N – Neatress

N

N is the fourteenth letter of the English Alphabet, and an articulation formed by placing the end of the tongue against the root of the upper teeth. It is an imperfect mute or semi-vowel, and a nasal letter; the articulation being accompanied with a sound through the nose. It has one sound only, and after m is silent or nearly so, as in hymn and condemn. n among the ancients, was a numeral letter signifying 900, and with a stroke over it, 9000. Among the lawyers, n Latin stood for non liquet, the case is not clear. In commerce, No. Is an abbreviation of the French nombre, and stands for number. n S. stands for New Style.

Nab

NAB, noun The summit of a mountain or rock.

NAB, verb transitive To catch suddenly; to seize by a sudden grasp or thrust; a word little used and only in low language.

Nabob

NABOB, noun

1. A deputy or prince in India, subordinate to the Subahs; hence,

2. A man of great wealth.

NACKER. [See Naker]

Nacreous

NACREOUS, adjective [see Naker.] Having a pearly luster.

Nacrite

NACRITE, noun [See Naker.] A rare mineral, called also talckite, consisting of scaly parts; glimmering, pearly, friable, with a greasy feel; the color, a greenish white.

Nactareous

NACTAREOUS, adjective Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.

The juice nectareous and the balmy dew.

Nadir

NADIR, noun

1. Natara, to be like, proportional, corresponding to, opposite.

2. That point of the heavens or lower hemisphere directly opposite to the zenith; the point directly under the place where we stand.

Nadle-Stein

NADLE-STEIN, noun Needle-stone; rutile.

Naeve

NAEVE, noun A spot.

Nafe

NAFE, noun A kind of tufted sea-fowl.

Naff

NAFF, noun A kind of tufted sea-fowl.

Nag

NAG, noun

1. A small horse; a horse in general, or rather a sprightly horse.

2. A paramour; in contempt.

Naiad

NAIAD, noun To flow.

1. In mythology, a water nymph; a deity that presides over rivers and springs.

Naid

NAID, noun To flow

Nail

NAIL, noun If the word was originally applied to a claw or talon, the primary sense may be to catch, or it may be a shoot.

1. The claw or talon of a fowl or other animal.

2. The horny substance growing at the end of the human fingers and toes.

3. A small pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, to be driven into a board or other piece of timber, and serving to fasten it to other timber. The larger kinds of instruments of this sort are called spikes; and a long thin kind with a flattish head, is called a brad.

4. A stud or boss; a short nail with a large broad head.

5. A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the 16th of a yard.

6. On the nail in hand; immediately; without delay or time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail

7. To hit the nail on the head, to hit or touch the exact point.

NAIL, verb transitive

1. To fasten with nails; to unite, close or make compact with nails.

2. To stud with nails.

3. To stop the vent of a cannon; to spike.

Nailed

NAILED, participle passive Fastened with nails; studded.

Nailer

NAILER, noun One whose occupation is to make nails.

Nailery

NAILERY, noun A manufactory where nails are made.

Nailing

NAILING, ppr. Fastening with nails; studding.

Naively

NAIVELY, adverb With native or unaffected simplicity.

Naivete

NAIVETE, noun Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness.

Naivty

NAIVTY, noun Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness.

Naked

NAKED, adjective Open, discovered, to strip.

1. Not covered; bare; having no clothes on; as a naked body or a naked limb.

2. Unarmed; defenseless; open; exposed; having no means of defense or protection against an enemys attack, or against other injury.

Behold my bosom naked to your swords.

3. Open to view; not concealed; manifest. Hebrews 4:13.

4. Destitute of worldly goods. Job 1:21.

5. Exposed to shame and disgrace. Exodus 32:25.

6. Guilty and exposed to divine wrath. Revelations 3.

7. Plain; evident; undisguised; as the naked truth.

8. Mere; bare; simple; wanting the necessary additions. God requires of man something besides the naked belief of his being and his word.

9. Not inclosed in a pod or case; as naked seeds of a plant.

10. Without leaves, fulcres or arms; as a naked stem or trunk.

11. Not assisted by glasses; as the naked eye.

Nakedly

NAKEDLY, adverb

1. Without covering.

2. Simply ; barely ; merely; in the abstract.

3. Evidently.

Nakedness

NAKEDNESS, noun

1. Want of covering or clothing; nudity; bareness.

2. Want of means of defense.

Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land are ye come. Genesis 42:9.

3. Plainness; openness to view.

To uncover nakedness in Scripture, is to have incestuous or unlawful commerce with a female.

Naker

NAKER, noun Mother of pearl; the white substance which constitutes the interior surface of a shell producing a pearl.

