Noninflectional
(Non`in*flec"tion*al) a. Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.
Noninhabitant
(Non`in*hab"it*ant) n. One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
Nonintervention
(Non*in`ter*ven"tion) n. The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention
of one state in the affairs of another.
Nonius
(No"ni*us) n. [Latinized form of Nunez, the name of a Portuguese mathematician.] A vernier.
Nonjoinder
(Non*join"der) n. (Law) The omission of some person who ought to have been made a
plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.
Nonjurant
(Non*ju"rant) a. Nonjuring.
Nonjuring
(Non*ju"ring) a. [F. jurer to swear, or L. jurare, jurari, to swear, fr. L. jus, juris, right, law,
justice. See Jury.] Not swearing allegiance; — applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear
allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.
Nonjuror
(Non*ju"ror) n. (Eng. Hist.) One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the
oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.
Nonjurorism
(Non*ju"ror*ism) n. (Eng. Hist.) The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.
Nonlimitation
(Non*lim`i*ta"tion) n. Want of limitation; failure to limit.
Non liquet
(||Non` li"quet) [L.] It is not clear; — a verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred
to another day of trial.
Nonmalignant
(Non`ma*lig"nant) a. Not malignant, as a disease.
Nonmanufacturing
(Non*man`u*fac"tur*ing) a. Not carrying on manufactures.
Nonmedullated
(Non*med"ul*la`ted) a. Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without
a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.
Nonmember
(Non*mem"ber), n. One who is not a member.
Nonmembership
(Non*mem"ber*ship), n. State of not being a member.
Nonmetal
(Non"met`al) n. (Chem.) Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals,
possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and
chlorine are nonmetals.
Nonmetallic
(Non`me*tal"lic) a.
1. Not metallic.
2. (Chem.) Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic
element.
Nonnatural
(Non*nat"u*ral), a. Not natural; unnatural.
Nonne
(Nonne) n. A nun. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Nonnecessity
(Non`ne*ces"si*ty) n. Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.
