3. The hour of dinner; the noonday meal. [Obs.]

At my supper and sometimes at nones.

P. Plowman.

Non`es*sen"tial (?), a. Not essential.

Non`es*sen"tial, n. A thing not essential.

||Non` est` fac"tum (?). [Law L. it is not (his) deed.] (Law) The plea

||of the general issue in an action of debt on bond.

||Non` est` in*ven"tus (?). [L., he is not found.] (Law) The return of

||a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county.

||Bouvier.

None"such` (?), n. A person or thing of a sort that there is no other

such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is

given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a

species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

{ No*net" (?), ||No*net"to (?) }, n. [From L. nonus ninth, like E.

duet, fr. L. duo.] (Mus.) A composition for nine instruments, rarely

for nine voices.

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