Nun

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 280

nun, re. A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a cloister or nunnery under a vow of perpetual chastity and seclusion from the world; a kind of small pigeon. —Nun' nery, -ner-i, re. A cloister or house in which nuns reside. oi or Nuncio, nun'shT-o, re. A me enger; an emba ador is from the pope to an_emperor or king.