noun, noune

[O. Fr. non, noun, nun (Fr. nom), from Lat. nomen a name, a noun; Sp., Port. & Ital. nome.] Grammar: A name; a word used to denote any object of which we speak, whether animate or inanimate, material or immaterial. Nouns include: (1) Abstract substantives, like virtue , which denote the qualities of things simply, significative only of mental conceptions. (2) Concrete substantives, in which a single attribute stands synecdochically for many. Concrete nouns are subdivided into Proper, Common, Collective, and Material. Proper nouns, are such as are the names of individual persons or things; as, le ."- Bacon. *noŭr-Ish, s. (NOURICE.] A nurse. "Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., i. 1.