Nall

NALL, noun An awl, such as collar-makers or shoe-makers use.

Name

NAME, noun

1. That by which a thing is called; the sound or combination of sounds used to express an idea, or any material substance, quality or act; an appellation attached to a thing by customary use, by which it may be vocally distinguished from other things. A name may be attached to an individual only, and is then proper or appropriate, as John, Thomas, London, Paris; or it may be attached to a species, genus, or class of things, as sheep, goat, horse, tree, animal, which are called common names, specific or generic.

2. The letters or characters written or engraved, expressing the sounds by which a person or thing is known and distinguished.

3. A person.

They list with women each degenerate name

4. Reputation; character; that which is commonly said of a person; as a good name; a bad name

5. Renown; fame; honor; celebrity; eminence; praise; distinction.

What men of name resort to him?

6. Remembrance; memory.

The Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. Deuteronomy 29:20.

7. Appearance only; sound only; not reality; as a friend in name Revelation 3:1.

8. Authority; behalf; part; as in the name of the people. When a man speaks or acts in the name of another, he does it by their authority or in their behalf, as their representative.

9. Assumed character of another.

Had forged a treason in my patrons name

10. In Scripture, the name of God signifies his titles, his attributes, his will or purpose, , his honor and glory, his word, his grace, his wisdom, power and goodness, his worship or service, or God himself.

11. Issue; posterity that preserves the name Deuteronomy 25:6.

12. In grammar, a noun.

To call names, to apply opprobrious names; to call by reproachful appellations.

To take the name of God in vain, to swear falsely or profanely, , or to use the name of God with levity or contempt. Exodus 20:7.

To know by name to honor by a particular friendship or familiarity. Exodus 33:12.

Christian name the name a person receives by baptism, as distinguished from surname.

NAME, verb transitive to call, to name to invoke.

1. To set or give to any person or thing a sound or combination of sounds by which it may be known and distinguished ; to call; to give an appellation to.

She named the child Ichabod. 1 Samuel 4:21.

Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work confusion named.

2. To mention by name; to utter or pronounce the sound or sounds by which a person or thing is known and distinguished.

Neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.

3. To nominate; to designate for any purpose by name

Thou shalt anoint to me him whom I name to thee. I Samuel 16.

4. To entitle.

To the name of Christ, to make profession of faith in him. 2 Timothy 4:1.

Named

NAMED, participle passive Called; denominated; designated by name.

Nameless

NAMELESS, adjective

1. Without a name; not distinguished by an appellation; as a nameless star.

2. He or that whose name is not known or mentioned.

Namely

NAMELY, adverb To mention by name; particularly.

For the excellency of the soul, namely its power of divining in dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none can question.

Namer

NAMER, noun One that names or calls by name.

Namesake

NAMESAKE, noun One that has the same name as another.

Naming

NAMING, participle present tense Calling; nominating; mentioning.

Nan

NULL, verb transitive [Latin not any.] To annul; to deprive of validity; to destroy. [Not much used.] [See Annul.]

NULL, adjective Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid. The contract of a minor is null in law, except for necessaries.

NULL, noun Something that has no force or meaning. A cipher is called a null [Not used.]

Nan

NAN, a Welsh word signifying what, used as an interrogative. [This word has been extensively used within my memory by the common people of New England.]

Nankeen

NANKEEN, noun [Nankin a Chinese word.] A species of cotton cloth of a firm texture, from China, now imitated by the manufacturers in Great Britain.

Nap

NAP, noun To lean, that is, to nod.

1. A short sleep or slumber.

NAP, verb intransitive

1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy.

2. To be in a careless, secure state.

NAP, noun

1. The woolly or villous substance on the surface of cloth.

2. The downy or soft hairy substance on plants.

3. A knop.

Nape

NAPE, noun A knob; to be hard or callous, whence a callus.

1. The prominent joint of the neck behind.

Napery

NAPERY, noun Linen for the table; table cloths or linen cloth in general.

Naphew

NAPHEW, noun [a turnep; a knob] A plant.

Naphtha

NAPHTHA, noun [from nafata, to push out, as pustules, to throw out, to boil, to be angry. In Ambaric, neft or nepht, from this sense, signifies a gun or musket.]

1. An inflammable mineral substance of the bituminous kind, of a light brown or yellowish color, sharp taste, and incapable of decomposition. By long keeping it hardens into a substance resembling vegetable resin, and becomes black. It is as inflammable as ether. It is said to issue from the earth at Baku, in Persia, and to be received into cisterns.

2. naphtha consists of carbon and hydrogen.

