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▪ I. nodding, vbl. n.|ˈnɒdɪŋ|
[f. nod v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb. Also = nod n.1 2 c.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. lix. 815 The harte calfe hyghte Hinnulus..& hath that name Hinnulus of..beckynge other noddynge. 1548Elyot, Nutatio, noddynge, as a mans head dooeth, whan he sytteth slepyng. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 91 What thing is it..That bringeth this busy blissing and noddyng? 1615G. Sandys Trav. 146 They pray silently with ridiculous and continual noddings of their heads. 1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. i. 56 Nodding to us is a gesture of invitation. 1668Dryden Even. Love ii. i, For all your noddings. and your mathematical grimaces. 1812L. Hunt in Exam. 19 Oct. 657/1 Mr. Sheridan..assures him, with a hearty nodding of the head.., that they all drank his health. 1844M. Howitt Own Story viii. 73 With sundry winks of his large eyes, and upward noddings of his chin. 1882Garden 11 Mar. 167/1 The constant nodding of the florets, even in the calmest weather, is delightful. 1970H. E. Roberts Third Ear 10/2 Nodding out, a drug stupor. 1972C. Weston Poor, Poor Ophelia (1973) xxiv. 149 He's high on something. Nodding, I think they call it.
b. Comb., esp. nodding acquaintance, a slight acquaintance (with a person), extending no further than recognition by a nod.
1711Addison Spect. No. 124 ⁋1 The most severe Reader makes Allowances for many Rests and Nodding-places in a Voluminous Writer. 1825H. Wilson Mem. (ed. 2) II. 108 Having only a sort of bowing, nodding acquaintance with him. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iv, Many with whom he had scarcely a nodding acquaintance. 1868Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xxi, I am on nodding terms with a meditative turncock. 1894D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 140 A group of men with whom I had a nodding acquaintance. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. viii. 122 Childhood is on nodding terms with the supernatural. 1969Times 22 July p. ii/6 Nobody volunteers that they are not at least on nodding terms with their hero. 1972H. C. Rae Shooting Gallery ii. 74 Three thousand students in this establishment. I know, on nodding terms, about forty of them. 1972Times 7 Aug. (Jamaica Suppl.) p. ii/5 A health care plan..should give many Jamaicans at least a nodding acquaintance with health services.
▪ II. nodding, ppl. a.|ˈnɒdɪŋ|
[f. nod v. + -ing2.]
1. That nods; esp. of plants, trees, etc.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 250, I know a banke..Where Oxslips and the nodding Violet growes. 1634Milton Comus 38 This drear Wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn..Passinger. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. x. 38 A Country Crown Of Fennel, and of nodding Lillies. 1700― Pal. & Arc. iii. 370 At length the nodding statue clash'd his arms. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 224 Crown'd with rough thickets, and a nodding wood. 1754Gray Progr. Poesy 12 The rocks and nodding groves. 1792R. Kerr tr. Linnæus's Anim. Kingd. 69 Nodding Monkey. 1820Shelley Ode Liberty iv, The nodding promontories, and blue isles, And cloud-like mountains. 1871Meredith H. Richmond III. 197 He collapsed in speech, and became what he used to call ‘one of the ordinary nodding men’.
b. Of the nature of nodding.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 909 Nodding movements of the head accompany these ‘Salaam convulsions’.
2. a. Swaying, inclining, tottering.
1693Southerne Maid's last Prayer ii. ii, Sure, Granger, thou lovest a nodding wall, that will bury thee in its ruins. 1715Pope Iliad ii. 18 Destruction hangs o'er yon devoted wall, And nodding Ilion waits the impending fall. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxviii, The tumbling down of nodding walls and heavy blocks of wood. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xlviii. (1856) 452 Nodding, pendulous, stalactitic hummocks were not unfrequent.
b. Drowsy, sleepy.
1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 38 So to order their lives as to have no need of a nodding justice.
3. Bot. (and Entom.) Bent or curved downward.
1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. 378 Nutans, nodding, the Top or Head bent downwards. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 160 Panicle nodding. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlvi. IV. 300 Nodding horn (Cornu nutans). When a horn bends forwards. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 232 Erica... Flowers usually nodding. 1886A. H. Church Food Grains Ind. 40 With..hairy leaves and a much divided nodding panicle.
b. In plant-names.
1789J. Pilkington View Derbysh. I. 451 Bidens cernua, Nodding Double-tooth. 1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 256 Nodding Bur Marigold. 1857A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 193 Nodding Trillium or Wake-Robin.
Hence ˈnoddingly adv.
1882in Ogilvie. 1885Clark Russell Strange Voy. II. vii. 110, I was gazing at the distant speck,..and noddingly wondering how far distant [etc.]. |