2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]

Those who are noxious in the eye of the law.

Abp. Bramhall.

Syn. -- Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious;

mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See

Noisome.

-- Nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Nox"ious*ness, n.

Noy (?), v. t. [See Annoy.] To annoy; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Piers Plowman.

All that noyed his heavy spright.

Spenser.

Noy, n. That which annoys. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Noy"ance (?), n. Annoyance. [Obs.] Spenser.

||Noy`au" (?), n. [F., prop., the stone or nut of a fruit, fr. L.

||nucalis like a nut. See Newel a post.] A cordial of brandy, etc.,

||flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone,

||etc.

Noy"er (?), n. An annoyer. [Obs.] Tusser.

Noy"ful (?), a. Full of annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Noyls (?), n. pl. See Noils.

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