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N Dictionary N - noun A measure of space equal to half an M (or em); an en.
Na Dictionary N - adjective & adverb No, not. See No.
Nab Dictionary N - noun The summit of an eminence.
Nabbed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nab.
Nabbing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nab.
Nabit Dictionary N - noun Pulverized sugar candy.
Nabk Dictionary N - noun The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe.
Nabob Dictionary N - noun A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.
Nacarat Dictionary N - noun A pale red color, with a cast of orange.
Nacker Dictionary N - noun See Nacre.
Nacre Dictionary N - noun A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. Written also nacker and naker. See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.
Nacreous Dictionary N - adjective Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.
Nad Dictionary N - Alt. of Nadde.
Nadde Dictionary N - Had not.
Nadder Dictionary N - noun An adder.
Nadir Dictionary N - noun That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.
Naenia Dictionary N - noun See Nenia.
Naeve Dictionary N - noun A naevus.
Naevoid Dictionary N - adjective Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.
Naevose Dictionary N - adjective Spotted; frecled.
Naevi Dictionary N - pleural of Navus.
Navus Dictionary N - noun A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; - usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.
Nag Dictionary N - noun A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse.
Nagged Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nag.
Nagging Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nag.
Naggy Dictionary N - adjective Irritable; touchy.
Nagor Dictionary N - noun A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).
Nagyagite Dictionary N - noun A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold.
Naiad Dictionary N - noun A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.
Naiant Dictionary N - adjective See Natant.
Naid Dictionary N - noun Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta.
Naif Dictionary N - adjective Having a true natural luster without being cut; - applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
Naik Dictionary N - noun A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.
Nail Dictionary N - noun the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
Nailed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nail.
Nailing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nail.
Nailbrush Dictionary N - noun A brush for cleaning the nails.
Nailer Dictionary N - noun One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
Naileress Dictionary N - noun A women who makes nailes.
Naileries Dictionary N - pleural of Nailery.
Nailery Dictionary N - A manufactory where nails are made.
Nail-headed Dictionary N - adjective Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.
Nailless Dictionary N - adjective Without nails; having no nails.
Nainsook Dictionary N - noun A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.
Nais Dictionary N - noun See Naiad.
Naissant Dictionary N - adjective Same as Jessant.
Naive Dictionary N - adjective Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.
Naively Dictionary N - adverb In a naive manner.
Naivete Dictionary N - noun Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.
Naivety Dictionary N - noun Naivete.
Nake Dictionary N - v.t. To make naked.
Naked Dictionary N - adjective Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.
Nakedly Dictionary N - adverb In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.
Nakedness Dictionary N - noun The condition of being naked.
Naker Dictionary N - noun Same as Nacre.
Nakoo Dictionary N - noun The gavial.
Nale Dictionary N - noun Ale; also, an alehouse.
Nall Dictionary N - noun An awl.
Nam Dictionary N - Am not.
Namable Dictionary N - adjective Capable of being named.
Namation Dictionary N - noun A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding.
Namaycush Dictionary N - noun A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.
Namby-pamby Dictionary N - noun Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
Name Dictionary N - noun The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.
Named Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Name.
Naming Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Name.
Nameless Dictionary N - adjective Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.
Namelessly Dictionary N - adverb In a nameless manner.
Namely Dictionary N - adverb By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly.
Namer Dictionary N - noun One who names, or calls by name.
Namesake Dictionary N - noun One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
Namo Dictionary N - adverb No more.
Nan Dictionary N - inerj. Anan.
Nandine Dictionary N - noun An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.
Nandou Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nandu.
Nandu Dictionary N - noun Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. See Rhea.
Nankeen Dictionary N - noun A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.
Nanny Dictionary N - noun A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.
Nannyberry Dictionary N - noun See Sheepberry.
Nanpie Dictionary N - noun The magpie.
Naos Dictionary N - noun A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.
Napped Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nap.
Napping Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nap.
Nap Dictionary N - intransitive verb To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
Nape Dictionary N - noun The back part of the neck.
Nape-crest Dictionary N - noun An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.
Naperies Dictionary N - pleural of Napery.
Napery Dictionary N - noun Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general.
Napha water Dictionary N - A perfume distilled from orange flowers.
Naphew Dictionary N - noun See Navew.
Naphtha Dictionary N - noun The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, - used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc.
Naphthalate Dictionary N - noun A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate.
Naphthalene Dictionary N - noun A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline.
Naphthalenic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to , or derived from, naphthalene; - used specifically to designate a yellow crystalline substance, called naphthalenic acid and also hydroxy quinone, and obtained from certain derivatives of naphthol.
Naphthalic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; - used specifically to denote any one of a series of acids derived from naphthalene, and called naphthalene acids.
Naphthalidine Dictionary N - noun Same as Naphthylamine.
Naphthalin Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Naphthaline.
Naphthaline Dictionary N - noun See Naphthalene.
Naphthalize Dictionary N - verb transitive To mingle, saturate, or impregnate, with naphtha.
Naphthazarin Dictionary N - noun A dyestuff, resembling alizarin, obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green, metallic luster; - called also naphthalizarin.
Naphthene Dictionary N - noun A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.
Naphthide Dictionary N - noun A compound of naphthalene or its radical with a metallic element; as, mercuric naphthide.
Naphthoic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; - used specifically to designate any one of a series of carboxyl derivatives, called naphthoic acids.
Naphthol Dictionary N - noun Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor.
Naphthoquinone Dictionary N - noun A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid.
Naphthyl Dictionary N - noun A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene.
Naphthylamine Dictionary N - noun One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids.
Napierian Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Naperian.
Naperian Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper.
Napier's bones Dictionary N - Alt. of Napier's rods.
Napier's rods Dictionary N - A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; - a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.
Napiform Dictionary N - adjective Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below.
Napkin Dictionary N - noun A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.
Napless Dictionary N - adjective Without nap; threadbare.
Naples yellow Dictionary N - See under Yellow.
Napoleon Dictionary N - noun A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.
Napoleonic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Napoleon I., or his family; resembling, or having the qualities of, Napoleon I.
Napoleonist Dictionary N - noun A supporter of the dynasty of the Napoleons.
Nappe Dictionary N - noun Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.
Nappiness Dictionary N - noun The quality of having a nap; abundance of nap, as on cloth.
Nappy Dictionary N - adjective Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.
Nappies Dictionary N - pleural of Nappy.
Nap-taking Dictionary N - noun A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack.
Napu Dictionary N - noun A very small chevrotain (Tragulus Javanicus), native of Java. It is about the size of a hare, and is noted for its agility in leaping. Called also Java musk deer, pygmy musk deer, and deerlet.
Napus Dictionary N - noun A kind of turnip. See Navew.
Narceine Dictionary N - noun An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.
Narcissine Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Narcissus.
Narcissuses Dictionary N - pleural of Narcissus.
Narcissus Dictionary N - noun A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.
Narcosis Dictionary N - noun Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.
Narcotic Dictionary N - adjective Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
Narcotical Dictionary N - adjective Narcotic.
Narcotine Dictionary N - noun An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; - called also narcotia.
Narcotinic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to narcotine.
Narcotism Dictionary N - noun Narcosis; the state of being narcotized.
Narcotized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Narcotize.
Narcotizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Narcotize.
Narcotize Dictionary N - verb transitive To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
Nard Dictionary N - noun An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.
Nardine Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard.
Nardoo Dictionary N - noun An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.
Nare Dictionary N - noun A nostril.
Nares Dictionary N - noun plural The nostrils or nasal openings, - the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
Nargile Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nargileh.
Nargileh Dictionary N - noun An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.
Narica Dictionary N - noun The brown coati. See Coati.
Nariform Dictionary N - adjective Formed like the nose.
Narine Dictionary N - adjective Of or belonging to the nostrils.
Narrable Dictionary N - adjective Capable of being narrated or told.
Narragansetts Dictionary N - noun plural A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.
Narrated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Narrate.
Narrating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Narrate.
Narrate Dictionary N - verb transitive To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.
Narration Dictionary N - noun The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
Narrative Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
Narratively Dictionary N - adverb In the style of narration.
Narrator Dictionary N - noun One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.
Narratory Dictionary N - adjective Giving an account of events; narrative; as, narratory letters.
Narre Dictionary N - adjective Nearer.
Narrow Dictionary N - superlative Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
Narrows Dictionary N - pleural of Narrow.
Narrowed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Narrow.
Narrowing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Narrow.
Narrower Dictionary N - noun One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.
Narrowly Dictionary N - adverb With little breadth; in a narrow manner.
Narrow-minded Dictionary N - adjective Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean.
Narrowness Dictionary N - noun The condition or quality of being narrow.
Nart Dictionary N - Art not.
Narthex Dictionary N - noun A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel.
Narwal Dictionary N - noun See Narwhal.
Narwe Dictionary N - adjective Narrow.
Narwhal Dictionary N - noun An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.
Nas Dictionary N - Was not.
Nasal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nose.
Nasality Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being nasal.
Nasalization Dictionary N - noun The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.
Nasalized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nasalize.
Nasalizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nasalize.
Nasalize Dictionary N - verb transitive To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.
Nasally Dictionary N - adverb In a nasal manner; by the nose.
Nascal Dictionary N - noun A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.
Nascency Dictionary N - noun State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.
Nascent Dictionary N - adjective Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
Naseberry Dictionary N - noun A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla.
Nash Dictionary N - adjective Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.
Nasicornous Dictionary N - adjective Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.
Nasiform Dictionary N - adjective Having the shape of a nose.
Nasion Dictionary N - noun The middle point of the nasofrontal suture.
Naso- Dictionary N - A combining form denoting pertaining to, or connected with, the nose; as, nasofrontal.
Nasobuccal Dictionary N - adjective Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate.
Nasofrontal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.
Nasolachrymal Dictionary N - adjective Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.
Nasopalatal Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nasopalatine.
Nasopalatine Dictionary N - adjective Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.
Nasopharyngeal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.
Nasoseptal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the internasal septum.
Nasoturbinal Dictionary N - adjective Connected with, or near, both the turbinal and the nasal bones; as, the nasalturbinal bone, made up of the uppermost lammelae of the ethmoturbinal, and sometimes united with the nasal.
Nassas Dictionary N - pleural of Nassa.
NassAe Dictionary N - pleural of Nassa.
Nassa Dictionary N - noun Any species of marine gastropods, of the genera Nassa, Tritia, and other allied genera of the family Nassidae; a dog whelk. See Illust. under Gastropoda.
Nastily Dictionary N - adverb In a nasty manner.
Nastiness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.
Nasturtion Dictionary N - noun Same as Nasturtium.
Nasturtium Dictionary N - noun A genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress. They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds, and have a pungent biting taste.
Nasty Dictionary N - superlative Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
Nasute Dictionary N - adjective Having a nice sense of smell.
Nasutness Dictionary N - noun Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness.
Nat Dictionary N - adverb Not.
Natal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native.
Natalitial Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Natalitious.
Natalitious Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to one's birth or birthday, or one's nativity.
Nataloin Dictionary N - noun A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.
Natal plum Dictionary N - The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandiflora).
Natals Dictionary N - noun plural One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.
Natant Dictionary N - adjective Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.
Natantly Dictionary N - adverb In a floating manner; swimmingly.
Natation Dictionary N - noun The act of floating on the water; swimming.
Natatores Dictionary N - noun plural The swimming birds.
Natatorial Dictionary N - adjective Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds.
Natatorious Dictionary N - adjective Adapted for swimming; - said of the legs of certain insects.
Natatorium Dictionary N - noun A swimming bath.
Natatory Dictionary N - adjective Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.
Natch Dictionary N - noun The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.
Natchez Dictionary N - noun plural A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.
Natchnee Dictionary N - noun An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant.
Nates Dictionary N - noun plural The buttocks.
Nath Dictionary N - hath not.
Nathless Dictionary N - conjecture Nevertheless.
Nathmore Dictionary N - adverb Not the more; never the more.
Naticas Dictionary N - pleural of Natica.
NaticAe Dictionary N - pleural of Natica.
Natica Dictionary N - noun Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.
Naticoid Dictionary N - adjective Like or belonging to Natica, or the family Naticidae.
Nation Dictionary N - noun A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
National Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.
Nationalism Dictionary N - noun The state of being national; national attachment; nationality.
Nationalist Dictionary N - noun One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.
Nationalities Dictionary N - pleural of Nationality.
Nationality Dictionary N - noun The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.
Nationalization Dictionary N - noun The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.
Nationalized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nationalize.
Nationalizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nationalize.
Nationalize Dictionary N - verb transitive To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
Nationally Dictionary N - adverb In a national manner or way; as a nation.
Nationalness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being national; nationality.
Native Dictionary N - adjective Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
Natively Dictionary N - adverb By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
Nativeness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being native.
Nativism Dictionary N - noun The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.
Nativist Dictionary N - noun An advocate of nativism.
Nativistic Dictionary N - adjective Relating to nativism.
Nativies Dictionary N - pleural of Nativity.
Nativity Dictionary N - noun The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.
Natka Dictionary N - adjective A species of shrike.
Natrium Dictionary N - noun The technical name for sodium.
Natrolite Dictionary N - noun A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.
Natron Dictionary N - noun Native sodium carbonate.
Natter Dictionary N - intransitive verb To find fault; to be peevish.
Natterjack Dictionary N - noun A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.
Natty Dictionary N - adjective Neat; tidy; spruce.
