NOWS

Noun

nows

plural of now

Anagrams

• Snow, owns, snow, sow'n, sown, wons

Source: Wiktionary

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NOW

Now, adv. Etym: [OE. nou, nu, AS. nu, nu; akin to D., OS., & OHG. nu, G. nu, nun, Icel., nu, Dan., Sw., & Goth. nu, L. nunc, Gr. nu, nu. *193. Cf. New.]

1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now. I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.

2. Very lately; not long ago. They that but now, for honor and for plate, Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. Waller.

3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to. The ship was now in the midst of the sea. Matt. xiv. 24.

4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor L'Estrange. Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is Shak. Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40. The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander. South. Now and again, now and then; occasionally.

– Now and now, again and again; repeatedly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

– Now and then, at one time and another; indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. "A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood." Drayton.

– Now now, at this very instant; precisely now. [Obs.] "Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this." J. Webster (1607).

– Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." Pope.

Now, a.

Definition: Existing at the present time; present. [R.] "Our now happiness." Glanvill.

Now, n.

Definition: The present time or moment; the present. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal now does ever last. Cowley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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