They that but now, for honor and for plate, Made the sea blush with
blood, resign their hate.
Waller.
3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated;
at a particular time referred to.
The ship was now in the midst of the sea.
Matt. xiv. 24.
4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used
as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.
How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of
honor ?
L'Estrange.
Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is ?
Shak.
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now,
Barabbas was a robber.
John xviii. 40.
The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their
being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is
misrepresented to others in the way of slander.
South.
Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- Now and now, again and
again; repeatedly. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Now and then, at one time and
another; indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. "A mead
here, there a heath, and now and then a wood." Drayton. -- Now now, at
this very instant; precisely now. [Obs.] "Why, even now now, at holding
up of this finger, and before the turning down of this." J. Webster
(1607). -- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another
time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." Pope.
Now, a. Existing at the present time; present. [R.] "Our now
happiness." Glanvill.
Now, n. The present time or moment; the present.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal now does
ever last.
Cowley.
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Now"a*days` (?), adv. [For now on (OE. an) days. See A-, 1.] In these
days; at the present time.
What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new
plays ?
Garrick.
{ No"way` (?), No"ways` (?), } adv. [No, a. + way. Cf. - wards.] In no
manner or degree; not at all; nowise.
But Ireland will noways allow that name unto it.
Fuller.
Nowch (?), n. See Nouch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Nowd (?), n. (Zoöl.) The European gray gurnard (Trigla gurnardus).
[Written also knoud.]
Now"ed (?), a. [F. noué, p. p. of nouer to knot, fr. L. nodare. See
Nodated.] (Her.) Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.