Natural Dictionary N - adjective Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
Naturalism Dictionary N - noun A state of nature; conformity to nature.
Naturalist Dictionary N - noun One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.
Naturalistic Dictionary N - adjective Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
Naturality Dictionary N - noun Nature; naturalness.
Naturalization Dictionary N - noun The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
Naturalized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Naturalize.
Naturalizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Naturalize.
Naturalize Dictionary N - verb transitive To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
Naturally Dictionary N - adverb In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
Naturalness Dictionary N - noun The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
Nature Dictionary N - noun The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.
Natured Dictionary N - adjective Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; - used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
Natureless Dictionary N - adjective Not in accordance with nature; unnatural.
Naturism Dictionary N - noun The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.
Naturist Dictionary N - noun One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism.
Naturity Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being produced by nature.
Naturize Dictionary N - verb transitive To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature.
Naufrage Dictionary N - noun Shipwreck; ruin.
Naufragous Dictionary N - adjective causing shipwreck.
Naught Dictionary N - adverb Nothing.
Naughtily Dictionary N - adverb In a naughty manner; wickedly; perversely.
Naughtiness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.
Naughtly Dictionary N - adverb Naughtily; wrongly.
Naughty Dictionary N - superlative Having little or nothing.
Naumachy Dictionary N - noun A naval battle; esp., a mock sea fight.
Nauplii Dictionary N - pleural of Nauplius.
Nauplius Dictionary N - noun A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.
Nauropometer Dictionary N - noun An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.
Nauscopy Dictionary N - noun The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.
Nausea Dictionary N - noun Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
Nauseant Dictionary N - noun A substance which produces nausea.
Nauseated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nauseate.
Nauseating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nauseate.
Nauseate Dictionary N - intransitive verb To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
Nauseation Dictionary N - noun The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
Nauseative Dictionary N - adjective Causing nausea; nauseous.
Nauseous Dictionary N - adjective Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.
Nautch Dictionary N - noun An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.
Nautic Dictionary N - adjective Nautical.
Nautical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Nautically Dictionary N - adverb In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affairs.
Nautiform Dictionary N - adjective Shaped like the hull of a ship.
Nautilite Dictionary N - noun A fossil nautilus.
Nautiloid Dictionary N - adjective Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell.
Nautiluses Dictionary N - pleural of Nautilus.
Nautili Dictionary N - pleural of Nautilus.
Nautilus Dictionary N - noun The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.
Navajoes Dictionary N - noun plural A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona, allied to the Apaches. They are now largely engaged in agriculture.
Naval Dictionary N - adjective Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc.
Navals Dictionary N - noun plural Naval affairs.
Navarch Dictionary N - noun The commander of a fleet.
Navarchy Dictionary N - noun Nautical skill or experience.
Navarrese Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Navarre.
Nave Dictionary N - noun The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; - called also hub or hob.
Navel Dictionary N - noun A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
Navel-string Dictionary N - noun The umbilical cord.
Navelwort Dictionary N - noun A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; - also called pennywort, and kidneywort.
Navew Dictionary N - noun A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica.
Navicular Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
Navigability Dictionary N - noun The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.
Navigable Dictionary N - adjective Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.
Navigated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Navigate.
Navigating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Navigate.
Navigate Dictionary N - intransitive verb To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
Navigation Dictionary N - noun The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
Navigator Dictionary N - noun One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator.
Navigerous Dictionary N - adjective Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels.
Navies Dictionary N - pleural of Navvy.
Navvy Dictionary N - noun Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Navy Dictionary N - noun A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.
Nawab Dictionary N - noun A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.
Nawl Dictionary N - noun An awl.
Nay Dictionary N - adverb No; - a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
Nays Dictionary N - pleural of Nay.
Nayaur Dictionary N - noun A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii), native of Nepaul and Thibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck.
Nayt Dictionary N - verb transitive To refuse; to deny.
Nayward Dictionary N - noun The negative side.
Nayword Dictionary N - noun A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.
Nazarene Dictionary N - noun A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; - a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians.
Nazarite Dictionary N - noun A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.
Nazariteship Dictionary N - noun The state of a Nazarite.
Nazaritic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a Nazarite, or to Nazarites.
Nazaritism Dictionary N - noun The vow and practice of a Nazarite.
Naze Dictionary N - noun A promotory or headland.
Nazirite Dictionary N - noun A Nazarite.
Ne Dictionary N - adverb Not; never.
Neaf Dictionary N - noun See 2d Neif.
Neal Dictionary N - verb transitive To anneal.
Neap Dictionary N - noun The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
Neaped Dictionary N - adjective Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; - called also beneaped.
Neapolitan Dictionary N - adjective Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy.
Near Dictionary N - adverb At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh.
Neared Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Near.
Nearing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Near.
Nearctic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.
Nearhand Dictionary N - adjective & adverb Near; near at hand; closely.
Near-legged Dictionary N - adjective Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling.
Nearly Dictionary N - adverb In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
Nearness Dictionary N - noun The state or quality of being near; - used in the various senses of the adjective.
Nearsighted Dictionary N - adjective Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted.
Nearsightedness Dictionary N - noun See Myopic, and Myopia.
Neat Dictionary N - noun singular & plural Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
'Neath Dictionary N - preparticle & adverb An abbreviation of Beneath.
Neatherd Dictionary N - noun A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd.
Neathouse Dictionary N - noun A building for the shelter of neat cattle.
Neatify Dictionary N - verb transitive To make neat.
Neatly Dictionary N - adverb In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.
neatness Dictionary N - noun The state or quality of being neat.
Neatress Dictionary N - noun A woman who takes care of cattle.
Neb Dictionary N - noun The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
Nebalia Dictionary N - noun A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.).
Neb-neb Dictionary N - noun Same as Bablh.
Nebulae Dictionary N - pleural of Nebula.
Nebula Dictionary N - noun A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.
Nebular Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
Nebulated Dictionary N - adjective Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.
nebulation Dictionary N - noun The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark.
Nebule Dictionary N - noun A little cloud; a cloud.
Nebuly Dictionary N - adjective Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; - said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.
Nebulization Dictionary N - noun The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.
Nebulize Dictionary N - verb transitive To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
Nebulizer Dictionary N - noun An atomizer.
Nebulose Dictionary N - adjective Nebulous; cloudy.
Nebulosity Dictionary N - noun The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness.
Nebulous Dictionary N - adjective Cloudy; hazy; misty.
Necessarian Dictionary N - noun An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.
Necessarianism Dictionary N - noun The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism.
Necessarily Dictionary N - adverb In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.
Necessariness Dictionary N - noun The quality of being necessary.
Necessary Dictionary N - adjective Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Necessaries Dictionary N - pleural of Necessary.
Necessitarian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; - opposed to libertarian.
Necessitarianism Dictionary N - noun The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism.
Necessitated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Necessitate.
Necessitating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Necessitate.
Necessitate Dictionary N - verb transitive To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
Necessitattion Dictionary N - noun The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion.
Necessitied Dictionary N - adjective In a state of want; necessitous.
Necessitous Dictionary N - adjective Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
Necessitude Dictionary N - noun Necessitousness; want.
Necessities Dictionary N - pleural of Necessity.
Necessity Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
Neck Dictionary N - noun The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.
Necked Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Neck.
Necking Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Neck.
Neckar nut Dictionary N - See Nicker nut.
Neckband Dictionary N - noun A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.
Neckcloth Dictionary N - noun A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
Neckerchief Dictionary N - noun A kerchief for the neck; - called also neck handkerchief.
Necklace Dictionary N - noun A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.
necklaced Dictionary N - adjective Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace.
neckland Dictionary N - noun A neck of land.
necklet Dictionary N - noun A necklace.
Neckmold Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Neckmould.
Neckmould Dictionary N - noun A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital.
Neckplate Dictionary N - noun See Gorget, 1 and 2.
Necktie Dictionary N - noun A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.
Neckwear Dictionary N - noun A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.
Neckweed Dictionary N - noun An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.
Necrobiosis Dictionary N - noun The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy.
Necrobiotic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis.
Necrolatry Dictionary N - noun The worship of the dead; manes worship.
Necrolite Dictionary N - noun Same as Necronite.
Necrologic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Necrological.
Necrological Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.
Necrologist Dictionary N - noun One who gives an account of deaths.
Necrologies Dictionary N - pleural of Necrology.
Necrology Dictionary N - noun An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.
Necromancer Dictionary N - noun One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
Necromancy Dictionary N - noun The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art.
Necromantic Dictionary N - noun Conjuration.
Necromantical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy.
Necronite Dictionary N - noun Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor.
Necrophagan Dictionary N - adjective Eating carrion.
Necrophagous Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.
Necrophobia Dictionary N - noun An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.
Necrophore Dictionary N - noun Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; - called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.
Necropolises Dictionary N - pleural of Necropolis.
Necropolis Dictionary N - noun A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Necropsy Dictionary N - noun A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.
Necroscopic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Necroscopical.
Necroscopical Dictionary N - adjective Or or relating to post-mortem examinations.
Necrose Dictionary N - verb transitive & intransitive To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis.
Necrosed Dictionary N - adjective Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone.
Necrosis Dictionary N - noun Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.
Necrotic Dictionary N - adjective Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.
Nectar Dictionary N - noun The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
Nectareal Dictionary N - adjective Nectareous.
Nectarean Dictionary N - adjective Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.
Nectared Dictionary N - adjective Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar.
Nectareous Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling nectar; delicious; nectarean.
Nectarial Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.
Nectaried Dictionary N - adjective Having a nectary.
Nectariferous Dictionary N - adjective Secreting nectar; - said of blossoms or their parts.
Nectarine Dictionary N - adjective Nectareous.
Nectarized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nectarize.
Nectarizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nectarize.
Nectarize Dictionary N - verb transitive To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten.
Nectarous Dictionary N - adjective Nectareous.
Nectaries Dictionary N - pleural of Nectary.
Nectary Dictionary N - noun That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.
Nectocalyces Dictionary N - pleural of Nectocalyx.
Nectocalyx Dictionary N - noun The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.
Nectosac Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nectosack.
Nectosack Dictionary N - noun The cavity of a nectocalyx.
Nectostem Dictionary N - noun That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.
Nedder Dictionary N - noun An adder.
Neddies Dictionary N - pleural of Neddy.
Neddy Dictionary N - noun A pet name for a donkey.
Nee Dictionary N - particle p., feminine Born; - a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Stael, nee Necker.
Need Dictionary N - noun A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
Needed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Need.
Needing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Need.
Needer Dictionary N - noun One who needs anything.
Needful Dictionary N - adjective Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
Needily Dictionary N - adverb In a needy condition or manner; necessarily.
Neediness Dictionary N - noun The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
Needle Dictionary N - noun A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, - used in sewing.
Needlebook Dictionary N - noun A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
Needlecase Dictionary N - noun A case to keep needles.
Needlefish Dictionary N - noun The European great pipefich (Siphostoma, / Syngnathus, acus); - called also earl, and tanglefish.
needlefuls Dictionary N - pleural of needleful.
needleful Dictionary N - noun As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.
Needle-pointed Dictionary N - adjective Pointed as needles.
Needler Dictionary N - noun One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles.
Needless Dictionary N - adjective Having no need.
Needlestone Dictionary N - noun Natrolite; - called also needle zeolite.
Needlewomen Dictionary N - pleural of Needlewoman.
Needlewoman Dictionary N - noun A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
Needlework Dictionary N - noun Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.
Needly Dictionary N - adjective Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard.
Needment Dictionary N - noun Something needed or wanted.
Needs Dictionary N - adverb Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; - often with must, and equivalent to of need.
Needscost Dictionary N - adverb Of necessity.
Needsly Dictionary N - adverb Of necessity.
Needy Dictionary N - superlative Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
Neeld Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Neele.
Neele Dictionary N - noun A needle.
Neelghau Dictionary N - noun See Nylghau.
Neem tree Dictionary N - An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and M. Azedarach. See Margosa.
Neer Dictionary N - adverb & adjective Nearer.
Ne'er Dictionary N - adverb a contraction of Never.
Neesed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Neese.
Neesing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Neese.
Neese Dictionary N - intransitive verb To sneeze.
Ne exeat Dictionary N - A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree.
Nef Dictionary N - noun The nave of a church.
Nefand Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nefandous.
Nefandous Dictionary N - adjective Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.
Nefarious Dictionary N - adverb Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Nefasch Dictionary N - noun Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.
Nefast Dictionary N - adjective Wicked.
Negation Dictionary N - adverb The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; - the opposite of affirmation.
Negative Dictionary N - adjective Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; - opposed to affirmative.
Negatived Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Negative.
Negativing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Negative.
Negatively Dictionary N - adverb In a negative manner; with or by denial.
Negativeness Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Negativity.
Negativity Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being negative.
Negatory Dictionary N - adjective Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative.
Neginoth Dictionary N - noun plural Stringed instruments.
Neglected Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Neglect.
Neglecting Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Neglect.
Neglect Dictionary N - adverb Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
Neglectedness Dictionary N - noun The state of being neglected.
Neglecter Dictionary N - noun One who neglects.
Neglectful Dictionary N - adjective Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent.
Neglectingly Dictionary N - adverb Carelessly; heedlessly.
Neglection Dictionary N - noun The state of being negligent; negligence.
Neglective Dictionary N - adjective Neglectful.
Negligee Dictionary N - noun An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.
