Noise"ful (?), a. Loud; clamorous. [Obs.] Dryden.
Noise"less, a. Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise;
silent; as, the noiseless foot of time.
So noiseless would I live.
Dryden.
-- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
Noi*sette" (?), n. (Bot.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French
gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose
and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the
Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most
roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.
P. Henderson.
Nois"i*ly (?), adv. In a noisy manner.
Nois"i*ness, n. The state or quality of being noisy.
Noi"some (?), a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See Annoy.] 1.
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious;
destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." Ps. xci. 3.
2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul
breath is noisome." Shak.
-- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness, n.
Syn. -- Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive.
-- Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been
interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between
them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a
noxious plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things that
operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome
pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A
garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently
covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell.
Nois"y (?), a. [Compar. Noisier (?); superl. Noisiest.] [From Noise.]
1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent;
boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.