Non`ex*ist"ent (?), a. Not having existence.
Non*ex`por*ta"tion (?), n. A failure of exportation; a not exporting of
commodities.
Non`ex*ten"sile (?), a. Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.
Non-fea"sance (?), n. [Pref. non- + OF. faisance a doing, fr. faire to
do.] (Law) An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which
ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.
Non`ful*fill"ment, n. Neglect or failure to fulfill.
No*nil"lion (?), n. [L. nonus ninth + -illion, as in E. million.]
According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions,
or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English
notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers
annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Non*im`por*ta"tion (?), n. Want or failure of importation; a not
importing of commodities.
Non`im*port"ing (?), a. Not importing; not bringing from foreign
countries.
Non`in*flec"tion*al (?), a. Not admitting of, or characterized by,
inflection.
Non`in*hab"it*ant (?), n. One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a
foreigner; a nonresident.
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.
No"ni*us (?), n. [Latinized form of Nunez, the name of a Portuguese
mathematician.] A vernier.
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.
Non*ju"rant (?), a. 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.
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.
Non*ju"ror*ism (?), n. (Eng. Hist.) The doctrines, or action, of the
Nonjurors.
Non*lim`i*ta"tion (?), n. Want of limitation; failure to limit.
||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.
Non`ma*lig"nant (?), a. Not malignant, as a disease.
Non*man`u*fac"tur*ing (?), a. Not carrying on manufactures.
Non*med"ul*la`ted (?), a. Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or
marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.
Non*mem"ber, n. One who is not a member.
Non*mem"ber*ship, n. State of not being a member.
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.
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.
Non*nat"u*ral, a. Not natural; unnatural.
Nonne (?), n. A nun. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Non`ne*ces"si*ty (?), n. Absence of necessity; the quality or state of
being unnecessary.
Non`ni*trog"nous (?), a. Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous
principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.
Non*nu"cle*a`ted (?), a. Without a nucleus.
Non"ny (?), n. A silly fellow; a ninny.
Non`o*be"di*ence (?), n. Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
Non`ob*serv"ance (?), n. Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
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||Non` ob*stan"te (?). [L.] 1. Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in
||spite of, what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.
2. (Law) A clause in old English statutes and letters patent, importing
a license from the crown to do a thing notwithstanding any statute to
the contrary. This dispensing power was abolished by the Bill of
Rights.
In this very reign [Henry III.] the practice of dispensing with
statutes by a non obstante was introduced.
Hallam.
||Non obstante veredicto [LL.] (Law), a judgment sometimes entered by
||order of the court, for the plaintiff, notwithstanding a verdict for
||the defendant. Stephen.
No*no"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling,
nonane; as, nonoic acid, which is also called pelargonic acid. Cf.
Pelargonic.
Non"one (?), n. [Nonane + - one, suffix denoting the third degree of
unsaturation.] (Chem.) Any one of several metameric unsaturated
hydrocarbons (C9H14) of the valylene series.
Non`ox*yg"e*nous (?), a. (Chem.) Without oxygen; characterized by the
absence of oxygen; as, a nonoxygenous alkaloid.