Negligence Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
Negligent Dictionary N - adjective Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.
Negligently Dictionary N - adverb In a negligent manner.
Negligible Dictionary N - adjective That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration.
Negoce Dictionary N - noun Business; occupation.
Negotiability Dictionary N - noun The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.
Negotiable Dictionary N - adjective Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
Negotiant Dictionary N - noun A negotiator.
Negotiate Dictionary N - intransitive verb To transact business; to carry on trade.
Negotiated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Negotiate.
Negotiating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Negotiate.
Negotiation Dictionary N - noun The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
Negotiator Dictionary N - noun One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts.
Negotiatory Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to negotiation.
Negotiatrix Dictionary N - noun A woman who negotiates.
Negotiosity Dictionary N - noun The state of being busy; multitude of business.
Negotious Dictionary N - adjective Very busy; attentive to business; active.
Negotiousness Dictionary N - noun The state of being busily occupied; activity.
Negresses Dictionary N - pleural of Negress.
Negress Dictionary N - noun A black woman; a female negro.
Negrita Dictionary N - noun A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.
Negritic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes.
Negritos Dictionary N - noun plural A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.
Negroes Dictionary N - pleural of Negro.
Negro Dictionary N - noun A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.
Negroid Dictionary N - adjective Characteristic of the negro.
Negroloid Dictionary N - adjective See Negroid.
Negus Dictionary N - noun A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; - so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
Nehiloth Dictionary N - noun plural A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.
Nehushtan Dictionary N - noun A thing of brass; - the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.
Neif Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Neife.
Neife Dictionary N - noun A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf.
Neighed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Neigh.
Neighing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Neigh.
Neigh Dictionary N - intransitive verb To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.
Neighbor Dictionary N - noun A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
Neighbored Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of neighbor.
Neighboring Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of neighbor.
Neighborhood Dictionary N - noun The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
Neighborliness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being neighborly.
Neighborly Dictionary N - adjective Apropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly.
Neighborship Dictionary N - noun The state of being neighbors.
Neishout Dictionary N - noun The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.
Neither Dictionary N - adjective Not either; not the one or the other.
Nelumbo Dictionary N - noun A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, N. speciosa.
Nemaline Dictionary N - adjective Having the form of threads; fibrous.
Nemalite Dictionary N - noun A fibrous variety of brucite.
Nematelmia Dictionary N - noun plural Same as Nemathelminthes.
Nemathecia Dictionary N - pleural of Nemathecium.
Nemathecium Dictionary N - noun A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.
Nemthelminthes Dictionary N - noun plural Alt. of Nematelminthes.
Nematelminthes Dictionary N - noun plural An ordr of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms.
Nemato- Dictionary N - A combining form from Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread.
Nematoblast Dictionary N - noun A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
Nematocalyces Dictionary N - pleural of Nematocalyx.
Nematocalyx Dictionary N - noun One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.
Nematocera Dictionary N - noun plural A suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennae, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; - called also Nemocera.
Nematocyst Dictionary N - noun A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso.
Nematode Dictionary N - adjective & noun Same as Nematoid.
Nematogene Dictionary N - noun One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; - opposed to rhombogene.
Nematognath Dictionary N - noun one of the Nematognathi.
Nematognathi Dictionary N - noun plural An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.
Nematoid Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the Nematoidea.
Nematoidea Dictionary N - noun plural An order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. Called also Nematodea, and Nematoda.
Nematoidean Dictionary N - adjective & noun Nematoid.
Nematophora Dictionary N - noun plural Same as Coelenterata.
Nemean Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.
Nemetean Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.
Nemertes Dictionary N - noun A genus of nemertina.
Nemertian Dictionary N - adjective & noun Nemertean.
Nemertid Dictionary N - adjective & noun Nemertean.
Nemertida Dictionary N - noun plural Nemertina.
Nemertina Dictionary N - noun plural An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; - called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela.
Nemesis Dictionary N - noun The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.
Nemophilist Dictionary N - noun One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
Nemophily Dictionary N - noun Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods.
Nemoral Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a wood or grove.
Nemorous Dictionary N - adjective Woody.
Nempne Dictionary N - verb To name or call.
Nempt Dictionary N - past participle Called; named.
Nems Dictionary N - noun The ichneumon.
Nenia Dictionary N - noun A funeral song; an elegy.
Nenuphar Dictionary N - noun The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.
Neo- Dictionary N - A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; - contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.
Neocarida Dictionary N - noun plural The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.
Neocene Dictionary N - adjective More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.
Neo-Christianity Dictionary N - noun Rationalism.
Neocomian Dictionary N - noun A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.
Neocosmic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history.
Neocracy Dictionary N - noun Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.
Neodamode Dictionary N - noun In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service.
Neodymium Dictionary N - noun An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140.8.
Neogaean Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.
Neogamist Dictionary N - noun A person recently married.
Neogen Dictionary N - noun An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.
Neography Dictionary N - noun A new method or system of writing.
Neo-Latin Dictionary N - adjective Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.
Neolithic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.
Neologian Dictionary N - adjective Neologic; neological.
Neologianism Dictionary N - noun Neologism.
Neologic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Neological.
Neological Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to neology; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines.
Neologically Dictionary N - adverb In a neological manner.
Neologism Dictionary N - noun The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
Neologist Dictionary N - noun One who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language.
Neologistic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Neologistical.
Neologistical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to neology; neological.
Neologization Dictionary N - noun The act or process of neologizing.
Neologize Dictionary N - intransitive verb To introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words.
Neology Dictionary N - noun The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.
Neomenia Dictionary N - noun The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.
Neomenoidea Dictionary N - noun plural A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.
Neomorph Dictionary N - noun A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.
Neonism Dictionary N - noun Neologism.
Neonomian Dictionary N - noun One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.
Neonomianism Dictionary N - noun The doctrines or belief of the neonomians.
Neophyte Dictionary N - noun A new convert or proselyte; - a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.
Neoplasia Dictionary N - noun Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.
Neoplasm Dictionary N - noun A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.
Neoplastic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.
Neoplasty Dictionary N - noun Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.
Neoplatonic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.
Neoplatonician Dictionary N - noun A neoplatonist.
Neoplatonism Dictionary N - noun A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.
Neoplatonist Dictionary N - noun One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.
Neorama Dictionary N - noun A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within.
Neossine Dictionary N - noun The substance constituting the edible bird's nest.
Neossology Dictionary N - noun The study of young birds.
Neoteric Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Neoterical.
Neoterical Dictionary N - adjective Recent in origin; modern; new.
Neoterically Dictionary N - adverb Recently; newly.
Neoterism Dictionary N - noun An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.
Neoterist Dictionary N - noun One ho introduces new word/ or phrases.
Neoterized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Neoterize.
Neoterize Dictionary N - intransitive verb To innovate; to coin or introduce new words.
Neotropical Dictionary N - adjective Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.
Neozoic Dictionary N - adjective More recent than the Paleozoic, - that is, including the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
Nep Dictionary N - noun Catnip.
Nepa Dictionary N - noun A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; - called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.
Nepaulese Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan.
Nepenthe Dictionary N - noun A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; - by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting.
Nepenthes Dictionary N - noun Same as Nepenthe.
Nepeta Dictionary N - noun A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
Nephalism Dictionary N - noun Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.
Nephalist Dictionary N - noun One who advocates or practices nephalism.
Nepheline Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nephelite.
Nephelite Dictionary N - noun A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.
Nephelodometer Dictionary N - noun An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
Nephelometer Dictionary N - noun An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.
Nephew Dictionary N - noun A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.
Nephilim Dictionary N - noun plural Giants.
Nephoscope Dictionary N - noun An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.
Nephralgia Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nephralgy.
Nephralgy Dictionary N - noun Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter.
Nephridial Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
Nephridia Dictionary N - pleural of Nephridium.
Nephridium Dictionary N - noun A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.
Nephrite Dictionary N - noun A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.
Nephritic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nephritical.
Nephritical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.
Nephritis Dictionary N - noun An inflammation of the kidneys.
nephrolithic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi.
Nephrology Dictionary N - noun A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.
Nephrostome Dictionary N - noun The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.
Nephrotomy Dictionary N - noun Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
Nepotal Dictionary N - adjective Of or relating to a nephew.
Nepotic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to npotism.
Nepotism Dictionary N - noun Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
Nepotist Dictionary N - noun One who practices nepotism.
Neptune Dictionary N - noun The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
Neptunian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
Neptunist Dictionary N - noun One who adopts the neptunian theory.
Neptunicentric Dictionary N - adjective As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.
Neptunium Dictionary N - noun A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
Ner Dictionary N - adverb & adjective nearer.
Nere Dictionary N - Were not.
Nereids Dictionary N - pleural of Nereid.
Nereides Dictionary N - pleural of Nereid.
Nereid Dictionary N - noun A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
Nereidian Dictionary N - noun Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.
Nereis Dictionary N - noun A Nereid. See Nereid.
Nereites Dictionary N - noun plural Fossil tracks of annelids.
Nereocystis Dictionary N - noun A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
Nerfling Dictionary N - noun The id.
Nerita Dictionary N - noun A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.
Nerite Dictionary N - noun Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.
Neritina Dictionary N - noun A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.
Nero Dictionary N - noun A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.
Neroli Dictionary N - noun An essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc.
Nerre Dictionary N - adverb & adjective Nearer.
Nervate Dictionary N - adjective Nerved.
Nervation Dictionary N - noun The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.
Nerve Dictionary N - noun One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
Nerved Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nerve.
Nerving Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nerve.
Nerveless Dictionary N - adjective Destitute of nerves.
Nervelessness Dictionary N - noun The state of being nerveless.
Nerve-shaken Dictionary N - adjective Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
Nervimotion Dictionary N - noun The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves.
Nervimotor Dictionary N - noun Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.
Nervine Dictionary N - adjective Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.
Nervomuscular Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
Nervose Dictionary N - adjective Same as Nerved.
Nervosity Dictionary N - noun Nervousness.
Nervous Dictionary N - adjective possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.
Nervously Dictionary N - adverb In a nervous manner.
Nervousness Dictionary N - noun State or quality of being nervous.
Nervure Dictionary N - noun One of the nerves of leaves.
Nervy Dictionary N - superl. - Strong; sinewy.
Nescience Dictionary N - noun Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
Nese Dictionary N - noun Nose.
Nesh Dictionary N - adjective Soft; tender; delicate.
Ness Dictionary N - noun A promontory; a cape; a headland.
-ness Dictionary N - A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressive of quality or state; as, goodness, greatness.
Nesslerize Dictionary N - verb transitive To treat or test, as a liquid, with a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide and potassium hydroxide, which is called Nessler's solution or Nessler's test, and is used to detect the presence of ammonia.
Nest Dictionary N - noun The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.
Nestfuls Dictionary N - pleural of Nestful.
Nestful Dictionary N - noun As much or many as will fill a nest.
Nestled Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nestle.
Nestling Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nestle.
Nestle Dictionary N - intransitive verb To make and occupy a nest; to nest.
Nestor Dictionary N - noun A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.
Nestorian Dictionary N - noun An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian.
Nestorianism Dictionary N - noun The doctrines of the nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.
Ney Dictionary N - noun A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.
Netted Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Net.
Netting Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Net.
Net Dictionary N - verb transitive To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.
Netfish Dictionary N - noun An astrophyton.
Nether Dictionary N - adjective Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; - opposed to upper.
Neithermore Dictionary N - adjective Lower, nether.
Nethermost Dictionary N - adjective Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss.
Nethinim Dictionary N - noun plural Servants of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.
Netify Dictionary N - verb transitive To render neat; to clean; to put in order.
Nettle Dictionary N - noun A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
Nettled Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nettle.
Nettling Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nettle.
Nettlebird Dictionary N - noun the European whitethroat.
Nettler Dictionary N - noun One who nettles.
Nettles Dictionary N - noun plural The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
Netty Dictionary N - adjective Like a net, or network; netted.
Net-veined Dictionary N - adjective Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf.
Network Dictionary N - noun A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.
Neurad Dictionary N - adverb Toward the neural side; - opposed to haemad.
Neural Dictionary N - adjective relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; - opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal.
Neuralgia Dictionary N - noun A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
Neuralgic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.
Neuralgy Dictionary N - noun Neuralgia.
Neurapophysial Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a neurapophysis.
Neurapophyses Dictionary N - pleural of Neurapophysis.
Neurapophysis Dictionary N - noun One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch.
Neurasthenia Dictionary N - noun A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.
Neuration Dictionary N - noun The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation.
Neuraxis Dictionary N - noun See Axis cylinder, under Axis.
Neurenteric Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to both the neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
Neuridin Dictionary N - noun a nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc.
Neurilemma Dictionary N - noun The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.
Neurility Dictionary N - noun The special properties and functions of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves.
Neurine Dictionary N - noun A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide.
Neurism Dictionary N - noun Nerve force. See Vital force, under Vital.
Neuritis Dictionary N - noun Inflammation of a nerve.
Neuro- Dictionary N - A combining denoting a nerve, of / pertaining to a nerve / the nervous system.
Neuro-central Dictionary N - adjective Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture.
Neurochord Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Neurochordal.
Neurochordal Dictionary N - adjective See Neurocord.
Neurocity Dictionary N - noun Nerve force.
Neurocoele Dictionary N - noun The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.
Neurocord Dictionary N - noun A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm.
Neuro-epidermal Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm.
