<B>Notogaea, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a zoogeographic region of the earth's surface that includes Australia, New Zealand, South America, and tropical North America. </DL>
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<B>Notogaean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the Notogaea. </DL>
<A NAME="notoriety">
<B>notoriety, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fact or condition of being famous for something bad; ill fame. <BR> <I>Ex. A crime or scandal brings much notoriety to those involved in it.</I> (SYN) notoriousness. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or condition of being widely known. <BR> <I>Ex. The newspapers gave the plan notoriety overnight.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a well-known person; celebrity. <BR> <I>Ex. They ... enjoy the vicarious pleasure of mixing with society notorieties (New Statesman).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="notorious">
<B>notorious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>well known because of something bad; having a bad reputation. <BR> <I>Ex. The notorious thief was sent to prison for his many crimes.</I> (SYN) infamous. <DD><B> 2. </B>well-known; celebrated. <BR> <I>Ex. a notorious court case. Sir Winston Churchill's taste for cigars was notorious.</I> adv. <B>notoriously.</B> noun <B>notoriousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="notornis">
<B>notornis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any almost extinct flightless rail of a group that inhabits New Zealand. </DL>
<A NAME="notostracan">
<B>notostracan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any of a group of branchiopods with sessile eyes and a low, oval carapace. </DL>
<A NAME="notredame">
<B>Notre Dame,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Our Lady, the Virgin Mary. </DL>
<A NAME="notrump">
<B>no-trump, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> without any trumps, especially in bridge. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a declaration in bridge to play with no suit as trumps. <DD><B> 2. </B>a hand in bridge that is, or is suitable to be, so played. </DL>
<A NAME="notum">
<B>notum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ta.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the dorsal part of an insect's thoracic segment. </DL>
<A NAME="notungulate">
<B>notungulate, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or belonging to a group of extinct herbivorous mammals abundant in South America during the Cenozoic era. <DD><I>noun </I> a notungulate animal. </DL>
<A NAME="notwithstanding">
<B>notwithstanding, </B>preposition, conjunction, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>prep. </I> in spite of. <BR> <I>Ex. I bought it notwithstanding the high price.</I> (SYN) despite. <DD><I>conj. </I> in spite of the fact that. <BR> <I>Ex. Notwithstanding there was need for haste, he still delayed.</I> (SYN) although. <DD><I>adv. </I> <B>1. </B>in spite of it; nevertheless. <BR> <I>Ex. It is raining; but I shall go, notwithstanding.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>in spite of anything; still; yet. <BR> <I>Ex. He is, notwithstanding, entitled to decent treatment.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="nougat">
<B>nougat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of soft candy made chiefly from sugar and egg whites and containing nuts. </DL>
<B>noumena, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>noumenon.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="noumenal">
<B>noumenal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with noumena. <DD><B> 2. </B>consisting of noumena; understood only by intuition; not phenomenal. adv. <B>noumenally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="noumenon">
<B>noumenon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-na.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in Kantian philosophy) something that seems real, but cannot be truly understood, although people have some intuitive idea of it, as God or the soul. <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing-in-itself; something that remains of an object of thought after all the categories of understanding, such as space and time, have been removed from it. </DL>
<A NAME="noun">
<B>noun, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a word used as the name of a person, place, thing, quality, or event. Words like <I>John, table, school, kindness, skill,</I> and <I>party</I> are nouns. A noun can take a plural or possessive ending and is usually the subject or object in a sentence or phrase. <DD><B> 2. </B>the part of speech or form class to which such words belong. <DD><B> 3. </B>a word, phrase, or clause, functioning as a noun; nominal. (Abbr:) n. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of a noun. <DD><B> 2. </B>like or used as a noun. </DL>
<A NAME="nourish">
<B>nourish, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>to make grow, or keep alive and well, with food; feed; nurture. <BR> <I>Ex. Milk is all we need to nourish our small baby. It's a' for the apple he'll nourish the tree (Robert Burns).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to supply; sustain; support. <BR> <I>Ex. a river nourished by many small streams.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to encourage; support; maintain; foster. <BR> <I>Ex. to nourish a hope. I could find nothing to nourish my suspicion (Daniel Defoe).</I> noun <B>nourisher.</B> adv. <B>nourishingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="nourishment">
<B>nourishment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>food; nutriment; sustenance. <BR> <I>Ex. Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden, and the milk of one cow (Mary W. Shelley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act or process of nourishing. <DD><B> 3. </B>the condition of being nourished. </DL>
