(n.) See Narwhal.

(n.) An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.

(superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.

(n.) A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.

(n. & adv.) See Naught.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a noun.

(v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.

(v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

(v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.

(v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.

(v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

(n.) The middle point of the nasofrontal suture.

(n.) One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

(n.) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

(a.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored.

(n.) Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nose

(n.) That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Name

(n.) The magpie.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nap

(imp. & p. p.) of Nail

(n.) One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

(n.) One who fastens with, or drives, nails.

(n.) A name sometimes given to the nitro group or radical.

(n.) The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

(v. t.) To show that one has observed; to take public note of; remark upon; to make comments on; to refer to; as, to notice a book.

(v. t.) To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers.

(v. t.) To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.

(v. t.) To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.

() 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.

() A sentiment; an opinion.

() Sense; mind.

() An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions.

() Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it.

(n.) An annotator.

(n.) The brown coati. See Coati.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nab

(n.) An adder.

(n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.

(n.) A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nick

(n.) 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.

(n.) A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.

(v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

(v. t.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

(n.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nag

(a.) See Natant.

(a.) 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.

(a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.

(a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.

(a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.

(a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.

(a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.

(a.) Any perpendicular.

(a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.

(imp. & p. p.) of Noose

(n.) Nurse.

(n.) A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, nonane; as, nonoic acid, which is also called pelargonic acid. Cf. Pelargonic.

(n.) 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.

(n.) See Nomad, n.

(n.) A name or term.

(a.) Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh.

(n.) A small mug or cup.

(n.) A measure equivalent to a gill.

(imp. & p. p.) of Noise

(n.) One who nods; a drowsy person.

(n.) The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously.

(n.) The back part of the head or neck.

(a.) Nodose; knotty; knotted.

(n.) A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

(a.) Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

(a.) Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects.

(a.) 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.

() A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.

() A combining form (used also adjectively) designating certain compounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric, nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical NO2, or its compounds, as nitrobenzene.

(n.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes.

(n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.

(n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.

(n.) The body of nobles; the nobility.

(n.) Noble birth; nobility; dignity.

(n.) No person; no one; not anybody.

(n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.

(n.) Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.

(a.) Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities.

(a.) Guilty; -- the opposite of innocent.

(n.) A criminal.

(a.) Hurtful; injurious.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nod

(superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.

(superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

(superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.

(superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.

(superl.) Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.

(n.) A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.

(n.) A handkerchief.

(n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

(n.) The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.

(n.) Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.

(n.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.

(n.) One who, or that which, nips.

(n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.

(n.) A satirist.

(n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

(n.) The cunner.

(n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

(superl.) Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.

(adv.) In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.

(n.) A thief.

(n.) The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.

(a.) Same as Columbic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nip

(n.) A collection of nests.

(n.) A fool; an idiot, a coward.

(n.) A coward; a dastard; -- a term of utmost opprobrium.

(n.) A metallic alloy of a deep black color.

(n.) The art, process, or method of decorating metal with incised designs filled with the black alloy.

(n.) A piece of metal, or any other object, so decorated.

(n.) An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.

(n.) Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.

(n.) A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.

(adv.) In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost.

(n.) see Nylghau.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nill

() of Nim

(a.) Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.

(conj.) Neither; nor.

(v. t.) To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

(v. t.) To trifle or play.

(v. t.) To act or walk mincingly.

(v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

(n.) An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks; as, book notices; theatrical notices.

(n.) A writing communicating information or warning.

(n.) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

(adv.) In a nice manner.

(v. t.) Yeast; barm.

(a.) Somewhat new; nearly new.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Note

(adv.) By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly.

(adv.) That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular or specific designation.

(n.) A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the like; a minute distinction.

(superl.) Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.

(superl.) Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.

(n.) The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

(n.) Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; means of knowledge; express notification; announcement; warning.

(v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.

(a.) Placed in a niche.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nib

(a.) Having a nib or point.

(v. t.) To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.

(v. t.) To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait.

