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‖ nodus|ˈnəʊdəs|
Pl. nodi.
[L. nōdus. Cf. F. nodus (16th c., Paré).]
†1. Path. A knotty swelling. = node n. 3 a. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 252 Nodus is a knotte, & þus comeþ in þe iȝe liddis. 1650J. F[rench] Chym. Dict. s.v., Nodi are hard tumours of the joints. 1672Phil. Trans. VII. 4062 Not long after his landing, he found a certain Nodus or hard lump in the very place whence this stone was cut. 1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey), Nodus or Node,..a kind of gummy Swelling, made by the settling of a gross Humour between the Bone and the Periosteum.
†2. Dialling. (See quot. and node n. 5.)
1668Moxon Mech. Dyalling 39 The point in the middle of this Glass we will mark A, and for distinction sake call it Nodus. Through this Nodus you must draw a Meridian Line. Ibid. Fasten a string just on the Nodus.
3. The base of a numerical system. rare—1.
1677Locke 28 Aug. in Ld. King Life & Lett. (Bohn) 73 Monsieur Bernier told me that the heathens of Hindoostan pretend to great antiquity,..that their nodus in their numbers is ten, as ours, and their circuit of days seven.
†4. (See nodulus, quot. 1688.) Obs.
5. A knotty point, a difficulty or complication.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., Nodus in Poetry, &c. 1763Blair Diss. in Ossian's Poems (1796) II. 300 We find..a Nodus, or intrigue in the poem. 1808Edin. Rev. XI. 369 Beleaguer'd and beset by what they call the nodus, or difficulty of his situation. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 126 The whole nodus may be more of a logical cobweb, than any actual material perplexity. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. li, Neither the Parliamentary Candidate Society nor any other power..seeing a worthy nodus for interference. |