Neuroglia Dictionary N - noun The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.
Neurography Dictionary N - noun A description of the nerves.
Neurokeratin Dictionary N - noun A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin.
Neurological Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to neurolgy.
Neurologist Dictionary N - noun One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases.
Neurology Dictionary N - noun The branch of science which treats of the nervous system.
Neuroma Dictionary N - noun A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.
Neuromere Dictionary N - noun A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
Neuromuscular Dictionary N - adjective Nervomuscular.
Neura Dictionary N - pleural of Neuron.
Neuron Dictionary N - noun The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon.
Neuropathic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.
Neuropathy Dictionary N - noun An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.
Neuropod Dictionary N - noun A neuropodous animal.
Neuropodium Dictionary N - noun The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.
Neuropodous Dictionary N - adjective Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the neural side, as in most invertebrates; - opposed to haemapodous.
Neuropore Dictionary N - noun An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal.
Neuropter Dictionary N - noun One of the Neuroptera.
Neuroptera Dictionary N - noun plural An order of hexapod insects having two pairs of large, membranous, net-veined wings. The mouth organs are adapted for chewing. They feed upon other insects, and undergo a complete metamorphosis. The ant-lion, hellgamite, and lacewing fly are examples. Formerly, the name was given to a much more extensive group, including the true Neuroptera and the Pseudoneuroptera.
Neropteral Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.
Neuropteran Dictionary N - noun A neuropter.
Neuropteris Dictionary N - noun An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation.
Neuropterous Dictionary N - adjective Neuropteral.
Neurosensiferous Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, or forming, both nerves and sense organs.
Neurosis Dictionary N - noun A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.
Neuroskeletal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the neuroskeleton.
Neuroskeleton Dictionary N - noun The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation.
Neurospast Dictionary N - noun A puppet.
Neurotic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.
Neurotome Dictionary N - noun An instrument for cutting or dissecting nerves.
Neurotomical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to neurotomy.
Neurotomist Dictionary N - noun One who skilled in or practices neurotomy.
Neurotomy Dictionary N - noun The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.
Neurula Dictionary N - noun An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.
Neuter Dictionary N - adjective Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
Neutral Dictionary N - adjective Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.
Neutralist Dictionary N - noun A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.
Neutrality Dictionary N - noun The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.
Neutralization Dictionary N - noun The act or process of neutralizing, or the state of being neutralized.
Neutralized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Neutralize.
Neutralizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Neutralize.
Neutralize Dictionary N - verb transitive To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.
Neutralizer Dictionary N - noun One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.
Neutrally Dictionary N - adverb In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.
Neuvaines Dictionary N - noun plural Prayers offered up for nine successive days.
Nevadite Dictionary N - noun A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada.
Neve Dictionary N - noun The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.
Neven Dictionary N - verb transitive To name; to mention; to utter.
Never Dictionary N - adverb Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
Nevermore Dictionary N - adverb Never again; at no time hereafter.
Neverthelater Dictionary N - adverb / conj.]] Nevertheless.
Nevertheless Dictionary N - adverb / conj.]] Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet.
Nevew Dictionary N - noun Nephew.
New Dictionary N - superlative Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; - opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion.
Newborn Dictionary N - adjective Recently born.
Newcome Dictionary N - adjective Recently come.
Newcomer Dictionary N - noun One who has lately come.
Newel Dictionary N - noun A novelty; a new thing.
Newfangle Dictionary N - adjective Eager for novelties; desirous of changing.
Newfangled Dictionary N - adjective Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty.
Newfangledness Dictionary N - noun Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.
Newfangleness Dictionary N - noun Newfangledness.
Newfanglist Dictionary N - noun One who is eager for novelties or desirous of change.
Newfangly Dictionary N - adverb In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty.
Newfashioned Dictionary N - adjective Made in a new form, or lately come into fashion.
Newfoundland Dictionary N - noun An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.
Newing Dictionary N - verb transitive Yeast; barm.
Newish Dictionary N - adjective Somewhat new; nearly new.
Newly Dictionary N - adverb Lately; recently.
Newmarket Dictionary N - noun A long, closely fitting cloak.
New-model Dictionary N - verb transitive To remodel.
Newness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being new; as, the newness of a system; the newness of a scene; newness of life.
News Dictionary N - n A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence.
News-book Dictionary N - noun A newspaper.
newsboy Dictionary N - noun A boy who distributes or sells newspaper.
News-letter Dictionary N - noun A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.
Newsmen Dictionary N - pleural of Newsman.
Newsman Dictionary N - noun One who brings news.
Newsmonger Dictionary N - noun One who deals in news; one who is active in hearing and telling news.
Newspaper Dictionary N - noun A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.
Newsroom Dictionary N - noun A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.
News-vnder Dictionary N - noun A seller of newspapers.
News-writer Dictionary N - noun One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters.
Newsy Dictionary N - adjective Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.
Newt Dictionary N - noun Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.
Newtonian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.
New-year Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
New Year's Day Dictionary N - the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.
New Zealand Dictionary N - A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
Nexible Dictionary N - adjective That may be knit together.
Next Dictionary N - superlative Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.
Nexus Dictionary N - noun Connection; tie.
Nez Perces Dictionary N - A tribe of Indians, mostly inhabiting Idaho.
Ngina Dictionary N - noun The gorilla.
Niagara period Dictionary N - A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.
Nias Dictionary N - noun A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.
Nib Dictionary N - noun A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
Nebbed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nib.
Nibbing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nib.
Nibbed Dictionary N - adjective Having a nib or point.
Nibbled Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nibble.
Nibbling Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nibble.
Nibble Dictionary N - verb transitive To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
Nibbler Dictionary N - noun One who, or that which, nibbles.
Nibblingly Dictionary N - adverb In a nibbling manner; cautiously.
Niblick Dictionary N - noun A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.
Nicagua Dictionary N - noun The laughing falcon. See under laughing.
Nicaragua wood Dictionary N - Brazil wood.
Niccolite Dictionary N - noun A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; - called also coppernickel, kupfernickel.
Nice Dictionary N - superlative Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
Nicely Dictionary N - adverb In a nice manner.
Nicene Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenial council held there A. D. 325.
Niceness Dictionary N - noun Quality or state of being nice.
Nicery Dictionary N - noun Nicety.
Niceties Dictionary N - pleural of Nicety.
Nicety Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
Niche Dictionary N - noun A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
Niched Dictionary N - adjective Placed in a niche.
Nick Dictionary N - noun An evil spirit of the waters.
Nicked Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nick.
Nicking Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nick.
Nickar nut Dictionary N - Alt. of Nickar tree.
Nickar tree Dictionary N - Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree.
Nickel Dictionary N - noun A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
Nickelic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.
Nickeliferous Dictionary N - adjective Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.
Nickeline Dictionary N - noun An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.
Nickelous Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, those compounds of nickel in which, as contrasted with the nickelic compounds, the metal has a lower valence; as, nickelous oxide.
Nicker Dictionary N - verb transitive One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
Nicker nut Dictionary N - A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Caesalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C. Bonducella, bluish gray.
Nicker tree Dictionary N - The plant producing nicker nuts.
Nickle Dictionary N - noun The European woodpecker, or yaffle; - called also nicker pecker.
Nicknack Dictionary N - noun See Knickknack.
Nicknackery Dictionary N - noun See Knickknackery.
Nickname Dictionary N - noun A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
Nicknamed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nickname.
Nicknaming Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nickname.
Nicolaitan Dictionary N - noun One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.
Nicotian Dictionary N - noun Tobacco.
Nicotiana Dictionary N - noun A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.
Nicotianine Dictionary N - noun A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.
Nicotic Dictionary N - adjective Nicotinic.
Nicotidine Dictionary N - noun A complex, oily, nitrogenous base, isomeric with nicotine, and obtained by the reduction of certain derivatives of the pyridine group.
Nicotine Dictionary N - noun An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous.
Nicotinic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; - used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid.
Nictate Dictionary N - intransitive verb To wink; to nictitate.
Nictation Dictionary N - noun the act of winking; nictitation.
Nictitate Dictionary N - intransitive verb To wink; to nictate.
Nictitation Dictionary N - noun The act of winking.
Nidamental Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.
Nidary Dictionary N - noun A collection of nests.
Nide Dictionary N - noun A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants.
Nidering Dictionary N - adjective Infamous; dastardly.
Nidgery Dictionary N - noun A trifle; a piece of foolery.
Nidget Dictionary N - noun A fool; an idiot, a coward.
Nidificated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nidificate.
Nidificating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nidificate.
Nidificate Dictionary N - intransitive verb To make a nest.
Nidification Dictionary N - noun The act or process of building a nest.
Niding Dictionary N - noun A coward; a dastard; - a term of utmost opprobrium.
Nidor Dictionary N - noun Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking.
Nidorose Dictionary N - adjective Nidorous.
Nidorous Dictionary N - adjective Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.
Nidulant Dictionary N - adjective Nestling, as a bird in itss nest.
Nidulated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nidulate.
Nidulating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nidulate.
Nidulate Dictionary N - intransitive verb To make a nest, as a bird.
Nidulation Dictionary N - noun The time of remaining in the nest.
Nidulite Dictionary N - noun A Silurian fossil, formerly supposed to consist of eggs.
nidi Dictionary N - pleural of Nidus.
Nidus Dictionary N - noun A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.
Niece Dictionary N - noun A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.
Nief Dictionary N - noun See Neif, the fist.
Niellist Dictionary N - noun One who practices the style of ornamentation called niello.
Niello Dictionary N - noun A metallic alloy of a deep black color.
Nifle Dictionary N - noun A trifle.
Niggard Dictionary N - noun A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.
Niggardise Dictionary N - noun Niggardliness.
Niggardish Dictionary N - adjective Somewhat niggard.
Niggardliness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess.
Niggardly Dictionary N - adjective Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard.
Niggardness Dictionary N - noun Niggardliness.
Niggardous Dictionary N - adjective Niggardly.
Niggardship Dictionary N - noun Niggardliness.
Niggardy Dictionary N - noun Niggardliness.
nigged Dictionary N - noun Hammer-dressed; - said of building stone.
Nigger Dictionary N - noun A negro; - in vulgar derision or depreciation.
Niggish Dictionary N - adjective Niggardly.
Niggled Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Niggle.
Niggling Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Niggle.
Niggle Dictionary N - verb transitive To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
Niggler Dictionary N - noun One who niggles.
Nigh Dictionary N - superlative Not distant or remote in place or time; near.
Nighly Dictionary N - adverb In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost.
Nighness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being nigh.
Night Dictionary N - noun That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
Night-blooming Dictionary N - adjective Blooming in the night.
Nightcap Dictionary N - noun A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
Nightdress Dictionary N - noun A nightgown.
Nighted Dictionary N - adjective Darkness; clouded.
Nightertale Dictionary N - noun period of night; nighttime.
Night-eyed Dictionary N - adjective Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed.
Nightfall Dictionary N - noun The close of the day.
Night-faring Dictionary N - adjective Going or traveling in the night.
Nightgown Dictionary N - noun A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.
Nightingale Dictionary N - noun A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
Nightish Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to night.
Nightjar Dictionary N - noun A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
Nightless Dictionary N - adjective Having no night.
Nightlong Dictionary N - adjective Lasting all night.
Nightly Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.
Nightmen Dictionary N - pleural of Nightman.
Nightman Dictionary N - noun One whose business is emptying privies by night.
Nightmare Dictionary N - noun A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
Nightshade Dictionary N - noun A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.
Nightshirt Dictionary N - noun A kind of nightgown for men.
Nighttime Dictionary N - noun The time from dusk to dawn; - opposed to daytime.
Nightward Dictionary N - adjective Approaching toward night.
Nigraniline Dictionary N - noun The complex, nitrogenous, organic base and dyestuff called also aniline black.
Nigrescent Dictionary N - adjective Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness.
Nigrification Dictionary N - noun The act or process of making black.
Nigrine Dictionary N - noun A ferruginous variety of rutile.
Nigritude Dictionary N - noun Blackness; the state of being black.
Nigromancie Dictionary N - noun Necromancy.
Nigromancien Dictionary N - noun A necromancer.
Nigrosine Dictionary N - noun A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; - called also azodiphenyl blue.
Nigua Dictionary N - noun The chigoe.
Nihil Dictionary N - noun Nothing.
Nihilism Dictionary N - noun Nothingness; nihility.
Nihilist Dictionary N - noun One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
Nihilistic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism.
Nihility Dictionary N - noun Nothingness; a state of being nothing.
Nil Dictionary N - verb transitive Will not.
Nile Dictionary N - noun The great river of Egypt.
Nilgau Dictionary N - noun see Nylghau.
Nilled Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nill.
Nilling Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nill.
Nill Dictionary N - verb transitive Not to will; to refuse; to reject.
Nilometer Dictionary N - noun An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
Niloscope Dictionary N - noun A Nilometer.
Nilotic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.
Nilt Dictionary N - Wilt not.
Nimmed Dictionary N - of Nim.
Nomen Dictionary N - past participle of Nim.
Nome Dictionary N - of Nim.
Nim Dictionary N - verb transitive To take; to steal; to filch.
Nimbiferous Dictionary N - adjective Serving to bring clouds or stormy weather.
Nimble Dictionary N - superlative Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.
Nimbleness Dictionary N - noun The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.
Nimbless Dictionary N - noun Nimbleness.
