Nóvel. n.s. [nouvelle, French.]

1. A small tale, generally of love.

   Nothing of a foreign nature; like the trifling novels which Ariosto inserted in his poems. Dryden.

   Her mangl'd fame in barb'rous pastime lost,
   The coxcomb's novel and the drunkard's toast. Prior.

2. A law annexed to the code.

   By the civil law, no one was to be ordained a presbyter till he was thirty-five years of age: though by a later novel it was sufficient, if he was above thirty. Ayliffe's Par.