Nonage

non'aj, n. The time of life before a person becomes of age; minority. [L. non-, not (orig. not one, ne, not, and oinwn, old form of unum, neut. — of wins, one; cf. None, under No), and E. age.] Non'-attend'ance, -ans, n. Failure to attend.— Nonchalance, nawN-sha-laNs', n. Indifference; carele ne ; coolne . [F.]— Nonchalant, -lax', a. Indifferent; carele ; cool. [F., p. pr. of nonchaloir, to have no care for, non (= L. non) and chaloir, to concern one's self, L. calere, to glow, be roused: see Caloric] — Non-commis's ioned, -mish'und, a. Not having a commi ion. — Non-commi ioned cer. An officer of a rank below lieutenant; a warrant officer. — Non-commit'tal, n. A state of not being committed or pledged to any course. — Noncompliance, -ans, n. Neglect or failure of compliance. — Non com'pos, N. men'tis. Lit., not of sound mind. — n. An idiot lunatic. [L.] — Nonconcur'', -kgr', To di ent or refuse to concur. — Non-concur 'rence, n. Refusal to concur. — Non conduct'or, n. A substance which does not transmit or permit the pa age of a substance, fluid, or force, as heat, electricity, etc., or which transmits with difficulty. — Non-conform'ist, n. One who does not conform to an established church. — Non-conform'- ity, n. Neglect of conformity; esp., in Eng., refusal to unite with the established church in worship. — Non con's tat. It not clear, or does not appear. [LawL.] — Non-content', n. (British — House of Lords.) One who gives a negative vote. Non'descript, -de-skript, a. Not hitherto described; novel; odd; abnormal; irregular. — n. A thing not yet described; something abnormal, or hardly cla ifiable. [L. non and describere, descriptum, to describe, q. v.] — Nonen'tity, -tl-tT, n. Non-existence; negation of being; a thing not existing; a person of no account a nobody. — Non-e en'tial, -shal, a. Not e ential. — n. A thing which, etc. — Non est inven'tus. Lit., he is not found. (Law.) The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county. — Non-exisfence, n. Absence of existence nonentity a thing that has no being. — Non-exisfent, a. Not having existence. — Noh-fulfill'ment, n. Neglect or failure to fulfill. — Non-jur'ing, a. Not swearing allegiance, — applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Marv. [L. jurare, to swear, jus, juris, right, law.] — Nonjuror, noniu'- or non'ju-rSr, n. (Eng. Hist.) One who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the government and crown of Eng. during and after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite. — Non-nat'urals, n. pi. (Med.) Things nece ary to human existence, but not entering into the composition or constituting the nature of man, such as air, food, drink, sleep, etc.— Non-observ,ance, n. Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill. — Nonpareil'', -pa-reK, n. Something of unequaled excellence; a sort of apple a small sugar-plum; a kind of narrow ribbon; a brilliantly colored singing bird, of the finch family; a printing type, in size between ruby and emerald. (B^T" This line is printed in nonpareil type. — a. Having no equal; peerle . [F., non and pareil, equal, LL. variculus, dim. of L. par, equal — Non-pay'ment, n. Neglect or failure to pay. — Non-perform 'ance, n. Neglect or failure to sun, cube, full moon, cow, oil NOON perform. -Non'plus, n. Insuperable difficulty; state of embarra ment inability to say, do, or decide puzzle. — v. [nonplused (-plust), -plusing.] To puzzle, confound, put to a stand. [L. non and plus, more, further.] — Non pros. (Law.) A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. [Abbr. of L. non pro sequitur, he does not prosecute.] — Non'-pros, [-pro ed ('-prost), -peo ing.] To fail to prosecute. — Non-residence, n. Failure or neglect of residing at the place where one stationed. — Non-resident, a. Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place. — n. One who does not reside in, or is not a resident of, a particular place, —applied esp., in Eng., to clergymen who live away from their cures; absentee. — Non-resist'ance, n. The principles or practice of a non-resistant pa ive obedience. — Non-resist'ant, a. Making no resistance to power, oppre ion, or violence. — n. One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppre ively exercised; one who holds that wrong or violence should not be resisted by force. — Non'- sense, n. That which not intelligible, not sense, or has no meaning; trifles; things of no importance. — Nonsensical, a. Unmeaning; absurd; foolish.