Naphthaline

NAPHTHALINE, noun A peculiar crystalizable substance, deposited from naphtha distilled from coal tar, consisting of hydrogen and carbon.

Napkin

NAPKIN, noun [nape, cloth; of which napkin is a diminutive.]

1. A cloth used for wiping the hands; a towel.

2. A handkerchief.

Napless

NAPLESS, adjective Without nap; threadbare.

Nappal

NAPPAL, noun Soap rock.

Nappiness

NAPPINESS, noun

1. The quality of being sleepy or inclined to take naps.

2. The quality of having a nap; abundance of nap; as on cloth.

Nappy

NAPPY adjective [from nap.] frothy

Naptaking

NAPTAKING, adjective Taking naps.

NAPTAKING, noun A taking by surprise, as when one is not on his guard; unexpected onset when one is unprepared.

Narcissus

NARCISSUS, noun In botany, the daffodil, a genus of plants of several species. They are of the bulbous rooted tribe, perennial in root, but with annual leaves and flower stalks.

Narcotic

NARCOTIC, noun A medicine which stupefies the senses and renders insensible to pain; hence, a medicine which induces sleep; a soporific; and opiate.

Narcotically

NARCOTICALLY, adverb By producing torpor or drowsiness.

Narcoticness

NARCOTICNESS, noun The quality of inducing sleep or removing pain.

Narcotine

NARCOTINE, noun The pure narcotic principle of opium.

Nard

NARD, noun

1. A plant usually called spikenard, spica nardi; highly valued by the ancients, both as an article of luxury and of medicine. It is an odorous or aromatic plant.

2. An unguent prepared from the plant.

Nardine

NARDINE, adjective Pertaining to nard; having the qualities of spikenard.

Nare

NARE, noun The nostril.

Narrable

NARRABLE, adjective That may be related, told, or narrated.

Narrate

NARRATE, verb transitive

1. To tell, rehearse or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of any event or transaction , or any series of incidents.

2. To write, as the particulars of a story or history, We never say, to narrate a sentence, a sermon or an oration, but we narrate a story, or the particular events which have fallen under our observation, or which we have heard related.

Narrated

NARRATED, participle passive Related; told.

Narrating

NARRATING, participle present tense Relating; telling; reciting.

Narration

NARRATION, noun

1. The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

2. Relation; story; history; the relation in words or writing, of the particulars of any transaction or event, , or of any series of transactions or events.

3. In oratory, that part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action , or simply states the facts connected with the subject.

Narrative

NARRATIVE, adjective

1. Relating the particulars of an event or transaction; giving a particular or continued account.

2. Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling.

But wise through time and narrative with age.

NARRATIVE, noun The recital of a story, or a continued account of the particulars of an event or transaction; story.

Cynthio was much taken with my narrative

Narratively

NARRATIVELY, adverb By way of narration, story, or recital.

Narrator

NARRATOR, noun One that narrates; one that relates a series of events or transactions.

Narratory

NARRATORY, adjective Giving an account of events.

Narrow

NARROW, adjective I suspect this word and near to be contracted by the loss of g, nig, narrow strait; nigiaw, to narrow; for the D. has naauw, narrow close, G. with a prefix. In this case, the word belongs to the root of nigh; to approach.

1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow sea; a narrow hem or border. It is only or chiefly applied to the surface of flat or level bodies.

2. Of little extent; very limited; as a narrow space or compass.

3. Covetous; not liberal or bountiful; as a narrow heart.

4. Contracted; of confined views or sentiments; very limited.

The greatest understanding is narrow

In this sense and the former, it is often prefixed to mind or soul, _ c. ; as narrow-minded; narrow-souled; narrow-hearted.

5. Near; within a small distance.

6. Close; near; accurate; scrutinizing; as a narrow search; narrow inspection.

7. Near; barely sufficient to avoid evil; as a narrow escape.

NARROW, noun A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometimes in the singular.

Narrowed

NARROWED, participle passive Contracted; made less wide.

Narrowing

NARROWING, ppr. Contracting; making less broad.

Narrowings

NARROWINGS, noun The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

Narrowly

NARROWLY, adverb

1. With little breadth.

2. Contractedly; without much extent.

3. Closely; accurately; with minute scrutiny; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly

4. Nearly; within a little; by a small distance; as, he narrowly escaped.

5. Sparingly.

Narrowness

NARROWNESS, noun

1. Smallness of breadth or distance from side to side; as the narrowness of cloth, of a street or highway, of a stream or sea.

2. Smallness of extent; contractedness; as the narrowness of capacity or comprehension; narrowness of knowledge or attainments.

