These are the meanings of the letters NOUNIEST when you unscramble them.
- intones (unknown)
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- neuston (unknown)
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- Nonsuit (a.)
Nonsuited.
- Nonsuit (n.)
A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case.
- Nonsuit (v. t.)
To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up.
- Tension (a.)
A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.
- Tension (a.)
Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.
- Tension (a.)
Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
- Tension (a.)
The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
- Tension (a.)
The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.
- Tension (a.)
The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.
- Tension (a.)
The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.
- Tunnies (pl. )
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