(botany) One of the spots upon a stem where buds and intercalary meristems occur, usually marking the end of a season's growth. / (computing theory) A node, in a tree, that has no children.

(historical) A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.

plural of non obstante

(law) A clause in old English statutes and letters patent, designating a licence from the Crown to do a thing notwithstanding any laws to the contrary.

(law) The response of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county.

At the present moment. / Immediately.

(law) A judgement entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he/she fails to appear to prosecute.

(law) A defence in contract law that allows a signing party to escape performance of an agreement that is fundamentally different from what they intended to execute or sign.

(obsolete) An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty.

(idiomatic) To an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.