3. Smallness of estate or means of living; poverty; as the narrowness of fortune or of circumstances.

4. Contractedness; penuriousness; covetousness; as narrowness of heart.

5. Illiberality; want of generous, enlarged or charitable views or sentiments; as narrowness of mind or views.

Narrows

NARROWS, noun A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometimes in the singular.

NARROW, verb transitive

1.To lessen the breadth of; to contract.

A government, by alienating the affections of the people, may be said to narrow its bottom.

2. To contract in extent; as, to narrow ones influence; to narrow the faculties or capacity.

3. To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to limit; to confine; as, to narrow our views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.

4. In knitting, to contract the size of a stocking by taking two stitches into one.

NARROW, verb intransitive

1. To become less broad; to contract in breadth. At that place, the sea narrows into a strait.

2. In horsemanship, a horse is said to narrow, when he does not take ground enough, or bear out enough to the one hand or the other.

3. To contract the size of a stocking by taking two stitches into one.

Narwal

NARWAL, noun The Monodon monoceros, a cetaceous animal found in the northern seas, which grows to twenty feet in length. The spiracle of this animal is on the anterior part of the skull. When young it has two teeth or horns, but when old it has but one, which projects from the upper jaw and is spiral. From this circumstance of its having one horn only, it has obtained the name of the sea unicorn, or unicorn fish.

Nas

NAS, for ne has, has not.

Nasal

NASAL, adjective Pertaining to the nose; formed or affected by the nose; as a nasal sound; a nasal letter.

NASAL, noun

1. A letter whose sound is affected by the nose.

2. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.

Nascal

NASCAL, noun

1. A kind of medicated pessary.

2. Pessary made of wool or cotton, to raise the nose when compressed.

Nascent

NASCENT, adjective [to be born] beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being.

Naseberry

NASEBERRY, noun The naseberry tree is a species of the genus Sloanea.

Nasicornous

NASICORNOUS, adjective Having a horn growing on the nose.

Nastily

NASTILY, adverb

1. In a nasty manner; filthily; dirtily.

2. Obscenely.

Nastiness

NASTINESS, noun

1. Extreme filthiness; dirtiness; filth.

2. Obscenity; ribaldry.

Nasturtion

NASTURTION, noun A plant of the genus Tropaeolum; Indian cresses.

Nasty

NASTY, adjective

1. Disgustingly filthy; very dirty, foul or defiled; nauseous.

2. Obscene.

Nasus

NASUS, noun A fresh water fish, about nine inches in length, resembling the chub. It is found in the Danube, Rhine and other large rivers of Germany.

Natal

NATAL, adjective Pertaining to birth. The natal day is the day of birth or nativity. So we say, natal hour; natal place.

Natalitial

NATALITIAL, adjective Pertaining to ones birth or birth day, or consecrated to ones activity.

Natalitious

NATALITIOUS, adjective Pertaining to ones birth or birth day, or consecrated to ones nativity.

Natant

NATANT, adjective In botany, swimming; floating on the surface of water; as the leaf of an aquatic plant.

Natation

NATATION, noun A swimming; the act of floating on the water

Natatory

NATATORY, adjective Enabling to swim.

Natch

NATCH, noun The part of an ox between the loins, near the rump.

Nathless

NATHLESS, adverb Nevertheless; not the less; notwithstanding.

Nathmore

NATHMORE, adverb Not the more; never the more.

Nation

NATION, noun [to be born]

1. A body of people inhabiting the same country, or united under the same sovereign or government; as the English nation; the French nation It often happens that many nations are subject to one government; in which case, the word nation usually denotes a body of people speaking the same language, or a body that has formerly been under a distinct government, but has been conquered, or incorporated with a larger nation Thus the empire of Russia comprehends many nations, as did formerly the Roman and Persian empires. nation as its etymology imports, originally denoted a family or race of men descended from a common progenitor, like tribe, but by emigration, conquest and intermixture of men of different families, this distinction is in most countries lost.

2. A great number, by way of emphasis.

National

NATIONAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a nation; as national customs, dress or language.

2. Public; general; common to a nation; as a national calamity.

3. Attached or unduly attached to ones own country. The writer manifested much national prejudice. He was too national to be impartial.

Nationality

NATIONALITY, noun National character; also, the quality of being national, or strongly attached to ones own nation.

Nationalize

NATIONALIZE, verb transitive To make national; to give to one the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar attachments which belong to citizens of the same nation.

Nationally

NATIONALLY, adverb In regard to the nation; as a whole nation.

The jews-bing nationally espoused to God by covenant.

Native

NATIVE, adjective

1. Produced by nature; original; born with the being; natural; not acquired; as native genius; native affections; a native talent or disposition; native cheerfulness; native simplicity.