Nimbly Dictionary N - adverb In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.
Nimbose Dictionary N - adjective Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.
Nimbi Dictionary N - pleural of Nimbus.
Nimbuses Dictionary N - pleural of Nimbus.
Nimbus Dictionary N - noun A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.
Nimiety Dictionary N - noun State of being in excess.
Nimious Dictionary N - adjective Excessive; extravagant; inordinate.
Nimmer Dictionary N - noun A thief.
Nin Dictionary N - Not in.
Nincompoop Dictionary N - noun A fool; a silly or stupid person.
Nine Dictionary N - adjective Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
Nine-bark Dictionary N - noun A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, / Spiraea, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
Nine-eyes Dictionary N - noun The lamprey.
Ninefold Dictionary N - adjective Nine times repeated.
Nineholes Dictionary N - noun plural A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.
Nine-killer Dictionary N - noun The northern butcher bird.
Ninepences Dictionary N - pleural of Ninepence.
Ninepence Dictionary N - noun An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
Ninepins Dictionary N - noun plural A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
Ninescore Dictionary N - adjective Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty.
Nineteen Dictionary N - adjective Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.
Nineteenth Dictionary N - adjective Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.
Ninetieth Dictionary N - adjective Next in order after the eighty-ninth.
Ninety Dictionary N - adjective Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
Nineties Dictionary N - pleural of Ninety.
Ninnies Dictionary N - pleural of Ninny.
Ninny Dictionary N - noun A fool; a simpleton.
Ninnyhammer Dictionary N - noun A simpleton; a silly person.
Ninth Dictionary N - adjective Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
Ninthly Dictionary N - adverb In the ninth place.
Ninut Dictionary N - noun The magpie.
Niobate Dictionary N - noun Same as Columbate.
Niobe Dictionary N - noun The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.
Niobic Dictionary N - adjective Same as Columbic.
Niobite Dictionary N - noun Same as Columbite.
Niobium Dictionary N - noun A later name of columbium. See Columbium.
Niopo Dictionary N - noun A kind of snuff prepared by the natives of Venezuela from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree (Piptadenia peregrina), thence called niopo tree.
Nip Dictionary N - noun A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
Nipped Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nip.
Nipt Dictionary N - of Nip.
Nipping Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nip.
Nipper Dictionary N - noun One who, or that which, nips.
Nipperkin Dictionary N - noun A small cup.
Nippers Dictionary N - noun plural Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
Nippingly Dictionary N - adverb In a nipping manner.
Nippitate Dictionary N - adjective Peculiary strong and good; - said of ale or liquor.
Nippitato Dictionary N - noun Strong liquor.
Nipple Dictionary N - noun The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
Nipplewort Dictionary N - noun A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; - called also dock-cress.
Nirvana Dictionary N - noun In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
Nis Dictionary N - Is not.
Nisan Dictionary N - noun The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.
Nyseys Dictionary N - pleural of Nisey.
Nisey Dictionary N - noun A simpleton.
Nisi Dictionary N - conjecture Unless; if not.
Niste Dictionary N - Wist not; knew not.
Nisus Dictionary N - noun A striving; an effort; a conatus.
Nit Dictionary N - noun The egg of a louse or other small insect.
Nitency Dictionary N - noun Brightness; luster.
Niter Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nitre.
Nitre Dictionary N - noun A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
Nithing Dictionary N - noun See Niding.
Nitid Dictionary N - adjective Bright; lustrous; shining.
Nitranilic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.
Nitraniline Dictionary N - noun Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.
Nitrate Dictionary N - noun A salt of nitric acid.
Nitrated Dictionary N - adjective Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.
Nitratine Dictionary N - noun A mineral occurring in transparent crystals, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.
Nitriary Dictionary N - noun An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.
Nitric Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.
Nitride Dictionary N - noun A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.
Nitriferous Dictionary N - adjective Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.
Nitrification Dictionary N - noun The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.
Nitrifier Dictionary N - noun An agent employed in nitrification.
Nitrified Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nitrify.
Nitrifying Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nitrify.
Nitrify Dictionary N - verb transitive To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.
Nitrile Dictionary N - noun Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.
Nitrite Dictionary N - noun A salt of nitrous acid.
Nitro- Dictionary N - A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.
Nitrobenzene Dictionary N - noun A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.
Nitrobenzol Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nitrobenzole.
Nitrobenzole Dictionary N - noun See Nitrobenzene.
Nitrocalcite Dictionary N - noun Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.
Nitrocarbol Dictionary N - noun See Nitromethane.
Nitrocellulose Dictionary N - noun See Gun cotton, under Gun.
Nitro-chloroform Dictionary N - noun Same as Chlorpicrin.
Nitroform Dictionary N - noun A nitro derivative of methane, analogous to chloroform, obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance, CH.(NO2)3, quite explosive, and having well-defined acid properties.
Nitrogelatin Dictionary N - noun An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
Nitrogen Dictionary N - noun A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.
Nitrogenized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nitrogenize.
Nitrogenizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nitrogenize.
Nitrogenize Dictionary N - verb transitive To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds.
Nitrogenous Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, nitrogen; as, a nitrogenous principle; nitrogenous compounds.
Nitroglycerin Dictionary N - noun A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.
Nitrohydrochloric Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitric and hydrochloric acids.
Nitrol Dictionary N - noun Any one of a series of hydrocarbons containing the nitro and the nitroso or isonitroso group united to the same carbon atom.
Nitroleum Dictionary N - noun Nitroglycerin.
Nitrolic Dictionary N - adjective Of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; as, a nitrolic acid.
Nitromagnesite Dictionary N - noun Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.
Nitrometer Dictionary N - noun An apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.
Nitromethane Dictionary N - noun A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; - called also nitrocarbol.
Nitromuriatic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or composed of, nitric acid and muriatic acid; nitrohydrochloric. See Nitrohydrochloric.
Nitrophnol Dictionary N - noun Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of phenol. They are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well-defined acid properties, as picric acid.
Nitroprussic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.
Nitroprusside Dictionary N - noun See Nitroprussic.
Nitroquinol Dictionary N - noun A hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well defined series of derivatives.
Niteosaccharin Dictionary N - noun An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.
Nitrosalicylic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitro derivative of salicylic acid, called also anilic acid.
Nitrose Dictionary N - adjective See Nitrous.
Nitroso- Dictionary N - (/ / /). (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) designating the group or radical NO, called the nitroso group, or its compounds.
Nitrosyl Dictionary N - noun the radical NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.
Nitrosylic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrosyl; as, nitrosylic acid.
Nitrous Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.
Nitroxyl Dictionary N - noun The group NO2, usually called the nitro group.
Nitrum Dictionary N - noun Niter.
Nitry Dictionary N - adjective Nitrous.
Nitryl Dictionary N - noun A name sometimes given to the nitro group or radical.
Nitter Dictionary N - noun The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.
Nittily Dictionary N - adverb Lousily.
Nittings Dictionary N - noun plural The refuse of good ore.
Nitty Dictionary N - adjective Full of nits.
Nival Dictionary N - adjective Abounding with snow; snowy.
Niveous Dictionary N - adjective Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.
Nivose Dictionary N - noun The fourth month of the French republican calendar 1792-1806. It commenced December 21, and ended January 19. See VendEmiaire.
Nix Dictionary N - fem. One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
Nixie Dictionary N - noun See Nix.
Nizam Dictionary N - noun The title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad, in India, since 1719.
No Dictionary N - adjective Not any; not one; none.
Noes Dictionary N - pleural of No.
Noachian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.
Noah Dictionary N - noun A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.
Nob Dictionary N - noun The head.
Nobbily Dictionary N - adverb In a nobby manner.
Nobbler Dictionary N - noun A dram of spirits.
Nobby Dictionary N - adjective Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.
Nobiliary Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nobility.
Nobilify Dictionary N - verb transitive To make noble; to nobiliate.
Nobilitate Dictionary N - verb transitive To make noble; to ennoble; to exalt.
Nobilitation Dictionary N - noun The act of making noble.
Nobility Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.
Noble Dictionary N - superlative Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
Noblemen Dictionary N - pleural of Nobleman.
Nobleman Dictionary N - noun One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
Noble-minded Dictionary N - adjective Having a noble mind; honorable; magnanimous.
Nobleness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness.
Nobless Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Noblesse.
Noblesse Dictionary N - noun Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.
Noblewomen Dictionary N - pleural of Noblewoman.
Noblewoman Dictionary N - noun A female of noble rank; a peeress.
Nobley Dictionary N - noun The body of nobles; the nobility.
Nobly Dictionary N - adverb Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.
Nobodies Dictionary N - pleural of Nobody.
Nobody Dictionary N - noun No person; no one; not anybody.
Nocake Dictionary N - noun Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, - used for food by the Northern American Indians.
Nocent Dictionary N - adjective Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities.
Nocently Dictionary N - adverb Hurtfully; injuriosly.
Nocive Dictionary N - adjective Hurtful; injurious.
Nock Dictionary N - noun A notch.
Noctambulation Dictionary N - noun Somnambulism; walking in sleep.
Noctambulism Dictionary N - noun Somnambulism.
Noctambulist Dictionary N - noun A somnambulist.
Noctambulo Dictionary N - noun A noctambulist.
Noctidial Dictionary N - adjective Comprising a night and a day; a noctidial day.
Noctiferous Dictionary N - adjective Bringing night.
Noctilionid Dictionary N - noun A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, having cheek pouches and large incisor teeth.
NoctilucAe Dictionary N - pleural of Noctiluca.
Noctiluca Dictionary N - noun That which shines at night; - a fanciful name for phosphorus.
Noctilucin Dictionary N - noun A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.
Noctilucine Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Noctiluca.
Noctilucous Dictionary N - adjective Shining in the night.
Noctivagant Dictionary N - adjective Going about in the night; night-wandering.
Noctivagation Dictionary N - noun A roving or going about in the night.
Noctivagous Dictionary N - adjective Noctivagant.
Noctograph Dictionary N - noun A kind of writing frame for the blind.
Noctuary Dictionary N - noun A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; - distinguished from diary.
Noctuid Dictionary N - noun Any one of numerous moths of the family Noctuidae, or Noctuaelitae, as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths; - so called because they fly at night.
Noctule Dictionary N - noun A large European bat (Vespertilio, / Noctulina, altivolans).
Nocturn Dictionary N - noun An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.
Nocturnal Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; - opposed to diurnal.
Nocturnally Dictionary N - adverb By night; nightly.
Nocturne Dictionary N - noun A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.
Nocument Dictionary N - noun Harm; injury; detriment.
Nocuous Dictionary N - adjective Hurtful; noxious.
Nod Dictionary N - intransitive verb To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
Nodded Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nod.
Nodding Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nod.
Nodal Dictionary N - adjective Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point.
Nodated Dictionary N - adjective Knotted.
Nodation Dictionary N - noun Act of making a knot, or state of being knotted.
Nodder Dictionary N - noun One who nods; a drowsy person.
Noddle Dictionary N - noun The head; - used jocosely or contemptuously.
Noddies Dictionary N - pleural of Noddy.
Noddy Dictionary N - noun A simpleton; a fool.
Node Dictionary N - noun A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
Nodical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon.
Nodosarine Dictionary N - adjective Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria.
Nodose Dictionary N - adjective Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.
Nodosity Dictionary N - noun The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
Nodosous Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nodous.
Nodous Dictionary N - adjective Nodose; knotty; knotted.
Nodular Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.
Nodule Dictionary N - noun A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.
Noduled Dictionary N - adjective Having little knots or lumps.
Nodulose Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nodulous.
Nodulous Dictionary N - adjective Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.
Noel Dictionary N - noun Same as Nowel.
Noematachograph Dictionary N - noun An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind.
Noematic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Noematical.
Noematical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the understanding.
Noemics Dictionary N - noun The science of the understanding; intellectual science.
Noetian Dictionary N - noun One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Noetic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Noetical.
Noetical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual.
Nof Dictionary N - Not of; nor of.
Nog Dictionary N - noun A noggin.
Noggen Dictionary N - adjective Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh.
Noggin Dictionary N - noun A small mug or cup.
Nogging Dictionary N - verb transitive Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.
Noght Dictionary N - adverb Not.
Noiance Dictionary N - noun Annoyance.
Noie Dictionary N - verb transitive To annoy. See Noy.
Noier Dictionary N - noun An annoyer.
Noils Dictionary N - noun plural Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.
Noint Dictionary N - verb transitive To anoint.
Noious Dictionary N - adjective Annoying; troublesome.
Noise Dictionary N - noun Sound of any kind.
Noised Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Noise.
Noising Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Noise.
Noiseful Dictionary N - adjective Loud; clamorous.
Noiseless Dictionary N - adjective Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time.
Noisette Dictionary N - noun A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.
Noisily Dictionary N - adverb In a noisy manner.
Noisiness Dictionary N - noun The state or quality of being noisy.
Noisome Dictionary N - adjective Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
Noisy Dictionary N - superlative Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.
Nolde Dictionary N - Would not.
Nole Dictionary N - noun The head.
Noli-me-tangere Dictionary N - noun Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. - See Impatiens.
Nolition Dictionary N - noun Adverse action of will; unwillingness; - opposed to volition.
Noll Dictionary N - noun The head; the noddle.
Nolleity Dictionary N - noun The state of being unwilling; nolition.
Nolle prosequi Dictionary N - Will not prosecute; - an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants.
