From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v.0.48:        whatever is low, mean, degrading, or
dishonorable;       [1913 Webster]              Statues, with
winding ivy crowned, belong             To nobler poets for a
nobler song.    --Dryden.       [1913 Webster]        [1913
Webster]        distinguished from the masses by birth, station,
or title;       highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.
[1913 Webster]     Note: Noble is used in the formation of self-
explaining          [1913 Webster]        VIII of the periodic
table of elements, not combining with       other elements under
normal reaction conditions;       specifically, helium, neon,
argon, krypton,       xenon, or radon; also called inert gas.
called from their resistance to oxidation by air and to
dissolution by acids. Copper, mercury, aluminium,
palladium, rhodium, iridium, and osmium are sometimes
[1913 Webster]     Syn: Honorable; worthy; dignified; elevated;
exalted;         superior; subl