2. Produced by nature; not factitious or artificial; as native ore; native color.

3. Conferred by birth; as native rights and privileges.

4. Pertaining to the place of birth; as native soil; native country; native graves.

5. Original; that of which any thing is made; as mans native dust.

6. Born with; congenial.

NATIVE, noun

1. One born in any place is said to be a native of that place, whether country, city or town.

2. Offspring.

Natively

NATIVELY, adverb By birth, naturally; originally.

Nativeness

NATIVENESS, noun State of being produced by nature.

Nativity

NATIVITY, noun

1. Birth; the coming into life or the world. The feast of Christmas is observed in memory of Christs nativity

2. Time, place and manner of birth; as, to calculate ones nativity

3. State or place of being produced.

These, in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us pregnant with infernal flame.

Natka

NATKA, noun A bird, a species of shrike.

Natrolite

NATROLITE, noun A variety of mesotype or zeolite, so called by Klaproth on account of the great quantity of soda it contains.

Natron

NATRON, noun Native carbonate of soda, or mineral alkali. [See niter]

Natural

NATURAL, adjective [to be born or produced]

1. Pertaining to nature; produced or effected by nature, or by the laws of growth, formation or motion impressed on bodies or beings by divine power. Thus we speak of 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; natural beauty. In this sense, natural is opposed to artificial or acquired.

2. According to the stated course of things. Poverty and shame are the natural consequences of certain vices.

3. Not forced; not far fetched; such as is dictated by nature. The gestures of the orator are natural

4. According to the life; as a natural representation of the face.

5. Consonant to nature.

Fire and warmth go together, and so seem to carry with them as natural an evidence as self-evident truths themselves.

6. Derived from nature, as opposed to habitual. The love of pleasure is natural ; the love of study is usually habitual or acquired.

7. Discoverable by reason; not revealed; as natural religion.

8. Produced or coming in the ordinary course of things, or the progress or animals and vegetables; as a natural death; opposed to violent or premature.

9. Tender; affectionate by nature.

10. Unaffected; unassumed; according to truth and reality.

What can be more natural than the circumstances of the behavior of those women who had lost heir husbands on this fatal day?

11. Illegitimate; born out of wedlock; as a natural son.

12. Native; vernacular; as ones natural language.

13. Derived from the study of the works or nature; as natural knowledge.

14. A natural note, in music, is that which is according to the usual order of the scale; opposed to flat and sharp notes, which are called artificial.

NATURAL history, in its most extensive sense, is the description of whatever is created, or of the whole universe, including the heavens and the earth, and all the productions of the earth. But more generally, natural history is limited to a description of the earth and its productions, including zoology, botany, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, _ c.

NATURAL philosophy, the science of material natural bodies, of their properties, powers and motions. It is distinguished from intellectual and moral philosophy, which respect the mind or understanding of man and the qualities of actions. natural philosophy comprehends mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, chimistry, magnetism, eletricity, galvanism, _ c.

NATURAL, noun

1. An idiot; one born without the usual powers of reason or understanding. This is probably elliptical for natural fool.

2. A native; an original inhabitant.

3. Gift of nature; natural quality.

Naturalism

NATURALISM, noun Mere state of nature.

Naturalist

NATURALIST, noun One that studies natural history and philosophy or physics; one that is versed in natural history or philosophy. It is more generally applied to one that is versed in natural history.

Naturalization

NATURALIZATION, noun [See Naturalize] The act of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen. naturalization in Great Britain is only by act of parliament. In the United States, it is by act of Congress, vesting certain tribunals with the power.

Naturalize

NATURALIZE, verb transitive [from natural, nature.]

1. To confer on an alien the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen; to adopt foreigners into a nation or state, and place them in the condition of natural born subjects.

2. To make natural; to render easy and familiar by custom and habit; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

3. To adapt; to make suitable; to acclimate; as, to naturalize one to a climate.

4. To receive or adopt as native, natural or vernacular; to make our own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

5. To accustom; to habituate; as, to naturalize the vine to a cold climate.

Naturalized

NATURALIZED, participle passive Invested with the privileges of natives; rendered easy and familiar; adapted to a climate; acclimated; received as native.

Naturalizing

NATURALIZING, participle present tense Vesting with the rights of native subjects; making easy; acclimating; adopting.

