Nol"de (?). [Contr. fr. ne wolde.] Would not. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Nole (?), n. [See Noll.] The head. [Obs.] Shak.
||No"li-me-tan"ge*re (?), n. [L., touch me not.]
1. (Bot.) (a) Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules
which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens.
(b) The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
2. (Med.) A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous
cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative
affection of the nose.
No*li"tion (?), n. [L. nolle not to will, to be unwilling; ne + velle
to will, to be willing.] Adverse action of will; unwillingness; --
opposed to volition.
A nolition and a direct enmity against the lust.
Jer. Taylor.
Noll (?), n. [OE. nol, AS. hnoll top; akin to OHG. hnol top, head.] The
head; the noddle. [Obs.]
Nol*le"i*ty (?), n. [L. nolle to be unwilling.] The state of being
unwilling; nolition. [R.]
||Nol"le pros"e*qui (?). [L., to be unwilling to prosecute.] (Law) Will
||not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff
||discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution;
||either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several
||defendants.
||No"lo con*ten"de*re (?). [L., I do not wish to contend.] (Law) A
||plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without
||admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of
||guilty.
Nol. pros. An abbrev. of Nolle prosequi.
Nol`-pros" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. -prossed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
-prossing.] To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to
prosecute.