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▪ I. ‖ nox1|nɒks|
[L.]
Night. (Chiefly poet.)
1567Turberv. Ovid's Ep. Q viij, Forging dolefull plaints that Nox hath runne her race. a1593Greene Alphonsus iv, Darksome Nox had spread about the earth Her blackish mantle. 1810Sim in Harp of Perthshire (1893) 95 Nox had spread his sable sark Owre the Creation. 1844Carlyle Let. in Westm. Gaz. (1901) 12 Aug., All books ever written upon him..belong to the realm of Nox and Erebus.
▪ II. † nox2
obs. form (see N 3) of ox.
a1400–50Alexander 4744 As a nox quen he lawes. c1420Chron. Vilod. 1912 Hurre thouȝt..þat a nox went þreyȝe abouȝte alle þat. 1483Cath. Angl. 49/1 A Buse for a noxe. |