Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls.
Hooker.
Nour"i*ture (?), n. Nurture. [Obs.] Spenser.
Nour"sle (?), v. t. [Freq., fr. OE. nourse. See Nurse.] To nurse; to
rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle,
nusle, nuzzle, etc.]
She noursled him till years he raught.
Spenser.
||Nous (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; mind.] Intellect; understanding;
||talent; -- used humorously.
{ Nous"el, Nou"sle } (?), v. t. [See Noose.] To insnare; to entrap.
[Obs.] Johnson.
{ Nou"the, Now"the (?) }, adv. [Now + the.] Just now; at present.
[Obs.]
But thereof needeth not to speak as nouthe.
Chaucer.
No*vac"u*lite (?), n. [L. novacula a sharp knife, razor: cf. F.
novaculite.] (Min.) A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are
made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.
No*va"tian (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of the sect of Novatius, or
Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into
communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
No*va"tian*ism (?), n. The doctrines or principles of the Novatians.
Milner.
No*va"tion (?), n. [L. novatio; novus new: cf. F. novation.] 1.
Innovation. [Obs.]
I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of
distempers in commonwealths.
Laud.
2. (Law) A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the
remodeling of an old obligation.