Nolo contendere Dictionary N - A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
Nol. pros. Dictionary N - An abbrev. of Nolle prosequi.
-prossed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nol-pros.
-prossing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nol-pros.
Nol-pros Dictionary N - verb transitive To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
Nolt Dictionary N - noun singular & plural Neat cattle.
Nom Dictionary N - noun Name.
Noma Dictionary N - noun See Canker, n., 1.
Nomad Dictionary N - noun One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
Nomade Dictionary N - noun See Nomad, n.
Nomadian Dictionary N - noun A nomad.
Nomadic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.
Nomadism Dictionary N - noun The state of being a nomad.
Nomadized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nomadize.
Nomadizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nomadize.
Nomadize Dictionary N - intransitive verb To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.
Nomancy Dictionary N - noun The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.
No-man's land Dictionary N - A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.
Nomarch Dictionary N - noun The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
Nomarchies Dictionary N - pleural of Nomarchy.
Nomarchy Dictionary N - noun A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.
Nombles Dictionary N - noun plural The entrails of a deer; the umbles.
Nombril Dictionary N - noun A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; - called also navel point. See Escutcheon.
Nomenclator Dictionary N - noun One who calls persons or things by their names.
Nomenclatress Dictionary N - noun A female nomenclator.
Nomenclatural Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.
Nomenclature Dictionary N - noun A name.
Nomial Dictionary N - noun A name or term.
Nomic Dictionary N - adjective Customary; ordinary; - applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.
Nominal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.
Nominalism Dictionary N - noun The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.
Nominalist Dictionary N - noun One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only.
Nominalistic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.
Nominalize Dictionary N - verb transitive To convert into a noun.
Nominally Dictionary N - adverb In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality.
Nominated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nominate.
Nominating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nominate.
Nominate Dictionary N - verb transitive To mention by name; to name.
Nominately Dictionary N - adverb By name; particularly; namely.
Nomination Dictionary N - noun The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.
Nominatival Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nominative case.
Nominative Dictionary N - adjective Giving a name; naming; designating; - said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
Nominatively Dictionary N - adverb In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
Nominator Dictionary N - noun One who nominates.
Nominee Dictionary N - noun A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.
Nominor Dictionary N - noun A nominator.
Nomocracy Dictionary N - noun Government in accordance with a system of law.
Nomography Dictionary N - noun A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.
Nomology Dictionary N - noun The science of law; legislation.
Nomopelmous Dictionary N - adjective Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.
Nomothete Dictionary N - noun A lawgiver.
Nomothetic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nomothetical.
Nomothetical Dictionary N - adjective Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power.
Non Dictionary N - adjective No; not. See No, a.
Non- Dictionary N - A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.
Nonability Dictionary N - noun Want of ability.
Nonacceptance Dictionary N - noun A neglect or refusal to accept.
Nonacid Dictionary N - adjective Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic; positive; - said of certain atoms and radicals.
Nonacquaintance Dictionary N - noun Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
Nonacquiescence Dictionary N - noun Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.
Nonadmission Dictionary N - noun Failure to be admitted.
Nonadult Dictionary N - adjective Not adult; immature.
Nonaerobiotic Dictionary N - adjective Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaerobiotic.
Nonage Dictionary N - noun The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes.
Nonaged Dictionary N - adjective Having the quality of nonage; being a minor; immature.
Nonagenarian Dictionary N - noun A person ninety years old.
Nonagesimal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.
Nonagon Dictionary N - noun A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.
Nonagrian Dictionary N - noun Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.
Nonalienation Dictionary N - noun Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.
Nonane Dictionary N - noun One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; - so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.
Nonappearance Dictionary N - noun Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
Nonappointment Dictionary N - noun Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.
Nonarrival Dictionary N - noun Failure to arrive.
Non assumpsit Dictionary N - The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
Nonattendance Dictionary N - noun A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
Nonattention Dictionary N - noun Inattention.
Nonbituminous Dictionary N - adjective Containing no bitumen; not bituminous.
Nonce Dictionary N - noun The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; - chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.
Nonchalance Dictionary N - noun Indifference; carelessness; coolness.
Nonchalant Dictionary N - adjective Indifferent; careless; cool.
Nonchalantly Dictionary N - adverb In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.
Nonclaim Dictionary N - noun A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.
Noncohesion Dictionary N - noun Want of cohesion.
Noncoincidence Dictionary N - noun Lack of coincidence.
Noncoincident Dictionary N - adjective Not coincident.
Noncombatant Dictionary N - noun Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.
Noncommissioned Dictionary N - adjective Not having a commission.
Noncommittal Dictionary N - noun A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.
Noncommunion Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure of communion.
Noncompletion Dictionary N - noun Lack of completion; failure to complete.
Noncompliance Dictionary N - noun Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.
Noncomplying Dictionary N - adjective Neglecting or refusing to comply.
Non compos Dictionary N - Alt. of Non compos mentis.
Non compos mentis Dictionary N - Not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; hence, also, as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or from accident.
Noncon. Dictionary N - noun See Noncontent.
Nonconcluding Dictionary N - adjective Not concluding.
Nonconcur Dictionary N - intransitive verb To dissent or refuse to concur.
Nonconcurrence Dictionary N - noun Refusal to concur.
Noncondensible Dictionary N - adjective Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; - said of gases.
Noncondensing Dictionary N - adjective Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.
Nonconducting Dictionary N - adjective Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
Nonconduction Dictionary N - noun The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.
Nonconductor Dictionary N - noun A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.
Nonconforming Dictionary N - adjective Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.
Nonconformist Dictionary N - noun One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
Nonconformity Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.
Nonconstat Dictionary N - noun It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.
Noncontagious Dictionary N - adjective Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.
Noncontent Dictionary N - noun One who gives a negative vote; - sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.
Noncontributing Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Noncontributory.
Noncontributory Dictionary N - adjective Not contributing.
Nonda Dictionary N - noun The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.
Nondecane Dictionary N - noun A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; - so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.
Nondeciduate Dictionary N - adjective Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.
Nondelivery Dictionary N - noun A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.
Nondeposition Dictionary N - noun A failure to deposit or throw down.
Nondescript Dictionary N - adjective Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.
Nondevelopment Dictionary N - noun Failure or lack of development.
Nondiscovery Dictionary N - noun Want or failure of discovery.
Nondo Dictionary N - noun A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.
None Dictionary N - adjective No one; not one; not anything; - frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.
Noneffective Dictionary N - adjective Not effective.
Non-ego Dictionary N - noun The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.
Nonelastic Dictionary N - adjective Not having elasticity.
Nonelect Dictionary N - noun singular & plural A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.
Nonelection Dictionary N - noun Failure of election.
Nonelectric Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nonelectrical.
Nonelectrical Dictionary N - adjective Not electric; conducting electricity.
Nonemphatic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nonemphatical.
Nonemphatical Dictionary N - adjective Having no emphasis; unemphatic.
Nonentities Dictionary N - pleural of Nonentity.
Nonentity Dictionary N - noun Nonexistence; the negation of being.
Non-Episcopal Dictionary N - adjective Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.
Nones Dictionary N - noun plural The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.
Nonessential Dictionary N - adjective Not essential.
Non est factum Dictionary N - The plea of the general issue in an action of debt on bond.
Non est inventus Dictionary N - The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county.
Nonesuch Dictionary N - noun A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.
Nonet Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nonetto.
Nonetto Dictionary N - noun A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.
Nonett Dictionary N - noun The titmouse.
Nonexecution Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.
Nonexistence Dictionary N - noun Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.
Nonexistent Dictionary N - adjective Not having existence.
Nonexportation Dictionary N - noun A failure of exportation; a not exporting of commodities.
Nonextensile Dictionary N - adjective Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.
Non-feasance Dictionary N - noun An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.
Nonfulfillment Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure to fulfill.
Nonillion Dictionary N - noun According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Nonimportation Dictionary N - noun Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
Nonimporting Dictionary N - adjective Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.
Noninflectional Dictionary N - adjective Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.
Noninhabitant Dictionary N - noun One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
Nonintervention Dictionary N - noun The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.
Nonius Dictionary N - noun A vernier.
Nonjoinder Dictionary N - noun The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.
Nonjurant Dictionary N - adjective Nonjuring.
Nonjuring Dictionary N - adjective Not swearing allegiance; - applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.
Nonjuror Dictionary N - noun One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.
Nonjurorism Dictionary N - noun The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.
Nonlimitation Dictionary N - noun Want of limitation; failure to limit.
Non liquet Dictionary N - It is not clear; - a verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred to another day of trial.
Nonmalignant Dictionary N - adjective Not malignant, as a disease.
Nonmanufacturing Dictionary N - adjective Not carrying on manufactures.
Nonmedullated Dictionary N - adjective Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.
Nonmember Dictionary N - noun One who is not a member.
Nonmembership Dictionary N - noun State of not being a member.
Nonmetal Dictionary N - noun Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
Nonmetallic Dictionary N - adjective Not metallic.
Nonnatural Dictionary N - adjective Not natural; unnatural.
Nonne Dictionary N - noun A nun.
Nonnecessity Dictionary N - noun Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.
Nonnitrognous Dictionary N - adjective Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.
Nonnucleated Dictionary N - adjective Without a nucleus.
Nonny Dictionary N - noun A silly fellow; a ninny.
Nonobedience Dictionary N - noun Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
Nonobservance Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
Non obstante Dictionary N - Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.
Nonoic Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, nonane; as, nonoic acid, which is also called pelargonic acid. Cf. Pelargonic.
Nonone Dictionary N - noun Any one of several metameric unsaturated hydrocarbons (C9H14) of the valylene series.
Nonoxygenous Dictionary N - adjective Without oxygen; characterized by the absence of oxygen; as, a nonoxygenous alkaloid.
Nonpareil Dictionary N - adjective Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; - often used as a name.
Nonpayment Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure to pay.
Nonperformance Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure to perform.
Nonphotobiotic Dictionary N - adjective Capable of living without light; as, nonphotobiotic plant cells, or cells which habitually live in darkness.
Nonplane Dictionary N - adjective Not lying in one plane; - said of certain curves.
Nonplus Dictionary N - noun A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
Nonplused Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nonplus.
Nonplussed Dictionary N - of Nonplus.
Nonplusing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nonplus.
Nonplussing Dictionary N - of Nonplus.
Nonpreparation Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
Nonpresentation Dictionary N - noun Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
Nonproduction Dictionary N - noun A failure to produce or exhibit.
Nonprofessional Dictionary N - adjective Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.
Nonproficiency Dictionary N - noun Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.
Nonproficient Dictionary N - noun One who has failed to become proficient.
Non pros. Dictionary N - An abbreviation of Non prosequitur.
Nonprossed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Non-pros.
Non-prossing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Non-pros.
Non-pros Dictionary N - verb transitive To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed.
Non prosequitur Dictionary N - A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.
Nonrecurrent Dictionary N - adjective Not recurring.
Nonrecurring Dictionary N - adjective Nonrecurrent.
Nonregardance Dictionary N - noun Want of due regard; disregard; slight.
Nonregent Dictionary N - noun A master of arts whose regency has ceased. See Regent.
Nonrendition Dictionary N - noun Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due.
Nonresemblance Dictionary N - noun Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
Nonresidence Dictionary N - noun The state or condition of being nonresident,.
Nonresident Dictionary N - adjective Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.
Nonresistance Dictionary N - noun The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.
Nonresistant Dictionary N - adjective Making no resistance.
Nonresisting Dictionary N - adjective Not making resistance.
Nonruminant Dictionary N - adjective Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal.
Nonsane Dictionary N - adjective Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory.
Nonsense Dictionary N - noun That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.
Nonsensical Dictionary N - adjective Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous.
Nonsensitive Dictionary N - adjective Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.
Non sequitur Dictionary N - An inference which does not follow from the premises.
Nonsexual Dictionary N - adjective Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
Nonslaveholding Dictionary N - adjective Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State.
Nonsolution Dictionary N - noun Failure of solution or explanation.
Nonsolvency Dictionary N - noun Inability to pay debts; insolvency.
Nonsolvent Dictionary N - adjective Not solvent; insolvent.
Nonsonant Dictionary N - adjective Not sonant.
Nonsparing Dictionary N - adjective Sparing none.
Nonstriated Dictionary N - adjective Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.
Nonsubmission Dictionary N - noun Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
Nonsubmissive Dictionary N - adjective Not submissive.
Nonsuch Dictionary N - noun See Nonesuch.
Nonsuit Dictionary N - noun A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case.
Nonsuited Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nonsuit.
Nonsuiting Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nonsuit.
Nonsurety Dictionary N - noun Insecurity.
Nontenure Dictionary N - noun A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.
Nonterm Dictionary N - noun A vacation between two terms of a court.
Nontoxic Dictionary N - adjective Not toxic.
Nontronite Dictionary N - noun A greenish yellow or green mineral, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron.
Nonuniformist Dictionary N - noun One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; - called also nonuniformitarian.
Nonunionist Dictionary N - noun One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
Nonusance Dictionary N - noun Neglect of using; failure to use.
Nonuser Dictionary N - A not using; failure to use.
Nonvascular Dictionary N - adjective Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
Nonvernacular Dictionary N - adjective Not vernacular.
Nonvocal Dictionary N - adjective Not vocal; destitute of tone.
Nonyl Dictionary N - noun The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.
Nonylene Dictionary N - noun Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons C9H18 of the ethylene series.
Nonylenic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, related to, or designating, nonylene or its compounds; as, nonylenic acid.
