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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nonsuit  \Non"suit`\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Nonsuited};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Nonsuiting}.]  (Law) 
  To  determine,  adjudge,  or  record  (a  plaintiff)  as  having 
  dropped  his  suit,  upon  his  withdrawal  or  failure  to  follow  it 
  up  ``When  two  are  joined  in  a  writ,  and  one  is  nonsuited.'' 
  --Z.  Swift. 

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