(n.) A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel.

(n.) The portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories; -- used, generally, for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard.

(v. t.) To change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun.

(n.) A nurse.

(v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

(v. t.) To support; to maintain.

(v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

(v. t.) To cherish; to comfort.

(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.

(v. i.) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

(v. i.) To gain nourishment.

(n.) A nurse.

(pl. ) of Nappy

(n.) An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.

(n.) Trousers made of nankeen.

(n.) The back or upper surface, as of a bird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Notch

(n.) 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.

(n.) One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha from petroleum; as, Boghead naphtha, from Boghead coal (obtained at Boghead, Scotland); crude naphtha, or light oil, from coal tar; wood naphtha, from wood, etc.

(n.) A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Perception; insight; acuteness.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.

(a.) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.

(a.) Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.

(a.) Well-known; notorious.

(n.) A person, or thing, of distinction.

(n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.

(adv.) In a notable manner.

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

(a.) Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.

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

() A manufactory where nails are made.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds.

(a.) Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.

(adv.) In a nobby manner.

(n.) A dram of spirits.

(adv.) In a nasty manner.

(n.) One who notices.

(n.) Alt. of Nargileh

(n.) A wind from the north; esp., a strong and cold north wind in Texas and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico.

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

(n.) A pale red color, with a cast of orange.

(n.) Fine linen or crape dyed of this color.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.

(n.) The science of intellectual phenomena.

(n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

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

(v. t.) The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face.

(v. t.) Small coal produced in making the nicking.

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

(a.) Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache.

(adv.) In a naive manner.

(n.) Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.

(n.) Naivete.

(adv.) In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.

(a.) Capable of being named.

(n.) See Nonesuch.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up.

(a.) Nonsuited.

(n.) A vacation between two terms of a court.

(a.) Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat.

(n.) A rest at noon; a repast at noon.

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

(n.) A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

(n.) A Japanese covered litter, carried by men.

(a.) Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory.

(n.) A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

(v. t.) To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment.

(n.) The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.

(n.) A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.

(a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.

(n.) The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

(n.) The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

(n. pl.) The entrails of a deer; the umbles.

(n.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.

(a.) Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.

(n.) A nominalist.

(n.) A verb formed from a noun.

(n.) A name; an appellation.

(n.) One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

(v. t.) Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

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

(adv.) In a noisy manner.

(a.) Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.

(a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.

(a.) Knotted.

(a.) Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.

(pl. ) of Noddy

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

(a.) Having little knots or lumps.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon.

(n.) A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.

(v. t.) To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A salt of nitrous acid.

(adv.) In a nasal manner; by the nose.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic; positive; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.

(n.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

(v. t.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the noctuids, or family Noctuidae.

(n.) A large European bat (Vespertilio, / Noctulina, altivolans).

(n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

(n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.

(a.) Hurtful; noxious.

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

(a.) Without nap; threadbare.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Brightness; luster.

(n.) Endeavor; rffort; tendency.

(n.) See Niding.

(n.) A salt of nitric acid.

(n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

(n. pl.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.

(n. pl.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.

(a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

(a.) Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.

(n.) State of being in excess.

(a.) Excessive; extravagant; inordinate.

(pl. ) of Ninny

(adv.) In the ninth place.

(n.) Same as Columbate.

(n.) A later name of columbium. See Columbium.

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

(n.) A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.

(a.) Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.

(v. t. & i.) To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Niggle

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

(a.) Nicotinic.

(v. i.) To wink; to nictitate.

(n.) A little or short note; a billet.

(a.) Darkness; clouded.

(a.) Overtaken by night; belated.

(a.) 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.

(adv.) At night; every night.

(n.) A ferruginous variety of rutile.

(n.) One who niggles.

(n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

(n.) The quality or state of being new; as, the newness of a system; the newness of a scene; newness of life.

(n.) A boy who distributes or sells newspaper.

