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] The time about noon; noontide. "After no one fall slightly Pandar us Gan drew him to the window nye the strete." Chaucer: Troilus and Cre eide , bk. ii. West Indies. There is a single pair of eyes. The species are large and active, and reside in tubes and cells of silk, from which they rush out on pa ing insects. marine; gō, pot, nopster *nop-ster, s. [A. S. hnoppa ; Dut. noppe=the nap or flock of cloth; fem. suff. -ster .] A woman employed to nip off the knots, flock, pile, or nap of woven fabrics in readine for the market. nor, conj. [A contr. of nother, another spelling of neither (q. v.).] 1. A word or particle used to mark the second or subsequent branch of a negative disjunctive proposition; correlative to neither or some other negative. "I could not see, nor hear, nor touch." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 440. *2. Formerly a second negative was used with nor. "I know not love, nor will not know it." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 409. We even find three negatives used together. "Nor never none shall mistre be of it." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, iii. 1. 3. Occasionally in poetry neither is omitted, the negation which would be expre ed by it being understood in the nor . "Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid, vi. 135. 4. Occasionally in poetry nor is used for neither. " Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire." Shakesp.: Sonnet 55. 5. Nor is used as equivalent to and not , in which sense it need not always correspond to a foregoing negative. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard."-1 Corinth ., ii. 9. nor-a-lite, s. [From Nora, Westmannland, Sweden, where found, and Gr. lithos =a stone.J Min.: A name given by Dana to a group of black aluminous iron-lime hornblendes.