Nonylic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.
Noodle Dictionary N - noun A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
Nook Dictionary N - noun A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.
Nook-shotten Dictionary N - adjective Full of nooks, angles, or corners.
Noological Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to noology.
Noologist Dictionary N - noun One versed in noology.
Noology Dictionary N - noun The science of intellectual phenomena.
Noon Dictionary N - adjective No. See the Note under No.
Noonday Dictionary N - noun Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.
Noon-flower Dictionary N - noun The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.
Nooning Dictionary N - noun A rest at noon; a repast at noon.
Noonshun Dictionary N - noun See Nunchion.
Noonstead Dictionary N - noun The position of the sun at noon.
Noontide Dictionary N - noun The time of noon; midday.
Noose Dictionary N - noun A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
Noosed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Noose.
Noosing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Noose.
Noot Dictionary N - See lst Not.
Nopal Dictionary N - noun A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.
Nopalries Dictionary N - pleural of Nopalry.
Nopalry Dictionary N - noun A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.
Nope Dictionary N - noun A bullfinch.
Nor Dictionary N - conjecture A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.
Norbertine Dictionary N - noun See Premonstrant.
Noria Dictionary N - noun A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.
Norian Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks.
Norice Dictionary N - noun Nurse.
Norie Dictionary N - noun The cormorant.
Norimons Dictionary N - pleural of Norimon.
Norimon Dictionary N - noun A Japanese covered litter, carried by men.
Norite Dictionary N - noun A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.
Norium Dictionary N - noun A supposed metal alleged to have been discovered in zircon.
Norm Dictionary N - adjective A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
Norma Dictionary N - noun A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard.
Normal Dictionary N - adjective According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
Normalcy Dictionary N - noun The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy.
Normalization Dictionary N - noun Reduction to a standard or normal state.
Normally Dictionary N - adverb In a normal manner.
Norman Dictionary N - noun A wooden bar, or iron pin.
Normanism Dictionary N - noun A Norman idiom; a custom or expression peculiar to the Normans.
Norn Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Norna.
Norna Dictionary N - noun One of the three Fates, Past, Present, and Future. Their names were Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld.
Noropianic Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the aromatic series obtained from opianic acid.
Norroy Dictionary N - noun The most northern of the English Kings-at-arms. See King-at-arms, under King.
Norse Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.
Norsemen Dictionary N - pleural of Norseman.
Norseman Dictionary N - noun One of the ancient Scandinavians; a Northman.
Nortelry Dictionary N - noun Nurture; education; culture; bringing up.
North Dictionary N - noun That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.
Northeast Dictionary N - noun The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each; the northeast part or region.
Northeaster Dictionary N - noun A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.
Northeasterly Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.
Northeastern Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.
Northeastward Dictionary N - adverb Alt. of Northeastwardly.
Northeastwardly Dictionary N - adverb Toward the northeast.
Norther Dictionary N - noun A wind from the north; esp., a strong and cold north wind in Texas and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico.
Northerliness Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being northerly; direction toward the north.
Northerly Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.
Northern Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
Northerner Dictionary N - noun One born or living in the north.
Northernly Dictionary N - adverb Northerly.
Northernmost Dictionary N - adjective Farthest north.
Northing Dictionary N - noun Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; - opposed to southing.
Northmen Dictionary N - pleural of Northman.
Northman Dictionary N - noun One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
Northmost Dictionary N - adjective Lying farthest north; northernmost.
Northness Dictionary N - noun A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
Northumbrian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England.
Northward Dictionary N - adjective Toward the north; nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
Northwards Dictionary N - adverb Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
Northwardly Dictionary N - adjective Having a northern direction.
Northwest Dictionary N - noun The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.
Northwester Dictionary N - noun A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.
Northwesterly Dictionary N - adjective Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.
Northwestern Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
Northwestward Dictionary N - adverb Alt. of Northwestwardly.
Northwestwardly Dictionary N - adverb Toward the northwest.
Norwegian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.
Norwegium Dictionary N - noun A rare metallic element, of doubtful identification, said to occur in the copper-nickel of Norway.
Norweyan Dictionary N - adjective Norwegian.
Nose Dictionary N - noun The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.
Nosed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nose.
Nosing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nose.
Nosebag Dictionary N - noun A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head.
Noseband Dictionary N - noun That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose.
Nosebleed Dictionary N - noun A bleeding at the nose.
Nosegay Dictionary N - noun A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.
Nosel Dictionary N - verb transitive To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle.
Noseless Dictionary N - adjective Destitute of a nose.
Nosesmart Dictionary N - noun A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.
Nosethirl Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nosethril.
Nosethril Dictionary N - noun Nostril.
Nosle Dictionary N - noun Nozzle.
Nosocomial Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a hospital; as, nosocomial atmosphere.
Nosography Dictionary N - noun A description or classification of diseases.
Nosological Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nosology.
Nosologist Dictionary N - noun One versed in nosology.
Nosology Dictionary N - noun A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.
Nosopoetic Dictionary N - adjective Producing diseases.
Nost Dictionary N - Wottest not; knowest not.
Nostalgia Dictionary N - noun Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
Nostalgic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
Nostalgy Dictionary N - noun Same as Nostalgia.
Nostoc Dictionary N - noun A genus of algae. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance.
Nostril Dictionary N - noun One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.
Nostrums Dictionary N - pleural of Nostrum.
Nostrum Dictionary N - noun A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
Not Dictionary N - Wot not; know not; knows not.
Notabilia Dictionary N - noun plural Things worthy of notice.
Notabilities Dictionary N - pleural of Notability.
Notability Dictionary N - noun Quality of being notable.
Notable Dictionary N - adjective Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.
Notableness Dictionary N - noun The quality of being notable.
Notably Dictionary N - adverb In a notable manner.
Notaeum Dictionary N - noun The back or upper surface, as of a bird.
Notal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.
Notanda Dictionary N - pleural of Notandum.
Notandum Dictionary N - noun A thing to be noted or observed; a notable fact; - chiefly used in the plural.
Notarial Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a notary; done or taken by a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.
Notarially Dictionary N - adverb In a notarial manner.
Notaries Dictionary N - pleural of Notary.
Notary Dictionary N - noun One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.
Notate Dictionary N - adjective Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored.
Notation Dictionary N - noun The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.
Notch Dictionary N - noun A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.
Notched Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Notch.
Notching Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Notch.
Notchboard Dictionary N - noun The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.
Notchweed Dictionary N - noun A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).
Note Dictionary N - verb transitive To butt; to push with the horns.
Noted Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Note.
Noting Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Note.
Notebook Dictionary N - noun A book in which notes or memorandums are written.
Noteful Dictionary N - adjective Useful.
Noteless Dictionary N - adjective Not attracting notice; not conspicuous.
Notelessness Dictionary N - noun A state of being noteless.
Notelet Dictionary N - noun A little or short note; a billet.
Note paper Dictionary N - Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
Noter Dictionary N - noun One who takes notice.
Noteworthy Dictionary N - adjective Worthy of observation or notice; remarkable.
Nother Dictionary N - conjecture Neither; nor.
Nothing Dictionary N - noun Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); - opposed to anything and something.
Nothingarian Dictionary N - noun One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
Nothingism Dictionary N - noun Nihility; nothingness.
Nothingness Dictionary N - noun Nihility; nonexistence.
Notice Dictionary N - noun The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.
Noticed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Notice.
Noticing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Notice.
Noticeable Dictionary N - adjective Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous.
Noticeably Dictionary N - adverb In a noticeable manner.
Noticer Dictionary N - noun One who notices.
Notidanian Dictionary N - noun Any one of several species of sharks of the family Notidanidae, or Hexanchidae. Called also cow sharks. See Shark.
Notification Dictionary N - noun The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.
Notified Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Notify.
Notifying Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Notify.
Notify Dictionary N - verb transitive To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.
Notion Dictionary N - Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notae.
Notional Dictionary N - adjective Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.
Notionality Dictionary N - noun A notional or groundless opinion.
Notionally Dictionary N - adverb In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.
Notionate Dictionary N - adjective Notional.
Notionist Dictionary N - noun One whose opinions are ungrounded notions.
Notist Dictionary N - noun An annotator.
Notobranchiata Dictionary N - noun plural A division of nudibranchiate mollusks having gills upon the back.
Notobranchiate Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata.
Notochord Dictionary N - noun An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
Notochordal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.
Notodontian Dictionary N - noun Any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.
Notopodia Dictionary N - pleural of Notopodium.
Notopodiums Dictionary N - pleural of Notopodium.
Notopodium Dictionary N - noun The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. See Parapodium.
Notorhizal Dictionary N - adjective Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.
Notoriety Dictionary N - noun The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; - commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
Notorious Dictionary N - adjective Generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; - usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice.
Notornis Dictionary N - noun A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.
Nototherium Dictionary N - noun An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
Nototrema Dictionary N - noun The pouched, or marsupial, frog of South America.
Not-pated Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nott-pated.
Nott-pated Dictionary N - adjective Same as Nott-headed.
Notself Dictionary N - noun The negative of self.
Nott Dictionary N - adjective Shorn.
Nott-headed Dictionary N - adjective Having the hair cut close.
Notturno Dictionary N - noun Same as Nocturne.
Nota Dictionary N - pleural of Notum.
Notum Dictionary N - noun The back.
Notus Dictionary N - noun The south wind.
Notwheat Dictionary N - noun Wheat not bearded.
Notwithstanding Dictionary N - preposition Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of.
Nouch Dictionary N - noun An ouch; a jewel.
Nougat Dictionary N - noun A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
Nought Dictionary N - noun & adverb See Naught.
Nould Dictionary N - Would not.
Noule Dictionary N - noun The top of the head; the head or noll.
Noumenal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; - opposed to phenomenal.
Noumenon Dictionary N - noun The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; - so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.
Noun Dictionary N - noun A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
Nounal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a noun.
Nounize Dictionary N - verb transitive To change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun.
Nourice Dictionary N - noun A nurse.
Nourished Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nourish.
Nourishing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nourish.
Nourish Dictionary N - verb transitive To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
Nourishable Dictionary N - adjective Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body.
Nourisher Dictionary N - noun One who, or that which, nourishes.
Nourishingly Dictionary N - adverb Nutritively; cherishingly.
Nourishment Dictionary N - noun The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.
Nouriture Dictionary N - noun Nurture.
Noursle Dictionary N - verb transitive To nurse; to rear; to bring up.
Nous Dictionary N - noun Intellect; understanding; talent; - used humorously.
Nousel Dictionary N - verb transitive Alt. of Nousle.
Nousle Dictionary N - verb transitive To insnare; to entrap.
Nouthe Dictionary N - adverb Alt. of Nowthe.
Nowthe Dictionary N - adverb Just now; at present.
Novaculite Dictionary N - noun A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.
Novatian Dictionary N - noun One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
Novatianism Dictionary N - noun The doctrines or principles of the Novatians.
Novation Dictionary N - noun Innovation.
Novator Dictionary N - noun An innovator.
Novel Dictionary N - adjective Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
Novelette Dictionary N - noun A short novel.
Novelism Dictionary N - noun Innovation.
Novelist Dictionary N - noun An innovator; an asserter of novelty.
Novelize Dictionary N - intransitive verb To innovate.
Novelized Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Novelize.
Novelizing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Novelize.
Novelry Dictionary N - noun Novelty; new things.
Novelties Dictionary N - pleural of Novelty.
Novelty Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
November Dictionary N - noun The eleventh month of the year, containing thirty days.
Novenary Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the number nine.
Novene Dictionary N - adjective Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.
Novennial Dictionary N - adjective Done or recurring every ninth year.
Novercal Dictionary N - adjective Done or recurring every ninth year.
Novice Dictionary N - noun One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
Noviceship Dictionary N - noun The state of being a novice; novitiate.
Novilunar Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the new moon.
Novitiate Dictionary N - noun The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.
Novitious Dictionary N - adjective Newly invented; recent; new.
Novity Dictionary N - noun Newness; novelty.
Novum Dictionary N - noun A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.
Now Dictionary N - adverb At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
Nowadays Dictionary N - adverb In these days; at the present time.
Noway Dictionary N - adverb Alt. of Noways.
Noways Dictionary N - adverb In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise.
Nowch Dictionary N - noun See Nouch.
Nowd Dictionary N - noun The European gray gurnard (Trigla gurnardus).
Nowed Dictionary N - adjective Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.
Nowel Dictionary N - noun Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior.
Nowes Dictionary N - noun plural The marriage knot.
Nowhere Dictionary N - adverb Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.
Nowhither Dictionary N - adverb Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere.
Nowise Dictionary N - noun Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.
Nowt Dictionary N - noun plural Neat cattle.
Noxious Dictionary N - adjective Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.
Noy Dictionary N - verb transitive To annoy; to vex.
Noyance Dictionary N - noun Annoyance.
Noyau Dictionary N - noun A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.
Noyer Dictionary N - noun An annoyer.
Noyful Dictionary N - adjective Full of annoyance.
Noyls Dictionary N - noun plural See Noils.
Noyous Dictionary N - adjective Annoying; disagreeable.
Nozle Dictionary N - noun Nozzle.
Nozzle Dictionary N - noun The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.
Nuance Dictionary N - noun A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.
Nub Dictionary N - verb transitive To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.
Nubbin Dictionary N - noun A small or imperfect ear of maize.
Nubble Dictionary N - verb transitive To beat or bruise with the fist.