(pl. ) of Newsman

(n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

(n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

(n.) A cipher; naught.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Nibble

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

(n.) A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Notice

(a.) Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

(a.) Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.

(a.) Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3.

(a.) Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline.

(n.) A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Nerve force. See Vital force, under Vital.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

(a.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.

(n.) An innovator.

(n.) Novelty; new things.

(n.) The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.

(n.) Something novel; a new or strange thing.

(adv.) Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.

(a.) Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.

(a.) Guilty; criminal.

(n.) Annoyance.

(pl. ) of Nucellus

(a.) Alt. of Nuclear

(a.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The body or the head of a comet.

(n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.

(n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.

(n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.

(n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.

(n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.

(n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.

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

(n.) The technical name for sodium.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.

(a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.

(a.) Conformed to truth or reality

(a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.

(a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

(a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

(a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

(a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.

(a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.

(a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

(a.) To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

(n.) The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

(n.) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists.

(n.) That which is null.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

(a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

(n.) A native; an aboriginal.

(n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.

(n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.

(n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.

(n.) Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals.

(n.) Expressing number; representing number; as, numeral letters or characters, as X or 10 for ten.

(n.) A figure or character used to express a number; as, the Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the Roman numerals, I, V, X, L, etc.

(n.) A word expressing a number.

(n.) Alt. of Numerical

(n.) Any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nÃ-1, where m and n are real numerics.

(a.) Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.

(superl.) Having little or nothing.

(superl.) Worthless; bad; good for nothing.

(superl.) hence, corrupt; wicked.

(superl.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.

(pl. ) of Nauplius

(a.) Of or relating to coins or money.

(pl. ) of Nuncio

(n.) A messenger.

(n.) The information communicated.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.

(a.) Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies.

(pl. ) of Nautilus

(n.) The commander of a fleet.

(n.) Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.

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

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

(n.) The act of nursing.

(n.) The place where nursing is carried on

(n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.

(n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.

(n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

(n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

(n.) That which is nursed.

(a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

(n.) The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.

(n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.

(v. t.) To feed; to nourish.

(v. t.) To educate; to bring or train up.

(n.) The negative side.

(n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.

(n.) 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.

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

(v. t.) To make neat.

(n.) Same as Bablh.

(pl. ) of Nebula

(a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.

(n.) Alt. of Nylgau

(a.) Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.

(n.) A little or young nymph.

(a.) Alt. of Nymphical

(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.

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

(n.) Same as Neckmold.

(n.) A necklace.

(v. t. & i.) To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis.

(n.) 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.

(pl. ) of Neddy

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

(a.) Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.

(a.) Necessary for supply or relief; requisite.

(adv.) In a needy condition or manner; necessarily.

(n.) One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles.

(adv.) Of necessity.

(adv.) 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.

(adv.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

(v.) Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

(v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

(v.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.

(v.) The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.

(n.) The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

(n.) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.

(n.) An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.

(n.) A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.

(n.) A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.

(imp. & p. p.) of Neigh

(a.) Not either; not the one or the other.

(conj.) not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more coordinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.

() A combining form from Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a wood or grove.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A new doctrine; esp. (Theol.), a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.

(n.) A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within.

(a.) Of or relating to a nephew.

(a.) Of or pertaining to npotism.

(a.) Nerved.

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

(a.) Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.

(n.) A nervine agent.

(a.) Same as Nerved.

(a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

(a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.

(a.) Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.

(a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.

(n.) One of the nerves of leaves.

(n.) One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.

(n.) As much or many as will fill a nest.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nestle

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

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

(n.) The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.

(n.) A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.

(n.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.

(n.) Urine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nettle

(n.) One who nettles.

(n. pl.) The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

(n. pl.) Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

(n. pl.) Reef points.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

() A not using; failure to use.

() Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right.

(a.) Recently born.

(a.) Recently come.

(n.) One who brings news.

(n.) A man who distributes or sells newspapers.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The negative of self.

(n.) A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.

(n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.