| noggin | 1. A small mug or cup. 2. A measure equivalent to a gill. Origin: Ir. Noigin, or Gael. Noigean. Cf. Lst Nog. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| nogging | Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building. Origin: From Nog. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Noguchia | A genus of aerobic to facultatively anaerobic, motile, peritrichous bacteria (family Brucellaceae) containing small, slender, Gram-negative, encapsulated rods. These organisms are present in the conjunctiva of man and other animals affected by a follicular type of disease. The type species is Noguchia granulosis. Origin: Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese bacteriologist, 1876-1928 (05 Mar 2000) |
| Noguchia cuniculi | A species which causes conjunctival folliculosis in rabbits. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Noguchia granulosis | A species regarded by some as a cause of trachoma in man; it produces a granular conjunctivitis in monkeys and apes; it is the type species of the genus Noguchia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Noguchia simiae | A species which causes conjunctival folliculosis in monkeys (Macacus rhesus). (05 Mar 2000) |
| noise | 1. Sound of any kind. "The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived." (Bacon) Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many discordant sounds, like the rolling of thunder or the noise of the waves. Nevertheless, the difference between sound and noise is by no means precise. 2. Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din. 3. Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report. "The noise goes." "What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!" (T. Baker) "Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages." (Spectator) 4. Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band. "The king has his noise of gypsies." (B. Jonson) Synonym: Cry, outcry, clamor, din, clatter, uproar. Origin: F. Noise noisy strife, quarrel, brawl, fr. L. Nausea seasickness, sickness, disgust. See Nausea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| noise, occupational | Noise present in occupational, industrial, and factory situations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| noise, transportation | Noise associated with transportation, particularly aircraft and automobiles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| noise-induced deafness | A type of sensorineural deafness caused by prolonged exposure to loud sounds, e.g., jet engines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| noisette | <botany> A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| noisome | 1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." 2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Noi"somely, Noi"someness. Synonym: Noxious, unwholesome, insalubrious, mischievous, destructive. Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious plant, noxious practices, etc, and noisome to things that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell. Origin: For noysome, fr. Noy for annoy. See Annoy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| nojirimycin | <drug> Antibiotic produced by Streptomyces strains, inhibits _ glucosidases and prevents normal glycosylation of proteins by interfering with the early pruning down to the core carbohydrate that is normally followed by addition of specific sugar residues. (18 Nov 1997) |
| nol-pros | To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute. Origin: prossed; -prossing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| noli-me-tangere | 1. <botany> Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. See Impatiens. The squirting cucumber. See Cucumber. 2. <medicine> A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose. Origin: L, touch me not. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |