Gnomon

no'mon, n. (Dialing.) The style or pin of a sun-dial, whose shadow shows the hour of day; the index of the hour-circle of a globe. [L. and Gr., an interpreter, gnonai, to know.] — Gnos'tic, n. CEccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the first ages of Christianity, whose system combined oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of am, fame, far, pa or opera, fare fend, GOD Christianity. — a. Pert, to the Gnostics or their doctrines. [Gr. gnostikos, good at knowing, Ir gnostos = gnotos, known.] — Gnosticism, -tl-sizm, Doctrines of the Gnostics. Gnu, nu, A S. African antelope, having a horse's neck, body, and tail, and single, recurved horns. [Hottentot.]