<A NAME="nous">
<B>nous, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the mind as the seat of reason; intellect. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) common sense or gumption. </DL>
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<B>Nous, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> God (as the Supreme Intellect). </DL>
<A NAME="nouveaupauvre">
<B>nouveau pauvre, </B>pl. <B>nouveaux pauvres.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person who has recently become poor. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) new poor. </DL>
<A NAME="nouveauriche">
<B>nouveau riche, </B>pl. <B>nouveaux riches,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1a. </B>a person who has recently become rich. <DD><B> b. </B>a person who makes a vulgar display of his wealth. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) new rich. </DL>
<A NAME="nouveauroman">
<B>nouveau roman, </B>pl. <B>nouveaux romans,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a type of novel developed chiefly in France in the 1960's, characterized by lack of moral, social, or psychological comment and by precise descriptions that suggest the mental state of the person experiencing or seeing them; antinovel. <BR> <I>Ex. The detailed objectivity of the narration, giving every event movement by movement, the device of addressing the reader by the vocative ... and the drifting plotlessness of the book, are hallmarks of the nouveau roman (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) new novel. </DL>
<A NAME="nouveaute">
<B>nouveaute, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tes,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) something new; novelty. </DL>
<A NAME="nouvellecuisine">
<B>nouvelle cuisine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a form of French cooking using light ingredients, relatively little cooking, and unusual combinations of foods. <BR> <I>Ex. Here are three prize-winning recipes from that contest: a lamb curry, a chocolate "souffle" ... and a scallop dish, a rare bit of nouvelle cuisine in the heartland of America (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<B>nova, </B>noun, pl. <B>-vae,</B> <B>-vas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a star that suddenly becomes much brighter and then gradually fades, to its normal brightness, over a period of several weeks, months, or sometimes years. <BR> <I>Ex. [Stars] occasionally boil up to a state of instability that results in their exploding as a nova (William A. Fowler).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="novaculite">
<B>novaculite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very hard, dense, siliceous rock used especially for hones and for grinding wheels. </DL>
<A NAME="novascotian">
<B>Nova Scotian,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with Nova Scotia, a province in southeastern Canada, or its inhabitants. <DD><B> 2. </B>a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia. </DL>
<A NAME="novate">
<B>novate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-vated,</B> <B>-vating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to replace by something new. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) to replace by a new obligation or debt. </DL>
<A NAME="novation">
<B>novation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Law.) the substitution of a new obligation for an old one, as by replacing the old debtor or creditor with a new one or by altering the names. <DD><B> 2. </B>a change; innovation. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) alteration; renewal. </DL>
<A NAME="novel">
<B>novel</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of a new kind or nature; not known before; strange; new; unfamiliar. <BR> <I>Ex. Flying gives people a novel sensation. Red snow is a novel idea to us.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="novel">
<B>novel</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a story with characters and a plot, long enough to fill one or more volumes. Novels are usually about people, scenes, and happenings such as might be met in real life. <BR> <I>Ex. Only a novel ... only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature ... the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed in the best chosen language (Jane Austen).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=novella.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>the novel,</B> </I>the branch of literature represented by such stories. <BR> <I>Ex. The novel is about experience, and experience is always changing (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="novel">
<B>novel</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in Roman law) a new decree or constitution supplementary to a code. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in civil law) a supplement to a law. </DL>
<A NAME="novelette">
<B>novelette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a short novel or very long short story. </DL>
<A NAME="novelettish">
<B>novelettish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>characteristic of a second-rate novelette. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Especially British.) sentimental; trite. noun <B>novelettishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="novelist">
<B>novelist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a writer of novels. <BR> <I>Ex. It is the duty of the novelist to make us believe in his people (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="novelistic">
<B>novelistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like novels. adv. <B>novelistically.</B> </DL>
