Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Nome"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nim \Nim\, v. t. [imp. {Nam}or {Nimmed}; p. p. {Nomen}or
{Nome}.] [AS. niman. [root] 7. Cf. {Nimble}.]
To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.]
This canon it in his hand nam. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nome \Nome\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to deal out, distribute.]
1. A province or political division, as of modern Greece or
ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.
2. Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nome \Nome\, n. [Cf. {Binomial}.] (Alg.) [Obs.]
See {Term}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nome \Nome\, Nomen \No"men\, obs.
p. p. of {Nim}. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Nome
n : a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward
Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at
the beginning of the 20th century [syn: {Nome}]
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