Naturally

NATURALLY, adverb

1. According to nature; by the force or impulse of nature; not by art or habit. We are naturally prone to evil.

2. According to nature; without affectation; with just representation; according to life.

3. According to the usual course of things; as, the effect or consequence naturally follows.

4. Spontaneously; without art or cultivation. Every plant must have grown naturally in some place or other.

Naturalness

NATURALNESS, noun

1. The state of being given or produced by nature; as the naturalness of desire.

2. Conformity to nature, or to truth and reality; not affectation ; as the naturalness of the eyebrows.

Naturals

NATURALS, noun plural Among physicians, whatever belongs naturally to an animal; opposed to non-naturals. [ It may perhaps be sometimes used in the singular.]

Nature

NATURE, noun [Latin from nature born, produced, ]

1. In a general sense, whatever is made or produced; a word that comprehends all the works of God; the universe. Of a phoenix we say, there is no such thing in nature

And look through nature up to natures God.

2. By a metonymy of the effect for the cause, nature is used for the agent, creator, author, producer of things, or for the powers that produce them. By the expression, trees and fossils are produced by nature we mean, they are formed or produced by certain inherent powers in matter, or we mean that they are produced by God, the Creator, the Author of whatever is made or produced. The opinion that things are produced by inherent powers of matter, independent of a supreme intelligent author, is atheism. But generally men mean by nature thus used, the Author of created things, or the operation of his power.

3. The essence, essential qualities or attributes of a thing, which constitute it what it is; as the nature of the soul; the nature of blood; the nature of a fluid; the nature of plants, or of a metal; the nature of a circle or an angle. When we speak of the nature of man, we understand the peculiar constitution of his body or mind, or the qualities of the species which distinguish him from other animals. When we speak of the nature of a man, or an individual of the race, we mean his particular qualities or constitution; either the peculiar temperament of his body, or the affections of his mind, his natural appetites, passions, disposition or temper. So of irrational animals.

4. The established or regular course of things; as when we say, an event is not according to nature or it is out of the order of nature

5. A law or principle of action or motion in a natural body. A stone by nature falls, or inclines to fall.

6. Constitution aggregate powers of a body, especially a living one. We say, nature is strong or weak; nature is almost exhausted.

7. The constitution and appearances of things.

The works, whether of poets, painters, moralists or historians, which are built upon general nature live forever.

8. Natural affection or reverence.

Have we not seen, the murdering son ascend his parents bed through violated nature force his way?

9. System of created things.

He binding nature fast in fate, Left conscience free and will.

10. Sort; species; kind; particular character.

A dispute of this nature caused mischief to a king and an archbishop.

11. Sentiments r images conformed to nature or to truth and reality.

Only nature can please those tastes which are unprejudiced and refined.

12. Birth. No man is noble by nature

NATURE, verb transitive To endow with natural qualities. [Not in use]

Naturist

NATURIST, noun One who ascribes every thing t nature.

Naturity

NATURITY, noun The quality or state of being produced by nature. [ A very bad word and not used.]

Naufrage

NAUFRAGE, noun [Latin A ship, and to break See wreck, which is from the same root, break] Shipwreck. [Not in use]

Naufragous

NAUFRAGOUS, adjective Causing shipwreck. [Little used]

Naught

NAUGHT, noun Nothing.

Doth Job serve God for naught? Job 1:9.

Thou sellest thy people for naught Psalms 44:12.

To set at naught to slight, to disregard or despise.

Ye have set at naught all my counsel. Proverbs 1:25.

NAUGHT, adverb In no degree

To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.

NAUGHT, adjective Bad; worthless; of no value or account.

Things naught and things indifferent.

It is naught it is naught says the buyer. Proverbs 20:14.

Naughtily

NAUGHTILY, adverb nautily. Wickedly; corruptly.

Naughtiness

NAUGHTINESS, noun Nautiness.

1. Badness; wickedness; evil principle or purpose.

I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart. 1 Samuel 17:28.

2. Slight wickedness of children; perverseness; mischievousness.

, adjective Nauty.

1. Wicked; corrupt.

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Proverbs 6:1.

2. Bad; worthless.

The other basket had very naughty figs. Jeremiah 24:1.

3. Mischievous; perverse; froward; as a naughty child. It is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children.

Naulage

NAULAGE, noun The freight of passengers in a ship.

Naumachy

NAUMACHY, noun

1. Among the ancient Romans, a show or spectacle representing a sea-fight.

2. The place where these shows were exhibited.

Nausea

NAUSEA, noun Originally and properly, sea-sickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach, accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; loathing; squeamishness of the stomach.

Nauseate

NAUSEATE, verb transitive

1. To lothe; to reject with disgust.

The patient nauseates and lothes wholesome foods.

Old age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the praise which in her youth she won.

2. To affect with disgust.

Nauseous

NAUSEOUS, adjective Lothesome; disgustful; disgusting; regarded with abhorrence; as a nauseous drug or medicine.

