2. Guilty; criminal. [R.] Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. Abp. Bramhall.
Syn.
— Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious;
mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See
Noisome.
— Nox"ious*ly, adv.
— Nox"ious*ness, n.
NOY
Noy, v. t. Etym: [See Annoy.]
Defn: To annoy; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Piers Plowman.
All that noyed his heavy spright. Spenser.
NOY
Noy, n.
Defn: That which annoys. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
NOYADE
No`yade", n. [F., fr. noyer to drown, L. necare to kill.]
Defn: A drowning of many persons at once, — a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.
NOYANCE
Noy"ance
Defn: , Annoyance. [Obs.] Spenser.