Category:Nod

Nod, v. i. Etym: [oe. nodden; cf. Ohg. kn, genuot, to shake, and e. Nudge.]

1. To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, Nodding plumes.

2. To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to Make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the Head; as, to nod at one.

3. To be drowsy or dull; to be careless. Nor is it homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

Nod Nod, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nodded; p. pr. & vb. n. Nodding.]

1. To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of Assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head.

2. To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.

3. To cause to bend. [poetic] By every wind that nods the mountain pine. Keats.

Nod Nod, n.

1. A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of Anything. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.

2. A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in Assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, Or a command. A look or a nod only ought to correct them [the children] when they Do amiss. Locke. Nations obey my word and wait my nod. Prior. The land of nod, sleep.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Nod - Exile; wandering; unrest, a name given to the country to which Cain fled (Genesis 4:16). It lay on the east of Eden.