pleasure; upon Sbudspeare. which account it is that men are so much pleased NOʻTUS. n. s. (L tin.] The southwind. with variety. Soutb. With abverse blast upturns them from the NON E'MBER. 1. s. [Lat.] The eleventh south, month of the year, or the ninth reckonNotus and Afer Black, with thund'rous clouds From Sierra Licna. Mixton. ed from March, which was, when the Romans named the months, accounted NOVA’TION. n. S. [novatio, Lat.] The the first, introduction of soinething new. November is drawn in a garment of changea NOVA TOR. 11, s. [I.at.] The introducer able green, and black upon his head. Peacbam. of something new. No’VENARY. NOVEL. adj. [novellus, Latin; non velle, 1. s. [novenarius, Latin.] Number of nine; nine collectively. French.) Ptolemy by parts and numbers impliech dli1. New; not ancient; not used of old; macterical years; that is, soptenaries and neveunusual. Βτετιπ, The preshyterians are exacters nf submission Looking upon them as in their original ditto their notel injunctions, before they are stampe. ferences and combinations, and as selected out ed with the authority of law's. Xin Chirles. of a natural stock of nine quaternions, or four It is no nerei usurpation, but though veid of morenaries, their nature and diferences lie most other title, has the prescription of many accs. obvious to be understood. Holder. Deody of Piely. NOVE'RCAL, adj. [navercalis, from 10 3 naries. sion; cerca, Latin.) Having the manner of but not yet taken the vow; a probaa step-mother; beseeming a step-mo- tioner. ther. Novitiate. n. s. [noviciat, Fr.] When the whole tribe of birds by incubation, 1. The state of a novice; the time in produce their young, it is a wonderful deviation which the rudiments are learned. that some few families should do it in a more Derbam. navercal way. This is so great a masterpiece in sin, that he must have passed liis tyrocinium or novitiate in NOUGHT. 7. s. [ne auhe, not any thing, sinning, before he come to this, be he never so Sax. as therefore we write ought not quick a proficient. South. ought for anything, we should, ac- 2. The time spent in a religious house, by conting to analogy, write naulgt not way of trial, before the vow is taken. nought for nothing ; but a custom has No'vity. n, s. [novitas, Lat.] Newness; irreversibly prevailed of using naught novelty. for bad, and nought for nothing.) Some conceive she might not yet be certain, 1. Not any thing; nothing. that only man was privileged with speech, and Who cannot see this palpable device; being in the novity of the creation and unexpeYet who so buld, but says he sees it not? rience of all things, might not be affrighted to Brown. Bad is the world, and it will come to nought, hear a serpent speak. When such ill dealings must be seen in thought. Noul. The crown of the head. See Shukspeare. NOLL. Spenser. Such smiling rogues as these sooth ev'ry pas. Nould. Ne would; would not. Spens. Noun. n. s. (noun, old Fr. nomen, Lat.] Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With ev'ry gale and vary of their masters, The name of any thing in grainmar. As knowing nought, like dogs, but following. A noun is the name of a thing, whether sub Sbakspeare. stance, mode or relation, which in speech is Ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. used to signify the same when there is occasion Isaiab. to affirm or deny any thing about it, or to express Be frustrate all ye stratagems of hell, any relation it has to any other thing. Clarke. And devi.sh machinations come to nought. Thou hast men about thee, that usually talk Milton. of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no christian ear can endure to hear. Slaksp. 2. In no degree. A kind of adverbial This boy, who scarce has paid his entrance signification, which nothing has some down, times. To his proud pedant, or declin'd a noun. Dryd. In young Rinaldo fierce desires he spy'd, TO NOU'RISH. v. a. (nourir, Fr. nutrio, And noble heart of resc impatient, Latin.) To wealth or sovereign power he nought apply'd. Fairfax. 1. To increase or support by food, or ali ment of any kind. s. To set at Nought. Not to value ; to He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish slight; to scorn; to disregard. it. Isaiab. Ye have set at nought all my counsel, and Through her nourish'd powers enlarg’d by thee, vould none of my reproof. Proverbs. She springs aloft. Thomson, No'vice, 16. s. [uovice, Fr. novitius, Lat.] You are to honour, improve, and perfect the 1. One not acquainted with any thing; a spirit that is within you : you are to prepare it for the kingdom of heaven, to nourish it with fresh man; one in the rudiments of any the love of God and of virtue, to adorn it with knowledge. good works, and to make it as holy and heavenly Triple-twin'd whore! 'tis thou as you can. Law. Hast sold me to this novice. Sbakspeare. 2. To support; to maintain. Bring me to the sight of Isabella, Whilst I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, A novice of this place. Sbakspeare. I will stir up in England some black storm. You are novices; 'tis a world to see Sbakspeare. How tame, when men and women are alone, Him will I follow, and this house forego A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. That nourisht me a maid. Chupman, Sbakspeare, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished We have novices and apprentices, that the him for her own son. Acts. succession of the former employed men do not fail. Bacon. 3. To encourage ; to foment. Out of use. If any unexperienced young nevice happens What madness was it with such proofs to into the fatal neighbourhood of such pests, pre- nourish their contentions, when there were such sently they are plying his full purse and his effectual means to end all controversy? Hooker. empty pate. South. In soothing them, we rourishi'gainst our senate I am young, a novice in the trade, The cockle of rebellion. Sbakspeare, The fool of love, unpractis'd to persuade; Yet to nourish and advance the early virtue of And want the soothing arts that catch the fair, young persons was his more chosen désire. Fell. But caught myselt lie struggling in the snare. Gorias hired soldiers, and nourished war conAnd she I love, or laughs at all my pain, tinually with the Jews. 2 Maccabees. Or knows her worth too well, and pays me with 4. To train, or educate. aisdain. Dryden. Thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, In these experiments I have set do:n such nourished up in the words of faith. i Timothy. circumstances, by which either the phenomenon I travel not, neither do I nourish up young might be rendered more conspicuous, or a novice men, nor bring up virgins. Isaiah. might more easily try them, or by which I did 5. To promote growth or strength, as try them only. Newton. food. 2. One who has entered a religious house, In vegetables there is one part more nourish ܪ |