The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Novice \Nov"ice\, n. [F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from
   novus new. See New, and cf. Novitious.]
   1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling;
      one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a
      beginner; a tyro.
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            I am young; a novice in the trade.    --Dryden.
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   2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted
      to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6.
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   3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks
      or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley.
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            No poore cloisterer, nor no novys.    --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Novice \Nov"ice\, a.
   Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Novice, TX (city, FIPS 52668)
  Location: 31.98746 N, 99.62494 W
  Population (1990): 183 (101 housing units)
  Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 79538

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "novice":
   abbess, abecedarian, alphabetarian, amateur, apprentice,
   articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, canoness, catechumen,
   clergywoman, colt, conventual, cub, deb, debutant, entrant,
   fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee,
   infant, initiate, lady superior, learner, mother superior,
   neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novitiate, nun, postulant,
   prentice, prioress, probationer, probationist, proselyte, punk,
   raw recruit, recruit, religieuse, rookie, secular canoness, sister,
   student, superioress, tenderfoot, the reverend mother, trainee,
   tyro, undergraduate