noumeaite, noumeite, numeite

[From Noumea, New Caledonia, where found; suff. -ite (Min.).] Min.: An amorphous mineral substance, found in 2868 Thomas, Rome. Common nouns are the names of a cla of things; as, book, house, horse. Collective nouns are the names of aggregates; as, army, fleet, flock. Material nouns are the names of materials or substances; as, gold, iron, water. Some grammarians cla adjectives as well as substantives as nouns, distinguishing the former as nouns-adjective and the latter as nouns-substantive. noun-al, a . [Eng. noun; -al.] Pertaining to a noun; having the character or qualities of a noun. *noû'-riçe, *no-rice, *nource, s. [O. Fr.norice; Fr. nourrice , from Lat. nutricem , acc us. of nutrix = a nurse (q. v.).] A nurse. "Flatterers ben the devil's nourices that nourish his children with milke of losengrie."-Chaucer: Per sones Tale . *nourse-son, s. A foster-son.