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n. [ Anthracene + quinone. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with cannon. [ Poetic ] “Gilbralter's cannoned steep.” M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The use of cannon. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. canonnier. ] A man who manages, or fires, cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. canonissa. ] A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regular canoness, one bound by the vow of poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. --
Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. chinium quinine (see Chinoidine.) + -one. ] (Chem.) See Quinone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coeruleus cerulean + lignum wood + E. quinone. ] (Chem.) A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hydro-, 2 + quinone. ] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Quinone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Lignin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mignonnette, dim. of mignon darling. See 2d Minion. ] (Bot.) A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Naphthalene + quinone. ] (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & pron. [ OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. nān, fr. ne not + ān one. √193. See No, a. & adv., One, and cf. Non-, Null, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Ps. xiv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. Ex. xvi. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

Terms of peace yet none
Vouchsafed or sought. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of their productions are extant. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. “They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities.” Fuller. --
None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Same as Nones, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not effective; ineffective. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) Not fit or available for duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not having elasticity; not able to be stretched reversibly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. (Theol.) A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Failure of election. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A substance that is not an insulator (i. e., an electric); that which transmits electricity, as a metal; a conductor. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ , a. 1. Not electric; conducting electricity. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not powered by electricity; -- of machines, tools, or devices. [ PJC ]

{ , a. Having no emphasis; unemphatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Nonentities 1. Nonexistence; the negation of being. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing not existing. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person or thing of little or no account; an unimportant person; -- usually used as a disparaging term. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. Not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ L. nonae, so called because it was the ninth day before the ides, fr. nonus ninth, from novem nine. See Nine, Nones, 2, Noon . ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Roman Calendar) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ F. none, fr. L. See Noon. ] The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 p. m.) in the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The hour of dinner; the noonday meal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At my supper and sometimes at nones. P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not essential. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thing not essential. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The titmouse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ From L. nonus ninth, like E. duet, fr. L. duo. ] (Mus.) A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Not exempt; subject to (some specified) rule. Opposite of exempt. [ Narrower terms: liable to(predicate); subject, subject to(predicate) ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Specifically: (U. S. Labor Law) Not exempt from the provisions of the fair labor practises act; -- a term applied mostly to persons who are hourly employees, who are required by law to be treated in certain ways. Many salaried and management personnnel are not covered by the law and are therefore exempt. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The state of not existing; absence of existence; the negation of being; -- usually used with reference to existince in the real world, or logical possiblity; as, the nonexistence of vaporware does not go unnoticed long. A. Baxter.
Syn. -- nonentity{ 1 }. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not having existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not exploratory. Opposite of exploratory.
Syn. -- nonexplorative, unexploratory, unexplorative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Not explosive. [ Narrower terms: noncombustible (vs. combustible), incombustible ] WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A failure of exportation; a not exporting of commodities. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. No longer existing; inaccessible through loss or destruction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Its nonextant original was written on vellum G. B. Saul

a. Not extensile; incapable of being stretched. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nonane + -one, suffix denoting the third degree of unsaturation. ] (Chem.) 1. Any one of several metameric unsaturated hydrocarbons (C9H14) of the valylene series. [ archaic? ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any of several isomeric ketones (C9H18O) conceptually derived from nonane by substituting an oxygen for two hydrogen atoms on one of the non-terminal carbon atoms. [ PJC ]

n. [ Quinine + ketone. ] (Chem.) A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. [ Written also chinone, kinone. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chemical substance (C23H22O6) extracted from the root of the derris (Derris elliptica, Derris malaccensis, and other species), used in treatment of scabies and as an insecticide for external infestation by chiggers in human medicine, and in veterinary medicine for the treatment of infestations with fleas, ticks, and lice. [ PJC ]

n. [ Thienyl + ketone. ] (Chem.) A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO, by the action of aluminum chloride and carbonyl chloride on thiophene. [ 1913 Webster ]