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- English Word Nodding Definition Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
- English Word Noddle Definition The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.
- English Word Noddle Definition The back part of the head or neck.
- English Word Noddy Definition A simpleton; a fool.
- English Word Noddy Definition Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.
- English Word Noddy Definition The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
- English Word Noddy Definition An old game at cards.
- English Word Noddy Definition A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
- English Word Noddy Definition An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
- English Word Node Definition A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
- English Word Node Definition One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.
- English Word Node Definition The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
- English Word Node Definition A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
- English Word Node Definition The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
- English Word Node Definition The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
- English Word Node Definition The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
- English Word Node Definition A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- English Word Node Definition One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
- English Word Node Definition A swelling.
- English Word Nodical Definition Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon.
- English Word Nodosarine Definition Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria.
- English Word Nodosarine Definition A foraminifer of the genus Nodosaria or of an allied genus.
- English Word Nodose Definition Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.
- English Word Nodose Definition Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects.
- English Word Nodosity Definition The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
- English Word Nodosity Definition A knot; a node.
- English Word Nodosous Definition Alt. of Nodous
- English Word Nodous Definition Nodose; knotty; knotted.
- English Word Nodular Definition Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.
- English Word Nodule Definition A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.