Nubeculae Dictionary N - pleural of Nubecula.
Nubecula Dictionary N - noun A nebula.
Nubia Dictionary N - noun A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.
Nubian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa.
Nubiferous Dictionary N - adjective Bringing, or producing, clouds.
Nubigenous Dictionary N - adjective Born of, or produced from, clouds.
Nubilate Dictionary N - verb transitive To cloud.
Nubile Dictionary N - adjective Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
Nubility Dictionary N - noun The state of being marriageable.
Nubilose Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nubilous.
Nubilous Dictionary N - adjective Cloudy.
Nucament Dictionary N - noun A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.
Nucamentaceous Dictionary N - adjective Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits.
Nucelli Dictionary N - pleural of Nucellus.
Nucellus Dictionary N - noun See Nucleus, 3 (a).
Nuch/ Dictionary N - pleural of Nucha.
Nucha Dictionary N - noun The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.
Nuchal Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; - applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.
Nuciferous Dictionary N - adjective Bearing, or producing, nuts.
Nuciform Dictionary N - adjective Shaped like a nut; nut-shaped.
Nucin Dictionary N - noun See Juglone.
Nucleal Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nuclear.
Nuclear Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.
Nucleate Dictionary N - adjective Having a nucleus; nucleated.
Nucleated Dictionary N - adjective Having a nucleus; nucleate; as, nucleated cells.
Nucleiform Dictionary N - adjective Formed like a nucleus or kernel.
Nuclein Dictionary N - noun A constituent of the nuclei of all cells. It is a colorless amorphous substance, readily soluble in alkaline fluids and especially characterized by its comparatively large content of phosphorus. It also contains nitrogen and sulphur.
Nucleobranch Dictionary N - adjective Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata.
Nucleobranchiata Dictionary N - noun plural See Heteropoda.
Nucleoidioplasma Dictionary N - noun Hyaline plasma contained in the nucleus of vegetable cells.
Nucleolar Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the nucleolus of a cell.
Nucleolated Dictionary N - adjective Having a nucleole, or second inner nucleus.
Nucleole Dictionary N - noun The nucleus within a nucleus; nucleolus.
Nucleoli Dictionary N - pleural of Nucleolus.
Nucleolus Dictionary N - noun A little nucleus.
Nucleoplasm Dictionary N - noun The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.
Nucleoplasmic Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; - esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.
Nucleuses Dictionary N - pleural of Nucleus.
Nuclei Dictionary N - pleural of Nucleus.
Nucleus Dictionary N - noun A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; - used both literally and figuratively.
Nucula Dictionary N - noun A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.
Nucle Dictionary N - noun Same as Nutlet.
Nucumentaceous Dictionary N - adjective See Nucamentaceous.
Nudation Dictionary N - noun The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.
Nuddle Dictionary N - intransitive verb To walk quickly with the head bent forward; - often with along.
Nude Dictionary N - adjective Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.
Nudge/ Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nudge.
Nudging Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nudge.
Nudge Dictionary N - verb transitive To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.
Nudibrachiate Dictionary N - adjective Having tentacles without vibratile cilia.
Nudibranch Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.
Nudibranchiata Dictionary N - noun plural A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
Nudibranchiate Dictionary N - adjective & noun Same as Nudibranch.
Nudicaul Dictionary N - adjective Having the stems leafless.
Nudification Dictionary N - noun The act of making nude.
Nudities Dictionary N - pleural of Nudity.
Nudity Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.
Nudum pactum Dictionary N - A bare, naked contract, without any consideration.
Nugacity Dictionary N - noun Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.
Nugae Dictionary N - noun plural Trifles; jests.
Nugation Dictionary N - noun The act or practice of trifling.
Nugatory Dictionary N - adjective Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.
Nugget Dictionary N - noun A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.
Nugify Dictionary N - verb transitive To render trifling or futile; to make silly.
Nuisance Dictionary N - noun That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.
Nuisancer Dictionary N - noun One who makes or causes a nuisance.
Nul Dictionary N - adjective No; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort.
Null Dictionary N - adjective Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
Nulled Dictionary N - adjective Turned so as to resemble nulls.
Nullibiety Dictionary N - noun The state or condition of being nowhere.
Nullification Dictionary N - noun The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.
Nullifidian Dictionary N - adjective Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; - opposed to solifidian.
Nullifier Dictionary N - noun One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.
Nullified Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nullify.
Nullifying Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nullify.
Nullify Dictionary N - adjective To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.
Nullipore Dictionary N - noun A name for certain crustaceous marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.
Nullities Dictionary N - pleural of Nullity.
Nullity Dictionary N - noun The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.
Numb Dictionary N - adjective Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
Numbed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Numb.
Numbing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Numb.
Numbedness Dictionary N - noun Numbness.
Number Dictionary N - noun That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
Numbered Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Number.
Numbering Dictionary N - particle pr & verb noun of Number.
Numberer Dictionary N - noun One who numbers.
Numberful Dictionary N - adjective Numerous.
Numberless Dictionary N - adjective Innumerable; countless.
Numberous Dictionary N - adjective Numerous.
Numbers Dictionary N - noun plural of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
Numbfish Dictionary N - noun The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.
Numbless Dictionary N - noun plural See Nombles.
Numbness Dictionary N - noun The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
Numerable Dictionary N - verb transitive Capable of being numbered or counted.
Numeral Dictionary N - noun Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals.
Numerally Dictionary N - adverb According to number; in number; numerically.
Numerary Dictionary N - adjective Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body.
Numerated Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Numerate.
Numerating Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Numerate.
Numerate Dictionary N - verb To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.
Numeration Dictionary N - noun The act or art of numbering.
Numerative Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to numeration; as, a numerative system.
Numerator Dictionary N - noun One who numbers.
Numeric Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Numerical.
Numerical Dictionary N - noun Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as, numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical statement.
Numerically Dictionary N - adverb In a numerical manner; in numbers; with respect to number, or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.
Numerist Dictionary N - noun One who deals in numbers.
Numero Dictionary N - noun Number; - often abbrev. No.
Numerosity Dictionary N - noun The state of being numerous; numerousness.
Numerous Dictionary N - adjective Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.
Numidian Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa.
Numismatic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Numismatical.
Numismatical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to coins; relating to the science of coins or medals.
Numismatics Dictionary N - noun The science of coins and medals.
Numismatist Dictionary N - noun One skilled in numismatics; a numismatologist.
Numismatography Dictionary N - noun A treatise on, or description of, coins and medals.
Numismatologist Dictionary N - noun One versed in numismatology.
Numismatology Dictionary N - noun The science which treats of coins and medals, in their relation to history; numismatics.
Nummary Dictionary N - adjective Of or relating to coins or money.
Nummular Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nummulary.
Nummulary Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent.
Nummulation Dictionary N - noun The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.
Nummulite Dictionary N - noun A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera.
Nummulites Dictionary N - noun A genus of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.
Nummulitic Dictionary N - adjective Of, like, composed of, containing, nummulites; as, nummulitic beds.
Numps Dictionary N - noun A dolt; a blockhead.
Numskull Dictionary N - noun A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.
Numskulled Dictionary N - adjective Stupid; doltish.
Nun Dictionary N - noun A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Nunchion Dictionary N - intransitive verb A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon.
Nunciate Dictionary N - noun One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio.
Nunciature Dictionary N - noun The office of a nuncio.
Nuncios Dictionary N - pleural of Nuncio.
Nuncio Dictionary N - noun A messenger.
Nuncii Dictionary N - pleural of Nuncius.
Nuncius Dictionary N - noun A messenger.
Nuncupate Dictionary N - verb transitive To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally.
Nuncupation Dictionary N - noun The act of nuncupating.
Nuncupative Dictionary N - adjective Publicly or solemnly declaratory.
Nuncupatory Dictionary N - adjective Nuncupative; oral.
Nundinal Dictionary N - noun A nundinal letter.
Nundinary Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day.
Nundinate Dictionary N - adjective To buy and sell at fairs or markets.
Nundination Dictionary N - noun Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling.
Nunnation Dictionary N - noun The pronunciation of n at the end of words.
Nunneries Dictionary N - pleural of Nunnery.
Nunnery Dictionary N - noun A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.
Nunnish Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.
Nup Dictionary N - noun Same as Nupson.
Nuphar Dictionary N - noun A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.
Nupson Dictionary N - noun A simpleton; a fool.
Nuptial Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies.
Nuptials Dictionary N - pleural of Nuptial.
Nur Dictionary N - noun A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey.
Nurled Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nurl.
Nurling Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nurl.
Nurl Dictionary N - verb transitive To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.
Nurse Dictionary N - noun One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
Nursed Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nurse.
Nursing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nurse.
Nursehound Dictionary N - noun See Houndfish.
Nursemaid Dictionary N - noun A girl employed to attend children.
Nursepond Dictionary N - noun A pond where fish are fed.
Nurser Dictionary N - noun One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
Nurseries Dictionary N - pleural of Nursery.
Nursery Dictionary N - noun The act of nursing.
Nurserymen Dictionary N - pleural of Nurseryman.
Nurseryman Dictionary N - noun One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
Nursling Dictionary N - noun One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.
Nurstle Dictionary N - verb transitive To nurse. See Noursle.
Nurture Dictionary N - noun The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
Nurtured Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nurture.
Nurturing Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nurture.
Nustle Dictionary N - verb transitive To fondle; to cherish.
Nut Dictionary N - noun The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
Nutted Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nut.
Nutting Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nut.
Nutant Dictionary N - adjective Nodding; having the top bent downward.
Nutation Dictionary N - noun The act of nodding.
Nutbreaker Dictionary N - noun The European nuthatch.
Nut-brown Dictionary N - adjective Brown as a nut long kept and dried.
Nutcracker Dictionary N - noun An instrument for cracking nuts.
Nutgall Dictionary N - noun A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut.
Nuthatch Dictionary N - noun Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea), and others, are American.
Nuthook Dictionary N - noun A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.
Nutjobber Dictionary N - noun The nuthatch.
Nutlet Dictionary N - noun A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.
Nutmeg Dictionary N - noun The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.
Nutmegged Dictionary N - adjective Seasoned with nutmeg.
Nutpecker Dictionary N - noun The nuthatch.
Nutria Dictionary N - noun The fur of the coypu. See Coypu.
Nutrication Dictionary N - noun The act or manner of feeding.
Nutrient Dictionary N - adjective Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.
Nutriment Dictionary N - noun That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
Nutrimental Dictionary N - adjective Nutritious.
Nutritial Dictionary N - adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious.
Nutrition Dictionary N - noun In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
Nutritional Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
Nutritious Dictionary N - adjective Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
Nutritive Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
Nutriture Dictionary N - noun Nutrition; nourishment.
Nutshell Dictionary N - noun The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
Nutter Dictionary N - noun A gatherer of nuts.
Nutty Dictionary N - adjective Abounding in nuts.
Nux vomica Dictionary N - The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.
Nuzzied Dictionary N - imperative & past particle of Nuzzle.
Nuzzling Dictionary N - past particle & verb noun of Nuzzle.
Nuzzle Dictionary N - verb transitive To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Ny Dictionary N - Not I; nor I.
Nye Dictionary N - adjective & adverb Nigh.
Nyas Dictionary N - noun See Nias.
Nyctalopia Dictionary N - noun A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.
Nyctalops Dictionary N - noun One afflicted with nyctalopia.
Nyctalopy Dictionary N - noun Same as Nyctalopia.
Nycthemeron Dictionary N - noun The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours.
Nyctibune Dictionary N - noun A South American bird of the genus Nyctibius, allied to the goatsuckers.
Nyctitropic Dictionary N - adjective Turning or bending at night into special positions.
Nyctophile Dictionary N - noun Any Australian bat of the genus Nyctophilus, having a very simple nasal appendage.
Nyentek Dictionary N - noun A carnivorous mannual (Helictis moscatus, or H. orientalis), native of Eastern Asia and the Indies. It has a dorsal white stripe, and another one across the shoulders. It has a strong musky odor.
Nylghau Dictionary N - noun Alt. of Nylgau.
Nylgau Dictionary N - noun A large Asiatic antelope (Boselaphus, / Portax, tragocamelus), found in Northern India. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown.
Nymph Dictionary N - noun A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
Nymph/ Dictionary N - pleural of Nympha.
Nympha Dictionary N - noun Same as Nymph, 3.
Nymphaea Dictionary N - noun A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus.
Nymphal Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.
Nymphales Dictionary N - noun plural An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; - called also brush-footed butterflies.
Nymphean Dictionary N - adjective Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.
Nymphet Dictionary N - noun A little or young nymph.
Nymphic Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nymphical.
Nymphical Dictionary N - adjective Of or pertaining to nymphs.
Nymphiparous Dictionary N - adjective Producing pupas or nymphs.
Nymphish Dictionary N - adjective Relating to nymphs; ladylike.
Nymphlike Dictionary N - adjective Alt. of Nymphly.
Nymphly Dictionary N - adjective Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.
Nympholepsy Dictionary N - noun A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy.
Nympholeptic Dictionary N - adjective Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.
Nymphomania Dictionary N - noun Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
Nymphomany Dictionary N - noun Same as Nymphomania.
Nymphotomy Dictionary N - noun Excision of the nymphae.
Nys Dictionary N - Is not. See Nis.
Nystagmus Dictionary N - noun A rapid involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs.
Nyula Dictionary N - noun A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings.

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