Nauseously

NAUSEOUSLY, adverb Lothesomely; disgustfully.

Nauseousness

NAUSEOUSNESS, noun Lothesomeness; quality of exciting disgust; as the nauseousness of a drug or medicine.

The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man.

Nautic

NAUTIC, adjective [Latin A seaman, a ship, See Navy] Pertaining to seamen or navigation; as nautical skill; a nautical almanack.

Nautical

NAUTICAL, adjective [Latin A seaman, a ship, See Navy] Pertaining to seamen or navigation; as nautical skill; a nautical almanack.

Nautilite

NAUTILITE, noun A fossil nautilus.

Nautilus

NAUTILUS, noun [Latin , Gr. A ship] A genus of marine animals, whose shell consists of one spiral valve divided into several apartments by partitions. There are many species. This animal, when it sails, extends two of its arms, and between these supports a membrane that serves as a sail. With two other arms it rows or steers.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail.

Naval

NAVAL, adjective [Latin Gr. A ship]

1. Consisting of ships; as a naval force or armament.

2. Pertaining to ships; as naval stores.

Navals

NAVALS, noun Naval affairs. [Not used]

Navarch

NAVARCH, noun In ancient Greece, the commander of a fleet.

Navarchy

NAVARCHY, noun [from Latin And admiral.] Knowledge of managing ships.

Nave

NAVE, noun

1. The thick piece of timber in the center of a wheel, in which the spokes are inserted; called also the hob.

2. The middle or body of a church extending from the balluster or rail of the door, to the chief choir.

Navel

NAVEL, noun The center of the lower part of the abdomen, or the point where the umbilical cord passes out of the fetus. The umbilical cord is a collection of vessels by which the fetus of an animal communicates with the parent by means of the placenta, to which it is attached.

Navel-String

NAVEL-STRING, noun The umbilical cord. [See navel]

Navel-Wort

NAVEL-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Cotyledon. It has the appearance of houseleek.

Navew

NAVEW, n. A plant of the genus Brassica. It has a spindle-shaped root, less than the turnep.

Navicular

NAVICULAR, adjective [Latin , a little ship]

1. Relating to small ships or boats.

2. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform. The navicular bone is the scaphoid bone of the wrist.

Navigable

NAVIGABLE, adjective [Latin From navigo, to sail, from navis, a ship] To pass on water in ships; to sail.

The Phoenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western ocean.

Navigate

NAVIGATE, verb transitive

1. To pass over in ships; to sail on ; as to navigate the Atlantic.

2. To steer, direct or manage in sailing; as, to navigate a ship.

Navigation

NAVIGATION, participle present tense Passing on or over in sailing; steering and managing in sailing.

NAVIGATION, noun

1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels.

2. The art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another. This art comprehends not only the management of the sails, but the directing and measuring of the course of ships by the laws of geometry, or by astronomical principles and observations.

3. Ships in general.

Aerial navigation the sailing or floating in the air by means of balloons.

Inland navigation the passing of boats or small vessels on rivers, lakes or canals, in the interior of a country; conveyance by boats or vessels in the interior of a country.

Navigator

NAVIGATOR, noun One that navigates or sails; chiefly, one who directs the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation. We say, a bold navigator an experienced navigator an able navigator

Navy

NAVY, noun [Gr. From to swim. To swim then is to move up and down.]

1. A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.

The navy of Hiram brought gold from Ophir. 1 Kings 10:11.

2. The whole of the ships of war belonging to a nation or king. The navy of Great Britain is the defense of the kingdom and its commerce. This is the usual acceptation of the word.

Nawl

NAWL, noun An awl. [Not in use]

Nay

NAY, adverb [a contracted word, to deny]

1. No; a word that expresses negation.

I tell you nay but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3.

2. It expresses also refusal.

He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay

[In these senses it is now rarely used; no being substituted.]

3. Not only so; not this alone; intimating that something is to be added y way of amplification. He requested an answer; nay he urged it.

NAY, noun Denial, refusal.

NAY, verb transitive To refuse. [Not in use]

Nayward

NAYWARD, noun Tendency to denial. [Not used]

Nayword

NAYWORD, noun A by-word; a proverbial reproach; a watch-word.

NAZARENEn. An inhabitant of Nazareth; one of the early converts to Christianity; in contempt. Acts 24:1.

Nazarite

NAZARITE, noun A jew who professed extraordinary purity of life and devotion.

Nazaritism

NAZARITISM, noun The doctrines of practice of the Nazarites.

Ne

NE, not, is obsolete. We find it in early English writers, prefixed to other words; as nill, for ne will, will not; nas, for ne has, has not; nis for ne is, is not.