(n.) A small or cautious bite.

(v. t.) To observe; to see to mark; to take note of; to heed; to pay attention to.

(n.) A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

(n.) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

(n.) An intransitive verb.

(n.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

() A combining denoting a nerve, of / pertaining to a nerve / the nervous system.

(n.) The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).

(n.) Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.

(v. t.) Alt. of Nousle

(adv.) Just now; at present.

(a.) Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.

(n.) One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

(n.) One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

(n.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

(a.) Like a novice; becoming a novice.

(n.) Newness; novelty.

(adv.) In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise.

(n.) Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.

() See Nouthe.

(a.) Full of annoyance.

(a.) Annoying; disagreeable.

(n.) The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.

(n.) A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.

(n.) A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

(n.) A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.

(n.) A small or imperfect ear of maize.

(v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.

(a.) Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.

(a.) 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.

(pl. ) of Nucleus

(v. i.) To walk quickly with the head bent forward; -- often with along.

(n.) The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.

(n.) That which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (Fine Arts), the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense.

(n.) A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

(v. t.) To render trifling or futile; to make silly.

(a.) Turned so as to resemble nulls.

(a.) Having a nice sense of smell.

(a.) Critically nice; captious.

(n. pl.) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.

(a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.

(a.) Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.

(n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

(n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.

(n.) Family; lineage.

(n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.

(n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.

(n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.

(a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.

(a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.

(a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.

(a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.

(a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).

(a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.

(a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.

(n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.

(n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.

(n.) Native sodium carbonate.

(v. i.) To find fault; to be peevish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Numb

(n.) 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.

(n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.

(n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.

(n.) Numerousness; multitude.

(n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.

(n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.

(n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.

(n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

(n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.

(n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

(n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.

(n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

(n.) Number; -- often abbrev. No.

(adv.) Nothing.

(adv.) The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.

(adv.) In no degree; not at all.

(a.) Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.

(a.) Hence, vile; base; naughty.

(n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

(n.) An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.

(n.) A messenger.

(n.) The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.

(n.) A simpleton; a fool.

(a.) Nautical.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nurl

(imp. & p. p.) of Nurse

(n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

(pl. ) of Navvy

(pl. ) of Navy

(n.) A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii), native of Nepaul and Thibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nut

(a.) Nodding; having the top bent downward.

(n.) A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

(n.) The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.

(n.) The fur of the coypu. See Coypu.

(a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.

(imp. & p. p.) of Near

(adv.) In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.

(adv.) In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.

(n.) A cloudy appearance in the urine.

(n.) A little cloud; a cloud.

(a.) Alt. of Nebuly

(a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

(v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

(v. t.) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

(v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.

(v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.

(v. t.) To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.

(v. t.) To loiter; to idle.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Same as Nymph, 3.

(n.) Two folds of mucous membrane, within the labia, at the opening of the vulva.

(n.) A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NEbulE

(imp. & p. p.) of Neck

(a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked.

(a.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail.

(n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.

(n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.

(n.) An adder.

(imp. & p. p.) of Need

(n.) One who needs anything.

(n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.

(n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.

(n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

(n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.

(n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.

(v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.

(v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.

(a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard.

(adv.) Necessarily; of necessity.

(a.) Wicked.

(n.) Business; occupation.

(a.) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

(a.) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

(a.) Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.

(a.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

(n.) The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon.

(v.) To name or call.

(n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.

(n.) A cousin.

(n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

(n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.

(n.) An essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nerve

(a.) Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.

(a.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins.

(v. i.) To make and occupy a nest; to nest.

(v. i.) To lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter.

(v. i.) To move about in one's place, like a bird when shaping the interior of her nest or a young bird getting close to the parent; as, a child nestles.

(v. t.) To house, as in a nest.

(v. t.) To cherish, as a bird her young.

(imp. & p. p.) of Net

(imp. & p. p.) of Net

(a.) 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.

(adv.) Toward the neural side; -- opposed to haemad.

(a.) 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.