Neaf

NEAF, noun The fist.

Neal

NEAL, verb transitive To temper and reduce to a due consistence by heat. But neal is now rarely used. [See Anneal]

NEAL, verb intransitive To be tempered by heat. [Little used] [See Anneal]

Neap

NEAP, noun [This word may belong to the root of neb, nib; nose] The tongue or pole of a cart, sled or wagon.

NEAP, adjective [to incline, to fall] The neap tides are those which happen in the middle of the second and fourth quarters of the moon. They are low tides, and opposed to spring tides.

NEAP, noun Low water. [Little used.]

Neap-Tide

NEAP-TIDE, noun Low tide. [See Neap.]

Neaped

NEAPED, BENEAPED, adjective Left aground. A ship is said to be neaped when left aground, particularly on the height of a spring tide, so that she will not float till the return of the next spring tide.

Neapolitan

NEAPOLITAN, adjective Belonging to Naples, in Italy.

NEAPOLITAN, noun An inhabitant or native of the kingdom of Naples.

Near

NEAR, adjective [This seems to be a contracted word, from nigher, the comparative of neh, nih or nieh; strait, narrow; to narrow]

1. Nigh; not far distant in place, time or degree. Regularly, near should be followed by to, but this is often omitted. We say, a house stands near a river; a friend sits near me; the man fell and was near destruction.

And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. Genesis 27:21.

Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Romans 13:11.

2. Closely related by blood.

She is thy fathers near kinswoman. Leviticus 18:6.

3. Not distant in affection, support or assistance; present; ready; willing to aid.

Call upon the Lord, while he is near Isaiah 55:6.

4. Intimate; united in close ties of affection or confidence; as a near friend.

5. Dear; affecting ones interest or feelings; as a near concern.

My nearest life.

6. Close; parsimonious.

7. Close; not loose, free or rambling; as a version near the original.

8. Next to one; opposed to off; as the near horse or ox in a team.

NEAR, adverb Almost; within a little. It is near twelve oclock. The payment of such a sum would go near to ruin him.

NEAR, verb transitive To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land; a seamans phrase.

Nearest

NEAREST, adjective Shortest; most direct; as the nearest way to London. So we use nearer for shorter. [The use of these words is not correct, but very common.]

Nearly

NEARLY, adverb

1. At no great distance; not remotely.

2. Closely; as two persons nearly related or allied.

3. Intimately; pressingly; with a close relation to ones interest or happiness. It nearly concerns us to preserve peace with our neighbor.

4. Almost; within a little. The fact is nearly demonstrated.

5. In a parsimonious or niggardly manner.

Nearness

NEARNESS, noun

1. Closeness; small distance. The nearness of a place to a market enhances the value of lands.

2. Close alliance by blood; propinquity; as the nearness of brothers and sisters, parents and children.

3. Close union by affection; intimacy of friendship.

4. Parsimony; closeness in expenses.

Neat

NEAT, noun [Neat coincides with the root of need in elements, and if connected with it, the sense is a herd or collection, from crowding, pressing; but this is doubtful.]

1. Cattle of the bovine genus, as bulls, oxen and cows. In America, this word is used in composition, as in neats tongue, neats foot oil, and tautologically in neat cattle.

2. A single cow.

NEAT, adjective [Latin to shine, to be clean, fair or fine; pure, to purify, to winnow.]

1. Very clean; free from foul or extraneous matter; as neat clothes. The vessels are kept neat; the woman keeps her house very neat

2. Pure; free from impure words and phrases; as a neat style.

3. Cleanly; preserving neatness; as a neat woman.

4. Pure; unadulterated; as neat wine.

5. Free from tawdry appendages and well adjusted; as a neat dress.

6. Clear of the cask, case, bag, box, _ c. ; as neat weight. It is usually written net or nett.

Neatherd

NEATHERD, noun A person who has the care of cattle; a cow-keeper.

Neatly

NEATLY, adverb

1. With neatness; in a neat manner; in a cleanly manner; as a garment neatly washed.

2. With good taste; without tawdry ornaments; as a lady neatly dressed.

3. Nicely; handsomely; as a vessel neatly gilt.

Neatness

NEATNESS, noun

1. Exact cleanliness; entire freedom from foul matter; as the neatness of a floor or of a garment.

2. Purity; freedom from ill chosen words; as the neatness of style.

3. Freedom from useless or tawdry ornaments; with good adjustment of the several parts; as the neatness of a dress.

Neatress

NEATRESS, noun [from neat, cattle] A female who takes care of cattle. [ Not used in the United States]